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Sega
-In 1951 Sega (service games) was launched -Before the consoles hit the market, coin- operated arcade games ruled -
Magnavox Odyssey
-World's first game console
-340,000 units sold -Predates the Atari Pong home consoles -
Pong
-A coin-op arcade game by Atari Inc Based on table tennis
-First game to gain widespread popularity -
First Generation
-1972-1977 -
Gran Track 10
-A single-player racing arcade game by Atari
-Player races against the game clock, accumulating points
-Controls, steering wheel, shifter, accelerator, and brake pedals were all firsts for arcade games -
Maze Wars
-One of the first FPS
-Players wander in a maze, Used tile-based movement
and Other players are eyeballs that can be shot or harmed
-Players gain points for shooting other players and lose them for being shot -
Magnavox Odyssey
-1975-77
-Played cartridges
-Keyboard; used for educational games, selecting options, or programming
-First game was an instant classic: Quest for the Rings!
-Master Strategy Series – a fusion of board and video games
-Excellent speech synthesis unit -
Coleco Telstar
-By Coleco - AY-3-8500 chip -
APF TV Fun
-Pong clone manufactured by APF formally a electronics developer
-Four built-in games (Tennis, Hockey, Single Handball, and Squash)
-Limited success -
Second Generation
- Early 8-bit home consoles -1976-1983
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Second Generation
-1976-1983
-By the mid-1970s cartridges moved to CPU-based consoles
-Games now consisting of microprocessor-based code; games burned onto ROM chips mounted inside plastic cartridge casings that could be plugged into slots on the console
-Consumers could acquire large libraries of game cartridges -
Fairchild Channel F
-The world's second cartridge-based video game console, after the Magnavox Odyssey
-Originally called Video Entertainment System (VES), but when Atari released VCS, it was renamed
-Sold for $169.95 -
Atari 2600
-Popularized game cartridges - popular in the 1980s
-Originally Atari VCS; later changed to "Atari 2600" in 1982, after the release of Atari 5200 -
Chuck E Cheese’s
-First family entertainment centers aimed at young children
-Pizza restaurant with arcade games, amusement rides, an animatronics show, climbing equipment, tubes, and slides
-Helped improve the image of video games -
Space Invaders (1 of 2)
-Created in Japan - later licensed in US
-Shooting game - players defeat waves of aliens with a laser and earn points
-So successful it caused a temporary shortage of coins in Japan -
Space Invaders (2 of 2)
-Grossed $2 billion worldwide by 1982
-Pixilated alien has become a pop culture icon, often used as a symbol representing video games as a whole -
Intellivision
-Four games available and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack
-First to pose a serious threat to Atari
-By 1982 over two million had been sold, earning Mattel a $100,000,000 profit
-By Mattel Electronics at $299 -
Asteroids
-Popular and influential game - 70,000 sold by Atari
-Vector display and 2D view
-Control a spaceship in an asteroid field traversed by flying saucers
-Object - shoot asteroids and saucers while not colliding or being hit by counter-fire -
Pac Man (1 of 2)
-Namco - considered among the most famous arcade games of all time
-Became a social phenomenon that sold related merchandise and inspired an animated television series and a top-ten hit single -
Pac Man (2 of 2)
-Appealed to both genders
-Generated more than $2.5 billion in quarters by the 1990s
-Highest brand awareness of any video game character
