Although video games may seem like a relatively recent phenomenon, the medium has actually been around, in various different forms, since the 1940s. It’s not all that shocking then, that the past eighty-odd years have been somewhat eventful for the games industry, what with all of the technological innovations, introductions of legendary characters and franchises, and, of course, more controversies than you could shake a WiiMote at. Here are the 101 Biggest Games Industry Moments of All Time.

Biggest Games Industry Moments include:
• $299
• All of Jack Thompson's Bulls**t
• Assassin's Creed Unity's Horrific Launch
• Atari Sued by Magnavox
• Billy Mitchell, Alleged Donkey Kong Cheat
• Cyberpunk 2077's Disastrous Launch
• Dark Souls Launches the Soulslike
• Death Race Pulled for Being Too Violent
• Digital Homicide Studios Tries to Sue Stephanie Sterling
• Doom and Duke Nukem 3D Blamed for Columbine Massacre
• E.T. Kills the Games Industry
• E-Sports Uses Players PCs to Mine BitCoin
• Fallout 76's Lack of NPCs
• Final Fantasy VII Remake Trailer
• Fox News vs Mass Effect
• Gamergate
• Godus and Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube?
• Guitar Hero III Grosses $1 Billion
• Hot Coffee
• Is this an out of season April Fool’s joke?
• Keanu Reeves' E3 Appearance
• Kinectimals
• Konami & Kojima's Break-Up
• Leeroy Jenkins
• Mario's Debut as Jumpman
• Mario's First 3D Outing
• Mass Effect 3’s Ending and BioWare’s Fall
• Microsoft Joins the Game
• Microsoft Launches the Adaptive Controller
• Microsoft’s Car Crash E3 2013 Conference
• Milo's Reveal
• Minecraft Takes the World by Storm
• My Body is Ready
• NCAA Athletes Sue EA
• Nintendo Gain Rights to Tetris
• No Man's Lies
• No Russian
• On-Disc DLC
• Ouya
• P.T. and Reveal of Silent Hills
• PlayStation
• PlayStation 2: Electric Boogaloo
• Polybius
• Pong
• Release of MagnaVox Odyssey
• Sega vs. Nintendo: First Console War
• Sexual Harassment at Activision Blizzard
• Six Days in Fallujah Sparks Outrage
• Sonic the Hedgehog’s Debut
• Sony vs. Microsoft: The Second Console War
• Sora's Super Smash Bros. Reveal
• Spacewar!
• Speedo-Clad Himbos in Simcopter
• Star Citizen Becomes the Biggest Budget Game of All Time
• Starcraft II Match-Fixing
• Steam
• Strachey's Draughts and OXO
• Telltale Closes its Doors
• Tetris Launches
• The Atari 2600
• The Battle Royale Boom
• The Corrupted Blood Incident
• The COVID-19 Pandemic Causes Video Game Sales to Hit an All-Time High
• The Dead Island Trailer
• The EA Loot Box Scandal
• The Emergence of 3D Graphics
• The Emergence of eSports
• The Emergence of NFTs
• The Firing of Jeff Gerstmann
• The Formation of the ESRB
• The GameStop Short Squeeze
• The Grand Theft Auto VI Leak
• The Half-Life 2 Leak
• The Introduction of Memory Cards
• The Introduction of Microtransactions
• The Introduction of Online Multiplayer
• The Introduction of the Save Feature
• The Last of Us: Part II Leaks
• The Last of Us: Part I's Horrendous PC Port
• The Launch of Space Invaders
• The Launch of the Nintendo Wii
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Earns Highest Ever Average Review Score
• The Link Between Violence and Video Games Debunked
• The NES Launches
• The Nimatron
• The PS5 and Xbox Series Shortage
• The PSN Hack
• The Release of DOOM
• The Release of Game Boy
• The Rise of Livestreaming
• The Rise of Mobile Gaming
• The Rise of the MMO
• The Rise of VR
• The Switch Marks Nintendo’s Triumphant Return
• The World is Engulfed by Pokémon Go Fever
• The World of Warcraft Deaths
• Universal vs. Nintendo
• Watch Dogs' Trailer
• Wii Music’s Cringeworthy E3 Presentation
• Wordle Goes Viral
• Xbox 360 and PS3’s Fumbled Launch Race

VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin) & Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude) & Ashton Matthews (@ScrambledAshton)
Script: Cat Elliott
Video Editor: Lean Bacalzo (@LeanBacalzo) & Leonardo Bacalzo

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