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

From: Benedict Chong <bluesky6_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri Jul 11 12:20:18 1997

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:06:44 -0700, you wrote:

%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.

Recently, I found the history of video games at one of zdnet's sites :
www.videogamespot.com/features/universal/hov/hov01.html

where hov01.html can go up to hov10.html

Don't know if the link is still value tho'.

Ben
Received on Fri Jul 11 1997 - 12:20:18 BST