History of Video Games (RE: "Bally Astrocade")

From: Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com>
Date: Fri Jul 11 12:06:44 1997

Neither - The first arcade videogame was Nutting & Associates Computer
Space, designed by Nolan Bushnell in 1971, who later designed Pong
(1972) with the profits, and founded Atari. The first home videogame
was the Magnavox Odyssey 100, in 1972. The first ROM cartridge-based
home video game title is co-owned by the Fairchild Channel F and the RCA
Studio II, which were introduced simultaneously in 1976. The first
vector graphic arcade game was Lunar Lander in 1979, followed by
Asteroids later that year. The first (and only) vector graphic home
video game was the GCE/Milton Bradley Vectrex in 1982.

Kai

> ----------
> From: PG Manney
> Reply To: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 1997 6:59 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: "Bally Astrocade"
>
> Speaking of video games, I have 2 different sources which say that the
> first video game was
>
> 1)Pong
> 2) Asteroids.
>
> I personally believe asteroids, as the game (in my recollectopn, at
> least)
> used vector graphics, which should be faster and simpler than Pong's
> raster
> image.
>
> ...Or am I all wet? Anyone know?
>
> (Trivia -- What does "Pac" in Pac-man stand for? answer on request.)
>
Received on Fri Jul 11 1997 - 12:06:44 BST