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A Short Game History

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A Short history of video games, split into three forms

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A Short Game History

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Who was First?Tennis for Two

Oscilloscope1958Brookhaven National Laboratory

Space WarPDP-11962MIT

All Blips!

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Ralph H. BaerTelevision Gaming and Training Apparatus.Patent #3,728,4801968

First video game ConsoleMagnavox Odyssey1972Unsuccessful

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Pong - AtariDesigned by Allan Alcorn1972

Produced and Marketed by AtariNolan Bushnell

Copyright infringementMagnavox Won.

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Vector ArcadeSpeed Freak Asteroids

Tempest 1977 1979

1980

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Space Invaders - Sprite AgeSpace Invaders

Namco1978

The Bitmap

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Puck-Man Renamed Pac-Man

Namco1980

Color Bitmap

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Atari 26001977-19924k of Ram

Over 200 titles created.

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Commodore 64The Home Computer

198264k MemoryPowerful little Beast

SimCityAlternate Reality

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Nintendo Entertainment System198548k Memory1.79 MHz Processor

Color Keys

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Commander KeenID Software1990-1991Shareware

Computers caught up

Keen3 Megs

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Myst1993

What 3D rendering could do.

They CheatedStills

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What is a ModelA 3D Bitmap

ModelWireframe

TextureColor Part

RenderingTaxing

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Descent1995

First Truly 3D gameSoftware Rendering

Never Popular

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Consoles Catch UpPlay station 1993

Nintendo 641994

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Graphics AcceleratorsGet the Graphics of Consoles on your PC

Requirement

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The Graphics WarThe current game industry is at war.


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