Thursday, July 25, 2013

Video Game Invasion



"Tennis for Two", William Higanbotham, 1958



Magnavox Odyssey, Ralph Baer, 1971



Pong, Allen Alcorn, 1972



Space Invaders, Tomohiro Nishikado, 1978

-First video game was a primitive version of tennis featuring moving dots, created by William Higanbothom.

-By 1966 Television was in every home, this created a buisness opportunity to attach gadets to the Television and created an early version of pong the first gaming system called odyssey 1971.

-1972 Nolan Bushnel used $500 to start his own company Atari, first game enhanced version of Pong and gave the game it’s name.

-Star wars came out ,Space invaders came out 1 year later, first game to introduce a high score.

-Pac Man created by Namco, first time a character was a star of a video game.

-1889 Nintendo came out, 1980 created a game with a story called “Stubborn Gorilla” or Donkey Kong

-Four of Atari’s top developers created own company Activision.

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