MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Virtual Reality, The Modern Age, Coleco
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Invention of the first video game (tennis for two) - 1958: physicist william higginbotham invented the first video game, tennis for two, at. Brookhaven national laboratory on long island in new york in 1958. In 1962, steve russell invented space war, a game that was developed at the. It wasn"t the first actual video game developed, however it was the first intended to be played on computers: computer space - 1971, nolan bushnell and ted dabney (founders of atari) created an arcade game version of. "the family" is in crisis - a reagan era theme: the film gave video games a bad reputation overall, nintendo had to stay competitive; sega was making blockbuster games as well as famous new characters (e. g. , sonic). Isometric perspective: above the action and on an angle - 3-d: advergames: games whose only purpose is to market some other product (e. g. ,
