20th century

===Video games===
[[File:Magnavox-Odyssey-Console-Set.jpg|thumb|[[Ralph Baer]]'s ''[[Magnavox Odyssey]]'', the first video game console, released in 1972.]]
{{main|History of video games}}
Video games—due to the great technological steps forward in [[computing]] since the second [[post-war]] period—are one of the new forms of entertainment that emerged in the 20th century alongside films.
* While already conceptualized in the [[1940s]]–[[1950s|50s]], video games only emerged as an industry during the [[1970s]], and then exploded into social and cultural phenomena in the late 1970s and early [[1980s]] with the [[golden age of arcade video games]], with notable releases such as [[Taito]]'s ''[[Space Invaders]]'', [[Atari, Inc.]]'s ''[[Asteroids (video game)|Asteroids]]'', [[Nintendo]]'s ''[[Donkey Kong (arcade game)|Donkey Kong]]'', [[Namco]]'s ''[[Pac-Man]]'' and ''[[Galaga]]'', [[Konami]]'s ''[[Frogger]]'', [[Capcom]]'s ''[[1942 (video game)|1942]]'' and [[Sega]]'s ''[[Zaxxon]]'',<ref name="Whittaker-122">{{citation|title=The cyberspace handbook|author=Jason Whittaker|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2004|isbn=978-0-415-16835-9|page=122}}</ref> the worldwide success of [[Nintendo]]'s ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-05-18/features/1993138174_1_mario-nintendo-mickey-mouse |title=How Mario Conquered America |first=James |last=Coates |date=May 18, 1993 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |access-date=February 7, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20151123103152/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-05-18/features/1993138174_1_mario-nintendo-mickey-mouse |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and the release in the [[1990s]] of [[Sony]] [[PlayStation (console)|PlayStation]] console, the first one to break the record of 100 million units sold, with ''[[Gran Turismo (1997 video game)|Gran Turismo]]'' being the system's best selling video game.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/051130e.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103211119/http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/051130e.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2006|title=PlayStation 2 Breaks Record as the Fastest Computer Entertainment Platform to Reach Cumulative Shipment of 100 Million Units|date=30 November 2005|publisher=[[Sony Computer Entertainment]]|access-date=8 June 2008}}</ref>
* [[Video game design]] becomes a discipline. Some game designers in this century stand out for their work, such as [[Shigeru Miyamoto]], [[Hideo Kojima]], [[Sid Meier]] and [[Will Wright (game designer)|Will Wright]].