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COMPUTER SPACE• video arcade game released by Nutting Associates in 1971• created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney who would later found Atari• world’s first commercially sold coin-operated video game (preceded only by two months by Galaxy Game which was located soley at Stanford University)
MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY• world’s first video game console and debuted in 1972• designed by Ralph Baer who had a working prototype in 1968• the prototype is known as the “brown box” and is now located in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History• some consider this invention to be analog rather than digital• came with a light gun (kind of like the one used in Nintendo’s Duck Hunt!)
PONG• video game developed by Atari• originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1972• based on the sport of table tennis• got its name from the sound that is generated by the circuitry when the ball is hit• often thought of as the first video game, when it actually is not
SPACE INVADERS• An arcade video game designed in 1978 by Tomohiro Nishikado• One of the earliest shooting games and it featured two-dimensional graphics• The aim of the game is kills waves of aliens with a laser cannon• This games was one of the forerunners of modern video games• Our grade 11/12 Computer Science class will be creating this game as a final project!!
The Difference Engine
The Mark I
The ENIAC
The Altair
Apple
IBM
The First Bug