History of video games

History of video games

The history of video games takes place from 1958, when physicist Willy Higinbotem, a senior military nuclear Brookhaven laboratory, invented the world's first video game. It had to play using the oscilloscope screen. Thus was created "Tennis for Two", where the "Ball" bouncing on a horizontal line at the bottom of the screen, and it had to beat off short line at the top of the screen. To control the "racket" was produced console with two buttons "left" and "right." But the beginning of the history of video games with "Tennis for Two" was short-lived. Higinbotem dismounted his device, because he needed oscilloscope. Moreover, the physicist did not even patent his idea, because he believed that not come up with nothing outstanding. Time has shown that he was wrong. And the history of video games will show that the first commercial video games, in fact, were the reincarnation of "Tennis for Two".
But the time doesn’t stand on one place, and the history of video games became develop further. In 1961 a group of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ideology and inspiration which is now considered to be 25-year-old Steve Russell, created the first interactive computer game "Space War". For the first time in the game did not fight a man with a computer, but man to man. The player controls the two spaceships, who tried to destroy each other with rockets.
In 1972 Bushnell and his friend Ted Dabni dropped at $ 250 and founded Atari, which was the first company specializing exclusively in the production of video games in the history of video games. The first product the company was still the same tennis, named Pong (more precise term "ping pong" was already patented by Baer).
In 1983 the company Cinematronics released the first video game, recorded on laser disc ("The Lair of the Dragon").  And in 1989 Nintendo has released a pocket video game Game Boy (sold for $ 109). A new wave of technological revolution, new history of video games - there were 16-bit video games.
A new wave of technological revolution - there were 32-bit and 64-bit games. The world market of video games, new players, for example, Japanese electronics giant Sony has released their consoles PlayStation (the first time, players were able to play games that are created not only by producing the console, but also third-party developers) and the company Sega - Sega Saturn (she briefly captured the lion's share of the market, but quickly lost the lead).
The 2005 year is presumably, the onset of new technological revolution: the three largest companies Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft demonstrated new models of game consoles with new capabilities. In particular, actively in the process of miniaturization consoles.