H é ctor Mu ñ ozAvila Sources Gamespotcom investoraboutcom emuunlimcom designboomcom Wikipedia my own Introduction A Long Journey Some ideas in the 1948 First video game ID: 731898
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History of Video Games
By: Héctor Muñoz-Avila
Sources
:
Gamespot.com
investor.about.com
emuunlim.com
designboom.com
Wikipedia
my ownSlide2
Introduction: A Long Journey
Some ideas in the 1948First video game: Tennis game in an OscilloscopeSpace game on DEC-1
Current videogames:
Crysis
In between:
Space Invaders:
http://www.spaceinvaders.de/Slide3
Chess Origins
6 AD: Believed to come from IndiaCame to Western through Persia
1769 Fake chess machine
1952 Turing design a chess algorithm
1956 Maniac versus HumanSlide4
Origins of Some Companies
1889 company create card game:1932 COLECO (short for Connecticut Leather Company) 1947 T
okyo Telecommunications Engineering Company:
1954 David Rosen makes machines for GI’s in Japan
Sony
Nintendo (“leave luck to heaven”)
(Service Games)
SEGASlide5
Other Origins
1951 Ralph Baer (@Loral) suggest adding game to TV
May be considered the inventor of video games
Only until 1967 he realized his dream of an “interactive television”
1952 A.S.Douglas
(@Cambridge): Interactive Tic Tac Toe
1958 Willy Higinbotham (@Brookhaven National Laboratory): Oscilloscope Slide6
Other Origins (II)
1961 Steve Russell (@MIT) creates Spacewar!
“
If I hadn't done it, someone would've done something equally exciting if not better in the next six months. I just happened to get there first.”
- Steve RussellSlide7
Spacewar! Legacy
1971 Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck formed Computer Recreations
Galaxy Game
Cost: $20K
Play cost: 10 cent
Built: dozens
1972
Noland Bushnell
and
Ted Dabney
(@Nutting Associates)
Galaxy Game
Built: 1.5K
1972
PONG
Built: 10K
“Breaks down”Slide8
Early Game Consoles
Pong (http://www.apn.gr/pong.html)
1972 Magnavox builds OdysseySlide9
Early Stages: 1976-1977
COLECO builds TELSTAR
Cartridges are born (
Fairchild Camera & Instrument
: Channel F)
Atari bought by Warner Communications ($28M)
Atari releases first console (later known as Atari 2600)Slide10
Early Stages 1977-78
Nintendo releases Othello (http://www.mattelothello.com/)Taito creates Space Invaders!
Midway bought license
Apple and Atari release PCs
But Atari is seen as a gaming companySlide11
The Golden Age 1979-1981
Atari releases Asteroids!Frogger, Konami/Sega, 1981 Pac-Man, Bally/Midway, 1980
Donkey Kong, Nintendo, 1981
Namco releases Pac-Man, 1982 (+300K machines sold)
Own television show
US Army commissions Atari for a tank simulation game
Start of a long enduring activity (Lehigh included!) Nintendo releases first console in 1981Nothing to do? Check this out (some retro games):http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/Slide12
The Great Crash 1982-1984
The Commodore 64 PC is releasedColeco releases the Adam PCToo many competitors small and large saturate the market1982 Warner Corp. stock fell 32% after Atari announces less-than-expected sells of consoles
Atari sold to
Jack Tramiel
(owner of Commodore)
New company: Atari Corp. pulls from Console marketBright spot: Nintendo releases famicon, which does well in JapanSlide13
The Return of the Video Games 1985-1988
Nintendo releases NESMet with skepticism by market observers
Turns out to be an instant hit
Legend of Zelda
http://www.nintendoland.com/zelda/home.htm
Apple releases the Mac, Atari releases 520ST
Who won?Tetris is released! http://www.miniclip.com/tetris.htmColeco files for bankruptcy
1985 MS releases Windows
PC as a gaming platform
2006: Games for WindowsSlide14
The Story Continues
1989 Nintendo releases Gameboy, Sega releases Genesis1991 Nintendo releases SNES, Sega releases Sonic
1993 32-bit consoles
Nintendo releases Mortal Combat!
1999-2001 Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox
2006: Nintendo releases wii (out sales PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360) Slide15
What’s Left?
PC GamesWe will cover these in coming classes but by Genre:FPSsRTSsRPGs (including MMOs)