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History of Video Games: By: Héctor Muñoz-Avila Sources
History of Video Games: By: Héctor Muñoz-Avila Sources
Sources:
Gamespot.com
investor.about.com
emuunlim.com
designboom.com
Wikipedia
my own
Introduction
Some ideas in the 1948
First video game:
Tennis game in an Oscilloscope
Space game on DEC-1
In between:
Space Invaders: http://www.spaceinvaders.de/
Current videogames:
Half Life 2
Chess Origins
1769 Fake chess machine
1952 Turing design a chess
algorithm
1956 Maniac versus Human
Origins of Some Companies
1889 company create card game:
Nintendo (leave luck to heaven)
1932 COLECO (short for Connecticut Leather Company
Galaxy Game
Cost: $20K Galaxy Game
Play cost: 10 cent Built: 1.5K 1972
Built: dozens
PONG
Built: 10K
Breaks down
Early Games
Pong (http://www.apn.gr/pong.html)
1972 Magnavox builds Odyssey
Early Stages: 1976-1977
COLECO builds TELSTAR