History of the Video Game
Chronology• 1958 Willy Higgenbotham, Pingpong for 2• 1961 Steve Russell---SpaceWar PDP-1• 1966 Nolan Bushnell---Fox&Geese PDP-1• 1970 Computer Space---First Arcade Game,
Nutting Associates (Bushnell, Dabney Design)• 1972 Magnavox Odyssey First Home Game
(Analog)• 1972 Atari Introduces Pong Arcade Model
Willy HiggenbothamBrookhaven Labs 1958
MIT 1961Steve Russell Programmed
Space War on a PDP-1
100 KHz Clock Speed
XY Display
http://www.computerspacefan.com/MVC-261F.JPG
Computer Space 1970
Shifting Synchronous digital counters technology (Bushnell Patents)
Pong Enters Market1970 Atari Started (Syzygy)1972 Pong Coin-op Introduced
Magnavox Odyssey
1972 Analog
1975 Consumer Pong Ships
1977Atari 2600
VCS
Chronology (Continued)• 1974 First Driving Game (Gran Trak)• 1974 Intel designs first Microprocessor 4004
(too weak for games)• 1975 Pong for consumers ships• 1977 Asteroids, First Game to contain
Microprocessor 6502 • 1977 First Atari 2600 VCS Sold• 1983 The Bubble Year for 2600
Chuck E. Cheese’s
Androbot
Etak
ByVideo
Magnum Microwave
Axlon
Welcome to uWink
Welcome to uWink
Ordering Demo
Food Ordering
Media Ordering
SNAPEducation Systems
Soaring Creativity
What has this Citizen Scientist Discovered
•Classrooms are Obsolete One to Many Communication
•Creativity can be Taught
•Video Games Show the Way
•Exercise and Learning must be linked
School Almost Worked
Most Interesting Place in Town
Watching River Flow
Watching Corn Grow
Who is Paying Attention?
Competition For Student Interest
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School InterestBook InterestTelevisionVideo GamesInternet
Cost to Produce
Media Type Budgets
Movies $30 Million per Hour
Video Games $1 Million per Hour
TV sitcom $3 Million per Hour
TV Commercial $500,000 per Spot
Classroom $30 per Hour
Just does not Compete
Current School
Time Allocation
Writing Memorization Mathematics Creative Thought Dicipline
Disruption is Very Boring
If You Want Your TV Ratings to Go to Zero for 7 to 16 year olds
Put on a talking head
Public Schools Were Created in
the 1800’sFeed Workers into Factories
Creativity
Risk Kills Creativity
Figure out how to minimize risk
What is an Idea??
How Do You Get More Ideas?
Attend Weird Trade Shows
Embrace the Crazy
EDIT
Create Feature Matrices
Foreign Travel with Leisure
Distance from the everyday
Mash Together Two Industries or
Products
Neurogenesis•New Neuron Growth
•BDNF-brain-derived neurotrophic factor
•BDNF causes synapses to sprout new dendritic branches, providing more synapses to accelerate connections
Neurogenesis—New Neurons
BDNf– Miracle Grow for Dendrites
Video Games Will Teach and
Test
600 e-Modules Per Year
+200 AP E-Modules
Power Troika
Creativity Will Determine a
Societies Future Success
Current School Structure actually Stifles Creativity
The Snap System Teaches
Creativity
And How to Use Tools to Invent
Laptops Can’t Work
All Graduates Must
• Type at least 50 words per minute
• Write a Short story
• Write a screen play
• Direct a Movie
• Understand Plumbing
• Understand Electrical Wiring
• Program an Ardwino (open source microcontroller)
Old Fashioned Education
Fix Education and The World will fix itself
