History of Video Games
The original idea for video games was conceived by Ralph Baer, he was
to build a TV set and wanted to incorporate a game into it but his idea
was rejected by his employers. The next time the concept of the video game
took off was only after 18 years.
William Higginbotham was considered the
first inventor of the video game. In 1958 he invented the game called
tennis for two. Most of the games at that time were written by individual
programmers. In 1962 Steve Russel invented Spacewar which was developed
for a computer using a mainframe computer to design the game. The arcade
version of Spacewar was developed in 1971 by Bushnell and Dabney. Bushnell
formed his own company called Atari and redesigned the arcade version of
the game Pong as a home video game.
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The first commercial video game console
came out in 1972 called Odyssey by Magnavox which included twelve
games but the video game console took off only after Atari came out with
Pong. The first games to be registered were developed by Atari called asteroids
and lunar Landers. The first portable handheld electronic game was
Tic Tac Toe in 1972 by a company called Waco.
Video games became very popular
as a form of entertainment in arcades and at home. The first handheld
game console was Microvision designed by Smith Engineering and the
first cartridge based video game console was Fairchild VES by Fairchild
semiconductor in August 1976. The 1990’s onward
saw the decline of arcades and video games with new technological advancements
such as hand held games like Nintendo’s game boy and exclusive gaming
consoles such as the play station by Sony and the Xbox by Microsoft. The
choice of games has also undergone a sea change from the first days of
pong and tennis for two. The games today are more hi tech, often adapted
from movies and the attachments accompanying the console have multiple
features.
