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first home video game system, named Odyssey, is released by Magnavox. This main games featured on this system were a light gun game and a tennis game. During the same time, a game by the name of Pong is a success in the public. It is because people wanted to play Pong in the comfort of their own homes, that they bought Odyssey. The system only sold around 100,000 units since Magnavox only sold the game system from their own stores, making consumers believe that the game system would only work on

Almost everyone in the world has played some sort of videogame before. They exist everywhere and are becoming more and more accessible due to the globalization of technology. On average you will spend 10,000 hours playing video games from 5th to 12th grade (McGonigal, 2010). It is estimated that 68% of households play video games (Evolution of Games, 2010). So where did video games originate from? What was the first game ever created? BOARD GAMES The very first board game that is known to have existed

The next year is much more eventful. It starts off with a video game market crash, and several companies go bankrupt. However, there is good news--- and its name is Nintendo. The Japanese company is not willing to release the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in America because Atari rules a large part of the market. Instead, they decide to offer Atari the rights to release the product in the U.S. The plans fall through and we do not see Nintendo until 1985. Consoles galore!!! (1985-89) If the

Although the first video games appeared in the 1950s,[1] they were played on massive computers connected to vector displays, not analog televisions. Ralph H. Baer conceived the idea of a home video game in 1951. In the late 1960s while working for Sanders Associates he created a series of video game console designs. One of these designs, which gained the nickname of the "Brown Box", featured changeable game modes and was demonstrated to several TV manufactures ultimately leading to an agreement between

Alot of people like video game, but don’t really think much about who came up with this and how did it get so popular well here are the answers to those questions. In 1972 Atari develops the very 1st video game Pong a table tennis like game.The game came in a console of its own you could not play anything on it but pong.Today pong seems like a pile of junk, but back in 1972 It was like the invention of the light bulb.Atari was the biggest company for 3 whole years until the competition came to rise

The video game console is a gaming system to play video games on the television invented by Ralph Baer and it was invented because Ralph wanted to make his dream come true for the first time. Ralph made models to test his invention and make a good console that was worth paying for. Although it took some time to build, he never gave up and kept on trying if he didn’t get it right the first time. He was a very good man and received many awards for his accomplishments. His story was that he was while

Kohl. They launch a senate investigation on the violence of video games. I Rate it………………. (1994-95) As a result of the Senate investigation, there is a new rating system--- the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). Those are the little E, E 10+, T, M, ratings at the bottom of the game box. In other news, Sega makes the Saturn, and in Japan Sony makes the PlayStation. Going a year forward, the U.S. meets Sony, but the sensation that sweeps the nation is spawned in Japan----- the Nintendo

played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a television screen or other display screen. I have loved to play video games ever since I was a little kid. I still remember the first video game I ever had, it was called Sega Genesis 2. It was one of my all-time favorite games. I was so sad the day it died because of its “old age”. I do not actually remember how old I was, but I remember that some years passed before I received another one. The second videogame I ever had

Video games have been around since 1972, and since then have increased in quality immensely. Game consoles have gone from 4-bit to 128-bit, which is a huge increase in processing power. In this paper, I will cover all consoles from the 1970’s to present day. Before I get into any home consoles, I am going to cover the history of arcade games. The first known coin-operated arcade game was called “Galaxy Game”, an arcade version of the “Spacewar” computer game. Although the “Galaxy Game” was fairly

(the equivalent of $516 in 2008 dollars),c Odyssey needed a television screen to project its very limited action. The system came with 12 games, including versions of tennis and ping pong, each on a printed circuit board.5 However, partly due to some uninspired marketing and distribution decisions, Odyssey’s appeal proved limited. Magnavox sold more than 100,000 game systems by year-end, but sales quickly declined and Odyssey was pulled from the market.6 Enter Atari Around the same time