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Video games' development
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The Oscilloscope table-tennis
In 1958 Psuchist Willy Higinbotham ionvented the first video game. The game was just like a table-tennis game but was played on an oscilloscope. This great start of video games was done at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. -
The 1st Spacewar!!!
The first spacewqar was invented by Steve Russel in 1961. It was also the first computer interactive game. This was done at Masachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It uses digital PDP-1 to run. -
Tennis and Chasing game on telivision
Ralph Baer and his team are finally done making two telivision interactive games. One is a chasing game and one is tennis. They also managed to create a toy gun which is detected by its spot of light on the T.V. screen. -
The 1st video arcade game
Compute Space was the first video arcade game realeased. It was invented by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. About 1500 games were sent out that time. It is like a new version of Spacewar but is called Computer Space. Public rated it as a hard game. -
1st home video game
The company Magnavox showcases home video game called Odyssey. Its first showcase was at Burlingame. The game was later realeased to the public. -
Pong
Pong is invented by Bushnell and Dabney's company Atari. The game was similar to Ping-pong but the name ping-pong was already taken so they named it Pong. You can also compare it to on screen air hockey. -
Electronic Games
Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel are the founders of the first video-game magazine which is called Electronic games. -
Gameboy
Game boy is released by Nintendo for $109. It is a handheld game, It was very popular around 90s too. -
Jaguar
Jaguar is anopher game realeased by Atari. The attempt was to make 64-bit but it actually runs on a 34-bit processors. It was another home video game. -
Highscore
Billy Mitchell makes a highscore of 3,333,360 for the game pacman. Pacman was created by Billy in 1960. It is still eenjoyed by the kids of the 2000s. -
Play-station 2
Sony launches its play station 2 in the U.S. for $299.99. -
Playstaion 3
Sony realease another Playstation. This one is the ps 3. -
Wii
Nintendo realeases a Wii which lets the game users use the controller in many ways. The has a lot of different games.
