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History of Video Games

By: Hctor Muoz-Avila

Sources: Gamespot.com investor.about.com emuunlim.com designboom.com Wikipedia

my own


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Introduction

Some ideas in the 1948

First video game: Tennis game in an Oscilloscope

Space game on DEC-1

Current videogames: Half Life 2

In between:

Space Invaders: http://www.spaceinvaders.de/


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Chess Origins

1769 Fake chess machine

1952 Turing design a chessalgorithm

1956 Maniac versus Human


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Origins of Some Companies

1889 company create card game:

1932 COLECO (short for Connecticut Leather Company

1947 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company:

1954 David Rosen makes machines for GIs in Japan

Sony

Nintendo (leave luck to heaven)

(Service Games) SEGA


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Other Origins

1951 Ralph Baer (@Loral) suggest adding game

to TV

May be considered the inventor of video

games Only until 1967 he realized his dream of an

intereactive television

1952 A.S.Douglas (@Cambridge): Interactive Tic

Tac Toe

1958 Willy Higinbotham (@brookhaven national

laboratory): Oscilloscope


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Other Origins (II)

1961 Steve Russell (@MIT) creates space war

If I hadn't done it, someone would've

done something equally exciting if not

better in the next six months. I justhappened to get there first.

- Steve Russell


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Space War Legacy

1971 Bill Pitts andHugh Tuck formedComputer Recreations

Galaxy Game

Cost: $20KPlay cost: 10 centBuilt: dozens

1972 Noland Bushnelland Ted Dabney(@Nutting Associates)

Galaxy Game

Built: 1.5K 1972

PONG

Built: 10KBreaks down


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Early Games

Pong (http://www.apn.gr/pong.html)

1972 Magnavox builds Odyssey


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Early Stages: 1976-1977

COLECO builds TELSTAR

Cartridges are born (Fairchild Camera & Instrument: Channel F)

Atari bought by Warner Communications ($28M)

Atari releases first console (later known as Atari 2600)


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Early Stages 1977-78

Nintendo releases Othello (http://www.mattelothello.com/)

Taito creates Space Invaders!

Midway bought license

Apple and Atari release PCs

But Atari is seen as a gaming company


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The Golden Age 1979-1981

Atari releases Asteroids!

Frogger, Konami/Sega, 1981

Pac-Man, Bally/Midway, 1980

Donkey Kong, Nintendo, 1981

Namco releases Pac-Man, 1982 (+300K machines sold)

Own television show

US Army commissions Atari for a tank simulation game

Start of a long enduring activity (Lehigh included!)

Nintendo releases first console in 1981

http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/


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The Great Crash 1982-1984

The Commodore 64 PC is released

Coleco releases the Adam PC

Too many competitors small and large saturate the market

1982 Warner Corp. stock fell 32% after Atariannounces les-that-expected sells of consoles

Atari sold to Jack Tramiel (owner of Commodore)

New company: Atari Corp. pulls from Console market

Bright spot: Nintendo releases famicon does well in Japan


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The Return of the Video Games 1985-1988

Nintendo releases NES

Met with skepticism by market observers

Turns out to be an instant hit

Legend of Zelda

http://www.nintendoland.com/zelda/home.htm

Apple releases the Mac, Atari releases 520ST

Who won?

Tetris is released!

http://www.miniclip.com/tetris.htm

Coleco files for bankruptcy

1985 MS releases

Windows

PC as a gaming

platform


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The Story Continues

1989 Nintendo releases Gameboy, Sega releasesGenesis

1991 Nintendo releases SNES, Sega releases Sonic

1993 32-bit consoles

Nintendo releases Mortal Combat!

1999-2001 Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox


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Whats Left?

PC Games

We will cover these in coming classes but byGenre:

FPS

RTS

RPG (including MMO)

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