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A Short Game History

Who was First?Tennis for Two

Oscilloscope1958Brookhaven National Laboratory

Space WarPDP-11962MIT

All Blips!

Ralph H. BaerTelevision Gaming and Training Apparatus.Patent #3,728,4801968

First video game ConsoleMagnavox Odyssey1972Unsuccessful

Pong - AtariDesigned by Allan Alcorn1972

Produced and Marketed by AtariNolan Bushnell

Copyright infringementMagnavox Won.

Vector ArcadeSpeed Freak Asteroids

Tempest 1977 1979

1980

Space Invaders - Sprite AgeSpace Invaders

Namco1978

The Bitmap

Puck-Man Renamed Pac-Man

Namco1980

Color Bitmap

Atari 26001977-19924k of Ram

Over 200 titles created.

Commodore 64The Home Computer

198264k MemoryPowerful little Beast

SimCityAlternate Reality

Nintendo Entertainment System198548k Memory1.79 MHz Processor

Color Keys

Commander KeenID Software1990-1991Shareware

Computers caught up

Keen3 Megs

Myst1993

What 3D rendering could do.

They CheatedStills

What is a ModelA 3D Bitmap

ModelWireframe

TextureColor Part

RenderingTaxing

Descent1995

First Truly 3D gameSoftware Rendering

Never Popular

Consoles Catch UpPlay station 1993

Nintendo 641994

Graphics AcceleratorsGet the Graphics of Consoles on your PC

Requirement

The Graphics WarThe current game industry is at war.