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Order by year of first release. You place all 108 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the video games timeline game works

The cards here are landmark video games across every genre, from arcade classics and console platformers to shooters, MMOs, indie hits and mobile sensations. You order them by the year each first released, with the developer or publisher printed beneath the title. One game starts on the timeline with its year visible. Read each new card and pick the gap it belongs in. A correct placement reveals the year, and a miss still puts the game in its true spot but costs one of three lives.

It runs from the earliest days of home and arcade gaming to recent indie breakouts, so you'll jump between eras constantly. The newer half is the crowded one, with one-person indie projects landing right beside blockbuster studio releases. The studio name is a real clue if you know which companies were around when. Long-running online games trip people up: they've been played for so long that it's easy to forget when they started.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 3,690 times. An average run places 7.7 cards, and 72% of all placements land in the right spot. Only 5 runs have ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • SimCity missed 69% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Myst missed 68% of the time, usually by about 3 places
  • Warcraft: Orcs & Humans missed 51% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is Pong, placed right 96% of the time.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 108 cards you might be dealt, with 80 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Pong Atari
  • Pac-Man Namco
  • Tetris Alexey Pajitnov
  • The Legend of Zelda Nintendo
  • Tecmo Bowl Tecmo
  • Sonic the Hedgehog Sega
  • Myst Cyan
  • Diablo Blizzard
  • Resident Evil Capcom
  • Half-Life Valve
  • Counter-Strike Valve
  • Animal Crossing Nintendo
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee HAL Laboratory
  • Katamari Damacy Namco
  • Gears of War Epic Games
  • Portal Valve
  • Angry Birds Rovio
  • Dark Souls FromSoftware
  • Candy Crush Saga King
  • Papers, Please Lucas Pope
  • Hearthstone Blizzard
  • Overwatch Blizzard
  • Fortnite Battle Royale Epic Games
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Nintendo
  • Disco Elysium ZA/UM
  • Fall Guys Mediatonic
  • Elden Ring FromSoftware
  • The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo

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