History of the video game

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Some facts about the video game and its origins:

  • The “video” in “video game” traditionally refers to a raster display device (i.e. a device displaying computer graphics as pixels).

  • The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube in 1947.

  • In 1951 the game Nim was designed to be played on the NIMROD computer. This was the first instance of a digital computer designed specifically to play a game.

  • In September 1971, Galaxy Game was installed at Stanford University. This was the first coin-operated video game.

  • As of 2013, there are eight generations of video game consoles.

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  • Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, Inc. in 1972 and released the game Pong. Pong was the first arcade video game with widespread success.

  • Atari sold over 19,000 Pong machines.

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Gawd I remember Atari. My parents spent a hefty amount on getting us that and we were so excited!!!!