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Tennis For Two
Tennis For Two LinkWilly Higinbotham invents the first video game, Tennis For Two. The video game was made to be played on an oscilliscope screen which was similar to the cathode ray tube used in black and white television. The game featured a side view of a tennis court in whic players used controllers with a dial and a button on them to bounce a dot across the screen. -
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Evolution of Video Games
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Spacewar
Spacewar LinkSpacewar was the very first graphical video game program made by a group of hackers in the Hingham Institute Study Group in April 30, 1962. The game featured two ship in space next to a star locked into combat. The entire game was dependent on the player's skill, reflexes, and strategy and everything in the game was influenced by the star's gravity. -
Maze War
Maze War was the very first first person 3d shooter video game to have been created. The developer, Steve Colley, designed this game to reward players points for killing other players or NPCs and the player with the most points at the end of the time limit is declared as the winner. In this game, players would run around in a maze as bouncing eyeballs, trying to kill each other. -
Video Game Cartridges
Video game cartridges or ROM (Read Only Memory) cartridges were made as a new way to hold video game programs instead of floppy discs that can load up games almost instantly. ROM cartridges are also more durable and more expensive than floppy discs are. ROM cartridges can also hold extended hardware inside of it that the console or computer doesn't have. Some of these addons that ROM cartridges may have are extra modules or processors. -
Minecraft
Minecraft was the first game made that could be classified as all the genres of video games and has won many awards. This game is an innovational video game that has inspired many architects and engineers. Created by Markus Persson, this game is basically like virtual legos.
