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

From: James Carter <jscarter_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri Jul 11 13:00:43 1997

At 05:06 PM 7/11/97 +0000, 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.
>
>Kai

IIRC, Odyssey 100 was a simple pong unit. The one you're refering to was
just "Odyssey."


James
jscarter_at_worldnet.att.net
Received on Fri Jul 11 1997 - 13:00:43 BST