Games • Pokémon • Nintendo • Sonic • Disney • LEGO • Computers & more!
| 1928 | 🐭 | Mickey Mouse is born — Steamboat Willie is one of the first cartoons with sound, and Walt Disney did Mickey's voice himself. |
| 1932 | 🧱 | LEGO begins — carpenter Ole Kirk starts making wooden toys in Denmark; "LEGO" means "play well" in Danish. |
| 1935 | 🎩 | Monopoly — the buy-streets-and-collect-rent board game launches and is still played in over 100 countries. |
| 1937 | 👑 | Snow White — the first full-length animated movie ever; artists drew about 250,000 pictures by hand. |
| 1946 | 💻 | ENIAC computer — an early computer as big as a classroom and weighing about 30 tons — more than 4 elephants! |
| 1955 | 🏰 | Disneyland opens — the first Disney park opens in California; Walt Disney showed it live on TV on opening day. |
| 1958 | 🧱 | The LEGO brick — the click-together brick is patented; bricks from 1958 still fit bricks made today. |
| 1960 | 💛 | Grandma Luda is born — happy birthday, Babusya Luda! 🎂 |
| 1971 | 🎢 | Walt Disney World — the giant Florida resort opens; today it's the most-visited theme park place on Earth. |
| 1972 | 🕹️ | First home console — the Magnavox Odyssey brings video games to home TVs for the very first time. |
| 1972 | 🏓 | Pong — Atari's simple TV tennis game becomes the first big arcade video game hit. |
| 1977 | 🎮 | Atari 2600 — swap game cartridges to play many games on one console — a huge new idea back then. |
| 1978 | 🧍 | LEGO minifigure — the smiling yellow figures appear; billions have been made — more than people on Earth! |
| 1980 | 👾 | Pac-Man — waka-waka! The dot-munching hero chased by 4 ghosts becomes an arcade superstar. |
| 1981 | 🖥️ | The IBM PC — personal computers arrive in homes and offices, starting the modern computer age. |
| 1981 | 🦍 | Mario appears — a hero called "Jumpman" rescues a friend in Donkey Kong — he's soon renamed Mario. |
| 1983 | 🎮 | Nintendo Famicom / NES — Nintendo's first home console launches in Japan and later saves gaming in America. |
| 1984 | 🧩 | Tetris — the falling-blocks puzzle becomes one of the most played games in history. |
| 1985 | 🍄 | Super Mario Bros. — Mario runs, jumps and eats mushrooms to save Princess Peach — over 40 million copies sold. |
| 1986 | 💙 | Papa Oleksandr is born — Dad's birthday year! 🎉 |
| 1987 | 💗 | Mama Viktoria is born — Mom's birthday year! 🎉 |
| 1989 | 📟 | Game Boy — Nintendo's pocket console runs weeks on AA batteries and comes with Tetris. |
| 1989 | 🎮 | Sega Genesis — Sega's 16-bit console starts the famous "console war" against Nintendo. |
| 1991 | 🦔 | Sonic the Hedgehog — Sega's super-fast blue hedgehog collects golden rings and becomes Sega's mascot. |
| 1992 | 🕹️ | Dendy — an NES-style console that made video games famous for kids in Ukraine and nearby countries. |
| 1992 | 🏎️ | Super Mario Kart — Mario and friends race go-karts and throw shells — the start of a legendary series. |
Pokémon • Minecraft • Roblox • Nintendo Switch • ChatGPT • Sonic Movies
| 1996 | 🔴 | Pokémon begins — Pokémon Red & Green launch in Japan on Game Boy with the first 151 Pokémon. |
| 1996 | 🃏 | Pokémon Cards launch — the Trading Card Game starts in Japan; over 50 billion cards have been printed since. |
| 1997 | 📺 | Pokémon cartoon — Ash and Pikachu begin their TV adventures — more than 1,200 episodes and counting. |
| 1998 | ⚡ | Pokémon in the USA — Red & Blue arrive in America with the slogan "Gotta Catch 'Em All!" — Pokémania begins. |
| 1999 | 🌟 | Pokémon Cards (USA) — the Base Set launches in English; the shiny Charizard becomes the card everyone wants. |
| 1999 | 🚀 | LEGO Star Wars — LEGO's first movie team-up; X-wings and the Millennium Falcon become brick sets. |
| 2004 | 📱 | Nintendo DS — two screens plus a touchscreen and stylus — it becomes one of the best-selling consoles ever. |
| 2006 | 🎾 | Nintendo Wii — swing the remote to play tennis and bowling; grandparents and kids play together. |
| 2006 | 🟥 | Roblox — a world of millions of games made by players themselves — you can build your own too. |
| 2009 | 🌻 | Plants vs. Zombies — sunflowers make sun, pea-shooters fire peas, and zombies never reach your house. |
| 2010 | 🍌 | Minions arrive — Gru's silly yellow helpers appear in Despicable Me, speaking their own "Minionese" language. |
| 2011 | 🟩 | Minecraft — build anything block by block; it becomes the best-selling video game in history. |
| 2016 | 📲 | Pokémon GO — catch Pokémon outside in the real world with your phone; millions of players walk everywhere. |
| 2017 | 🎮 | Nintendo Switch — a console AND a handheld in one — dock it to the TV or take it on a trip. |
| 2017 | 🌟 | Mikey is born! — a brand-new superstar joins the family — same year as the Nintendo Switch! 🎈 |
| 2020 | 🎬 | Sonic the Hedgehog movie — Sonic races onto the big screen and it becomes a huge video-game movie hit. |
| 2022 | 🎬 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 — Tails flies in and Knuckles fights Sonic before joining the team. |
| 2022 | 🤖 | ChatGPT launches — an AI you can chat with; it reaches 100 million users faster than any app before it. |
| 2022 | ✨ | Leo is born! — welcome to the world, Leo — same year ChatGPT was born too! 🎈 |
| 2023 | 🧠 | GPT-4 — a much smarter ChatGPT that can even understand pictures, not just words. |
| 2023 | 🟣 | Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Cards — a big new card era begins with shiny "ex" Pokémon cards. |
| 2024 | 🎬 | Sonic the Hedgehog 3 — Shadow the Hedgehog appears — Sonic's fastest and toughest rival yet. |
| 2025 | 🎉 | Nintendo Switch 2 — a bigger, more powerful Switch with Mario Kart World — fastest-selling console ever. |