Playing video games is something a lot of us do in our free time. Boys and girls, kids and adults alike play games. Gaming is something that can be enjoyed by many different people. But have you ever wondered where it all began? What was gaming like when it all started?
Where it All Began:
Willy Higinbotham was a scientist who worked and lived during World War II. He created a computer game that resembles tennis called Tennis for Two on a device called an oscilloscope (what we use to monitor heartbeats), just for fun. The game was exhibited at the Brookhaven National Library in 1958 and was not exciting at all.
Fast-forward to 1961, Steve Russell or ‘Slug‘ as he was fondly known in the gaming world, created Spacewar. The major problem was that the computer that ran the game cost over $120 000 that would be $1 209 000 today!
High Scores and Arcade difficulty:
Jumping ahead to 1971, we enter the true age of television. Ralph Baer invented a machine on which two players can play games directly on a television screen. He called it The Magnavox Odyssey.
In 1972, Nolan Bushnell started his own video game company called Atari. The first arcade video game that used scorekeeping which created difficulty in games, Pong became an immediate success.
It was at this time that the world was falling in love with more than just regular games. After the release of the first Star Wars movie a company named Midway Games invented the first game that recorded high scores. The game was called Space Invaders.
Video games and their history are very interesting. Did you know that, that Supernova issue 4.6 is full of all sorts of
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