Video games started fifty years ago, when pinball wizards first learned about Pong. Author Jeff Ryan (Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America; History Channel's Toys the Built America and Crackle's Playing With Power) profiles the 50 most influential games of all time, one per year. Take a stroll down memory card lane to find out how early '70s games laid the foundation, why the 8-bit '80s are so fondly remembered, how the Nintendo-fied '90s games brought gaming to the mainstream, how the '00s made gaming the dominant media form in the world, and how the '10s made it an art. Gaming trivia and history will be thrown by the flaming barrelful.
