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Essay On Founding Father

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Research 1 The Founding Fathers of Video Games

There are many discussions about who the founding fathers of video games are, but in my own opinion the founding father of video games is Physicist Willy Higinbotham. Through him the entire video game basis and industry would of never excited without him. The original video game was a game called Tennis For Two. It was made from a orthoscope with a 5 inch display. On the screen there was a electronic line going from one end of the screen to the other to represent a court. There was also another line in the middle the represents the net. in addition to that there was an electronic ball that bounced back and forth making a delightful ping sound when making contact with a surface. Once the ball was stuck it would reset to it initial starting point.

The machine was first presented in Brookhaven National Laboratories in 1958. People that were touring the laboratory were amazed to see the innovation of Higinbotham. Two people would play the game with two very large controllers. There was no score and point to the game people were amazed of the fun the game had.

This machine was the brainchild of William Higinbotham, a physicist at Brookhaven. Assisted by a fellow scientist Robert V. Dvorak, he constructed it over three weeks to demonstrate that …show more content…

He was a student at the Massachusett Institute of Technology and in the 1960’s he created with Wayne Witanen and J. Martin Graetz, Russell programed a game on one of MIT’s DEC PDP-1 called “Space wars”. The DEC PDP-1 was a refrigerator size box costing $120,000 and was only found in institutes computer rooms. Space wars was alot more complex the Tennis for two. It involved two space ships that would square off in a dogfight, each ship was equipped with missiles and a limited amount of fuel. Vector graphics were displayed on a black and white cathode ray tube

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