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westinghouse
Westinghouse display at the world fair, Edward U. Condone designed a compute that plays the classic game nim, in which players try to avoid picking up the last matchstick. tens of thousand people played it, and the compute wins 90% of the game. -
first digital computer
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1954
programs at new Mexico's los Almos laboratories, the birthplace of the atomic bomb, developed the first blackjack programed on a imb-701 computer -
medium scale integration
By 1970, the introduction of medium scale integration (MSI) transistor–transistor logic (TTL) circuits combining multiple transistors on a single microchip had resulted significant reduction -
Table tennis
In 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney decided to strike out on their own and incorporated their preexisting partnership as Atari. After seeing a demonstration of the Magnavox Odyssey ahead of its release, Bushnell charged new hire Allan Alcorn to create a version of that system's table tennis game as a practice project to familiarize himself with video game design -
market collapse
The ball-and-paddle market collapsed in 1974 due to market saturation. -
New games
Larger companies like Atari and Midway turned to new genres to remain successful, mostly racing games, one-on-one dueling games, and target shooting games. Early hits in these genres included Gran Trak 10 (1974) and Tank (1974) from Atari, and Wheels (1975), Gun Fight, (1975) and Sea Wolf (1976) from Midway. -
New games 2
Larger companies like Atari and Midway turned to new genres to remain successful, mostly racing games, one-on-one dueling games, and target shooting games. Like, Tank (1974) from Atari, and Wheels (1975), Gun Fight, (1975) and Sea Wolf (1976) from Midway.
