By generation | Early history • First (1972–1977) • Second (1976–1984) • Third (1983–1992) • Fourth (1987–1996) • Fifth (1993–2006) • Sixth (1998–2005) • Seventh (2005-) • Eighth (2012–) • Ninth (2017-) | ||||||||||
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By system | Arcade game history (Golden age of arcade video games • Timeline of arcade video game history) • Video game console history • North American video game crash of 1983 • PC game history | ||||||||||
By genre |
Starting visibility: currently automatically selects itself to autocollapse
To set this template's starting visibility, the |state=
parameter may be used:
|state=collapsed
: ((History of video games|state=collapsed))
to show the template collapsed, i.e., hidden apart from its title bar|state=expanded
: ((History of video games|state=expanded))
to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible|state=autocollapse
: ((History of video games|state=autocollapse))
If the |state=
parameter in the template on this page is not set, the template's starting visibility is taken from the |default=
parameter in the Collapsible option template. For the template on this page, that currently evaluates to autocollapse
.