Personal History of Games
Well first i'll start with my own history of games.
The first console I can ever remember having was the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) but this was when i was very young and I barely remember it at all.
The console and games I remember playing the most is the Nintendo 64. I remember thinking how good the graphics were on these games (lol) and I also discovered my favourite game of all time (which is still my favourite game now), The Legend of Zelda, The Ocarina of Time. I still recognise all of the ocarina songs that are learned in the game.
However, another of my favourite games is Super Mario 64 although I could never complete it 100% by getting all the stars and I really wanted to see Yoshi on the roof of the castle to get my 100 lives :(
Most of my consoles have been by Nintendo although I did have a Playstation 2 at one point. I do plan to get an xbox 360 to start playing games with a higher "tri count" (if that's what it's called).
Games from 1950-1970s
Ok, first i'm going to do the boring thing and list the most important games that were created during this period and show the progression in this time. However, I will also talk about why these were created. I have peiced this information together using various websites.
1952- A.S. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.
1958- William Higinbotham created the first video game ever. His game was called "Tennis for Two" or "Ping-Pong." It is one of the first electrical games to use a graphical display. It was created to cure the boredom of visiters at The Brookhaven National Laboratory which is where he worked.
1962- Steve Russell invented SpaceWar! and it as the first game intended for computer use. This was created with intent to impliment it onto a computer called PDP-1 which is an early digital equipment corporation. The computer was orginally donated to the creaters of the game in hope that they would make something amazing for it however they didn't expect this game!
1967- Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Ralph Baer was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm.
1971- Nolan Bushnell together with Ted Dabney, created the first arcade game. It was called Computer Space, based on Steve Russell's earlier game of Spacewar!. This shows that computer games progressed.
1972- The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell (with help from Al Alcorn). Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers that same year. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game.
Therefore, Pong was the first video game able to be played at home and this is why it is the most well-known earliest game. However, from my research, I can now see that there are a few games invented beforehand that inspired this game to be made.
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