25 Pictures From The History Of Video Games
Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, 16, become the first winner of the Fortnite World Cup and recipient of $3 million in cash prizes. Here's a look back at how video games have evolved from Pong to a billion-dollar esports industry.
Liverpool FC and England footballer Steve Heighway and a woman play Pong on the Videomaster game console Sept. 26, 1977.
The Video Battle Centre, a video arcade on the corner of Rupert and Brewer streets in London's Soho neighborhood, circa 1979.
Musician Steve Strange plays an arcade game at Club Hell in London in 1980.
A group of teens play a game on a Commodore computer at a store in Nuremberg, Germany, on May 8, 1984.
Schoolgirls in Paris play a Game Boy in 1991.
A man plays Tetris on the Nintendo Entertainment System in New York in 1990.
Boys looking at the new 16-bit NES on display at a Toys 'R' Us store in 1991.
Sen. Joe Lieberman holds a video game gun controller during a joint hearing of the Senate Government Affairs and Judiciary committees in Washington, DC, on Dec. 9, 1993, to discuss violent-theme video games.
Peter Parles, a product development coordinator for Viacom New Media, plays the new MTV Beavis and Butt-Head video game at the Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago on June 23, 1994.
The "Nintendo Super Tour '93" video game championship at the toy fair in Villepinte, France.
A boy plays Sonic the Hedgehog on a Sega game system in Paris on Feb. 22, 1993.
Workers in North Bend, Washington, unload boxes of Nintendo's new 64-bit video game system on Oct. 24, 1996.
Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. Herb Kohl watch a video game during a news conference in Washington, DC, where they discussed a survey on video game ratings, on Dec. 5, 1996.
Gamers test out the game Ape Escape at the Sony exhibit booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on May 13, 1999.
Dwayne Johnson speaks with Bill Gates after Gates unveiled the new Xbox video game console at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2001.
A woman shops for video games at a Best Buy store in Marin City, California, on Nov. 26, 2002.
Players compete on titles such as Counter Strike, Black Hawk Down, WarCraft, and Medal of Honor across a LAN network during a gaming summit in Osnabrueck, Germany, on May 3, 2003.
The next-generation Xbox 360 is on display during the Tokyo Game Show 2005 on Sept. 16, 2005, in Chiba, Japan.
Margarete Roeder is instructed by volunteer Markus Deindl on how to play Nintendo Wii bowling at the Malhaelden seniors home in Pforzheim, Germany, on Aug. 4, 2008.
President Barack Obama purchases Just Dance 3 for the Wii while shopping at a Best Buy in Alexandria, Virginia, on Dec. 21, 2011.
Players test out the PlayStation VR accessories during the T-Mobile Warsaw Games Week on Oct. 13, 2016, in Warsaw.
People play Pokémon Go on their smartphones in Yokohama, Japan, on Aug. 9, 2017.
A player competes during Wargaming Fest in Moscow on Dec. 23, 2017.
Richard Tyler Blevins (onscreen), aka Ninja, speaks to the crowd at the start of the 2019 Fortnite World Cup Finals on July 27 in New York City.
Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf, 16, celebrates after winning the Fortnite World Cup solo final on July 28 in New York City.
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Gabriel H. Sanchez is the photo essay editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York City.
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