Time before the Videogames – The Origins

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How did video games come into being?

Long before video games flickered across screens, it was a very long way through history. Far before Mario and Zelda, the computer had to be invented, before the microchip, the transitor had to be developed, and before a screen could be used to display video games.
To honor the value of these many achievements, the history of video games will be presented in small steps. Each invention was a step towards what led to the 4k graphics and 3D acceleration of the modern era. Feel free to click through the milestones of video game and computer game history.

This subpage is intended to present the history of the first mechanical computing systems from 1623. The theoretical predecessor of the later computers.

This section is to report on the history of chess automatons. These were preceded by the desire of an AI.

Before video games came into existence, a market for electric mechanical games had developed until at some point it became a computer game.

At the time of the war, mainframes were created that performed tasks that humans could not do as quickly.

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