"Drawing on the World Video Game Hall of Fame's unmatched collection of video game artifacts, this fascinating history offers an expansive look at the development of one of the most popular and influential activities of the modern world: video gaming."--Amazon

This history of video games takes readers from 1947's "Humpty Dumpty" which revolutionized pinball, to 2016's indie game That dragon, Cancer which took players into a hospital room, attempting to help the developer calm his son's suffering from the effects of terminal cancer. Along the way readers will discover a new perspective on the games that shaped the field's development and ultimated changed how we play

• Humpty Dumpty (1947)
• Tennis for two (1958)
• John Burgeson's baseball game (1960)
• Digi-comp computer (1963)
• Sumerian game (1964)
• Ralph Baer's brown box (1967)
• Nintendo love tester (1969)
• Computer space (1971)
• The Oregon trail (1971)
• "Spacewar : fanatic life and symbolic death among the computer bums" in Rolling Stone (1972)
• Magnavox odyssey (1972)
• Magnavox mini theater (1972)
• Pong (1972)
• 101 BASIC computer games (1973)
• Dungeons & dragons (1974)
• Home pong (1975)
• Breakout (1976)
• Fairchild channel F (1976)
• Death race (1976)
• Atari video computer system (1977)
• Mattel football (1977)
• Zork (1977)
• Simon (1978)
• Space invaders (1978)
• Adventureland (1978)
• Speak & spell (1978)
• Asteriods (1979)
• Ralph Baer's light anti-tank weapon (1979)
• Pac-Man (1980)
• Missile command (1980)
• Donkey kong (1981)
• Utopia (1981)
• River raid (1982)
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• One-on-one : Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983)
• Pinball construction set (1983)
• King's quest (1984)
• Tetris (1984)
• Nintendo entertainment system (1985)
• Super Mario bros. (1985)
• The legend of Zelda (1986)
• NES hands free controller (1989)
• Prince of Persia (1989)
• John Madden football (1990)
• Street fighter II (1991)
• Sonic the hedgehog (1991)
• Mortal kombat (1992)
• Doom (1993)
• Myst (1993)
• Nintendo virtual boy (1995)
• Pok??mon (1995)
• The Sims (2000)
• Grand theft auto III (2001)
• Halo : combat evolved (2001)
• Densha de go! Contorller (2002)
• World of warcraft (2004)
• Wii remote (2006)
• Call of duty : modern warfare 2 (2009)
• Minecraft (2011)
• Skylanders (2011)
• Nancy Drew : tomb of the lost queen (2012)
• Pok??mon Go (2016)
• That dragon, cancer (2016)