Written by: Yashaswi Pradhan - 30036, Grade VII
Posted on: 12 July, 2024
A game played by electronically manipulating images produced by a computer program on a monitor or other display is video games. The first video game was played on 18th October, 1958 by William Higinbotham. He created the game called Tennis for Two. Fifteen years later, the first game console was made: The Magnavox Odyssey. It was released in 1972. The first generation of home consoles were generally limited to dedicated consoles with just one or two games pre-built into the console hardware, with a limited means to alter gameplay factors. In the late 1960s, Nolan Bushnell saw Spacewar! at Stanford University. Spacewar! is a 1962 mainframe game developed by a group of students and employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between these game consoles, others were also there, like 1972 - Magnavox Odyssey, 1975 - Atari Home Pong, 1976 - Fairchild Channel F, 1977 - Atari 26001976 - Coleco Telstar, 1979 - Intellivision, 1982 - ColecoVision, 1985 - Nintendo Entertainment System. Overall, the video games today and back then are totally different.
