History of Early Video Gaming (all image credit to this here webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game)
By odol
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The First Video Game!
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a patent for the first video game, what they described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device." The patent detailed a machine in which a player uses knobs and tubes to shoot air-borne targets. Unfortunately, it was never released to the public and only home-made re-creations are avalible. The picture is of Thomas Goldberg. -
OXO Created!
(The excact date is unknown, so I just put in christmas) In this game (created by A.S.Douglas) is tic-tac-toe for the computer. The player plays against a computer. -
Tennis For Two!
Tennis for Two, the first widespread game, was created by William Higinbotham in 1958. (image credit to grand text auto.com) -
SPACEWAR!!!!
Spacewar, created by a group of MIT students, is credited as the first influential computer game, pitting two players against each other in an arena in space, where the players had to destroy the others ship while trying to avoid a largestar in the center of the arena. -
Console of AWESOME!
In 1966, Ralph Baer engaged co-worker Bill Harrison in the project, where they both worked at military electronics contractor Sanders Associates in Nashua, New Hampshire. They created a simple video game named Chase, the first to display on a standard television set. With the assistance of Baer, Bill Harrison created the light gun. Baer and Harrison were joined by Bill Rusch in 1967, a MIT graduate who was subsequently awarded with several patents for TV gaming. -
Space Travel!
In 1969, AT&T computer programmer Ken Thompson wrote a video game called Space Travel for the Multics operating system. This game simulated various bodies of the solar system and their movements and the player could attempt to land a spacecraft on them. (ken on left, friend Dennis on left) -
Atari and Pong
Bushnell and Dabney founded Atari, Inc. in 1972, before releasing their next game: Pong. Pong was the first arcade video game with widespread success. The game is loosely based on table tennis: a ball is "served" from the center of the court and as the ball moves towards their side of the court each player must maneuver their paddle to hit the ball back to their opponent. Atari sold over 19,000 Pong machines, -
Hunt the wumpus!
A map-based text adventure game called Hunt the Wumpus, created by Gregory Yob. In this game the player was an adventurer who was searching for gold, who was being hunted by a monster, the wumpus. The goal of the game was to kill the wumpus and not die. -
GUN fIGHT
Another significant game was Gun Fight, an on-foot, multi-directional shooter, designed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released by Taito in 1975.It depicted game characters, game violence, and human-to-human combat, controlled using dual-stick controls.The original Japanese version was based on discrete logic, which Dave Nutting adapted for Midway's American release using the Intel 8080, making it the first video game to use a microprocessor. -
First RPG
the first Role Playing Game, Dungeon, was created. -
Zork!
The First PC text adventure game! -
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF VIDEO-GAMES
The crash of home-consoles and video games in general was when almost all platforms got flooded with Pong clones, the world was getting bored. Most consoles abandoned their projects, only Atari and Magnavox survived. -
Rougue!
Another text-adventure, this one was the first to have randomly-generated, well, anything in it. The paths and enemys were always different.
