Everybody says Pong was the first video game, but in actuality, video games date back nearly 30 years earlier. In 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a patent for a device they called "the Cathode ray tube Amusement Device", equipped with an analog stick that allowed players to control a dot on-screen to simulate firing missiles at fixed targets.
Dude he was the guy I respected the most through this whole interview of the evolution of gaming. He brought emotional perception to the gaming world not just entertainment through machines. Atari did start the video game revolution but Miyamoto created a whole new concept of gaming. He was like a philosopher of gaming. fyi I play a bunch of ps3 games now but grew up with nintendo and always had a passion for the storys.
Wow... just seeing how far video games have come, is just purely amazing. We now have motion capture, facial capture and loads of other stuff. Video games never seize to amaze me, just look at Metal Gear Solid V, Red Dead Redemption, The Last of Us and other titles. Just...WOW. Just look at Legend of Zelda!!!
It is considered that the first ever graphical computer game was made in 1952 by a man named A.S dougles the game was a version of Tic-Tac-Toe, the game itself was programmed on a EDSAC caccum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube
Who can forget the incredible achievements of the British software houses? Sure, Atari, Sierra On-Line, MicroProse and Activision made it big in the 80s, but in a smaller country there were the big names of System 3, Ocean, US Gold, Gremlin, Sensible Software, Psygnosis, Codemasters, The Bitmap Brothers and Core Design!
Actually the ID software doc I mentioned early is just one episode of a series called "All Your History Are Belong to Us". Excellent video game documentary series, I just watched the ID Software and Halo episodes and they do not dissapoint! I highly recommend them and the series in general.
It was BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), most programs and videogames at that time were written in BASIC. The compiler was already built in the computer's chipsets. Quite easy program language to learn too. Not so powerful as languages of today, though.
I remember my dad not shutting up about all the games he used to play when he was a kid. He'd just got out f Cuba, so that was probably mind blowing shit to him.
What program were the Oliver twins using to write those games? Did they make their own compilers too? It seems like according to this documentary, they got a computer like commodore 64 or something similar, but what kind of program could you get for a computer like that in those days that could read the popular video game programming languages at the time?
Id, Apogee, Cyan, and LucasArts didn't exactly help innovate the consumer games market up until Nintendo pretty much established it as an industry. Id helped innovate FPSes and LucasArts and Cyan laid the ground rules for the art game itself, but Nintendo and Atari were the trendsetters. also this is meant to be a time-wasting documentary - of course the information is not as in depth as I want it and um yeah this was made in 1996 if I'm not to be mistaken by adding the math from Ralph Baer's legal action aftermath ("20 years have passed")
What the fuck. They totally skipped over the first home video game console, the magnavox odyssey. Supposedly that was one to the major inspirations for pong.
No you're wrong!!!! Baer invented the odyssey that had table tennis but Bushnell before it invented computer space and before computer space there was Space war invented by Bushnell.
No no, actual documentaries, I loved learning about migration patterns of wildebeest and how lion take care of our cubs when I was little. Now it's just stupid reality-ish shows
Hmmm, idk, dont take this the wrong way but i think the dino is one of them things when you think to yourself, i dont think this has potential to make money, im one of the few who would actually enjoy this. If it surface,it would only be for PC (not sure what kinda gamer you are) but as far as the xbox and playstation community go, its FPS and secondly its RPG.but thats a far second place.
