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History of video games
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Chronology of video games
Early history
  • 1947–1972
1970s
  • 1971
  • 1972
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1975
  • 1976
  • 1977
  • 1978
  • 1979
1980s
  • 1980
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1985
  • 1986
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
1990s
  • 1990
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1993
  • 1994
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
2000s
  • 2000
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
  • 2009
2010s
  • 2010
  • 2011
  • 2012
  • 2013
  • 2014
  • 2015
  • 2016
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
2020s
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • 2022
  • 2023
  • 2024
  • Near future
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Video game history by platform
By platform
  • Early mainframe games
  • History of arcade video games
    • Golden age
    • Timeline
  • History of video game consoles
    • Video game crash of 1983
    • Console war
  • History of mobile games
By console generation
  • First (1972–1980)
  • Second (1976–1992)
  • Third (1983–2003)
  • Fourth (1987–2003)
  • Fifth (1993–2005)
  • Sixth (1998–2013)
  • Seventh (2005–2017)
  • Eighth (2012–)
  • Ninth (2020–)
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Video game genres
  • List of video game genres
Action
Shooter
  • Arena
  • First-person
  • Hero
  • Light gun
  • Shoot 'em up
    • Bullet hell
    • Rail
    • Twin-stick
  • Tactical
  • Third-person
Other
  • Beat 'em up
    • Hack and slash
  • Fighting
    • Platform fighter
  • Maze
    • Pac-Man clone
  • Platformer
    • Endless runner
    • Platform fighter
  • Snake
  • Stealth
  • Survival
    • Battle royale
Action-adventure
  • Grand Theft Auto clone
  • Metroidvania
Adventure
  • Escape room
  • Graphic adventure
  • Interactive fiction
  • Interactive film
  • Visual novel
  • Walking sim
Digital tabletop
  • Deck-building
    • Roguelike deck-building
  • Digital collectible card
Horror
  • Survival horror
Role-playing
ARPG
  • Looter shooter
  • Soulslike
Other
  • Dungeon crawl
  • Monster-taming
  • Roguelike
    • Roguelike deck-building
  • Tactical role-playing
Simulation
Sports
  • Fishing
  • Racing
    • Kart racing
    • Sim racing
Vehicle
  • Flight simulation
    • Combat
    • Space
    • Lunar Lander
  • Submarine simulator
  • Train simulator
  • Vehicular combat
Other
  • Construction and management
    • Business
    • City-building
    • Government
  • Falling-sand
  • Immersive sim
  • Life simulation
    • Dating sim
    • Farm life sim
    • God
    • Social simulation
    • Virtual pet
Strategy
  • 4X
  • Auto battler
  • MOBA
  • Real-time strategy
    • Time management
  • Real-time tactics
  • Tactical role-playing
  • Tower defense
  • Turn-based strategy
  • Turn-based tactics
    • Artillery
  • Wargame
    • Grand strategy
Other genres
  • Fitness
  • Incremental
  • Music
    • Rhythm
  • Non-game
  • Party
  • Photography
  • Programming
  • Puzzle
    • Hidden object
    • Sokoban
    • Tile-matching
  • Typing
Related concepts
Themes
  • Advergame
  • Bishōjo
  • Christian
  • Comedy
  • Educational
  • Girls
  • Licensed
  • Otome
  • Sexual
    • Eroge
  • Nonviolent
  • Personalized
  • Sci-fi
  • Serious
    • Art
Player modes
  • Multiplayer
    • Co-op
    • PVP
  • Single-player
Production
  • AAA
  • Indie
    • Doujin soft
    • Fan game
Technology
  • Arcade
  • Console
  • Geolocation-based
  • Mobile
  • Online
    • Browser
    • Cloud
    • MMO
      • MMOFPS
      • MMORPG
      • MMORTS
    • Social network
  • PC
    • Linux
    • Mac
  • Virtual reality
Design
  • Casual
    • Hypercasual
  • Emergent gameplay
  • FMV
  • Kaizo
  • Masocore
  • Nonlinear gameplay
    • Open world
    • Sandbox
  • Side-scrolling
  • Twitch gameplay
  • Vertically scrolling
Other
  • Minigame
  • Toys-to-life
  • Video game clone
  • Video game modding
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Video games by country
Africa
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • South Africa
Americas
  • Latin America (* Brazil * Colombia)
  • Canada
  • United States
Asia
  • Bangladesh
  • China
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Malaysia
  • Philippines
  • Russia
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
Europe
  • Belgium
  • Czech Republic
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Lithuania
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom
Oceania
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
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