CREATIVITY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT

GAME HISTORY

1958 Ping Pong Tennis

In 1958 Ping pong tennis was created, to be played on an oscilloscope screen made by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National  Laboratory.

Steve Russell - Inventing of Spacewar (1961)

Computer Game history start with space war. Space war was the first computer game programmed, it took many hours of work to make this game.

1972 Odyssey complex

In 1972 The first commercially available home videogame for tv was launched, called odyssey complex, with many electronic components, this Game was very expensive

Atari

In 1972 Nolan Bushnell forms Atari to develop games, and produces Pong, a simple game for arcade

Video Game Facts

• The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the systemSega Net.
• The Microsoft Xbox was the first video game system to provide full support for HDTV.
• Popular Science recognized the Sega Dreamcast as one of the most important and innovative products of 1999.
• The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42 million transistors on the chip itself!
• The PlayStation 2 was the first system to have graphics capability better than that of the leading-edgepersonal computer at the time of its release.
• The Nintendo N64 marked the first time that computer graphics workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) developed game hardware technology.
• While the original Atari Football game was first created in 1973, it wasn't released until 1978. It was delayed because the game couldn't scroll the screen -- players couldn't move beyond the area shown on the monitor. When the game was finally released, it became the first game to utilize scrolling, a key part of many games today.
• The Atari Pong video game console was the No. 1 selling item for the holiday season in 1975.
• The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel Fconsole, introduced in August 1976.
• The PlayStation 2 was the first video game system to use DVD technology.
• On the original Magnavox Odyssey, players had to keep score themselves because the machine couldn't.
• The Nintendo GameCube's proprietary disc held 1.5 gigabytes of data -- 190 times more than what anN64 game cartridge could hold.
• On the market from 1991 till 2004, the SNK NeoGeo AES has tied the Atari 2600 (1977-1990) as the longest supported gaming console in history.
• The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer.
• Mattel's Intellivison system, introduced in 1980, featured an add-on called "PlayCable," which delivered games by cable TV.
• Nintendo's Game Boy was the most successful game system ever, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide.
• The word atari comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." Technically, it is the word used by a player to inform his opponent that he is about to lose, similar to "check" in chess.
• In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider.
• The first color portable video game system was the Atari Lynx, introduced in 1989 and priced at $149.
• Introduced in 1993, the 3DO was the first video game system to be based entirely on CD technology.
• The Sony PlayStation was originally intended as a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. When licensing problems and other issues arose, Sony decided to develop the PlayStation as a machine of its own.

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Space Invaders 1978

Space Invaders goes way way back to the Atari days. Japanese game designer, Tomohiro Nishikado, designed Space Invaders back in 1978 where the game was released in Japan. In 1980, Space Invaders made its way to the Atari system and became a legend. It was one of the first shooter games to be developed and many more games have found their inspiration through Space Invaders. 

Pac-Man 1980

On May 22, 1980, the Pac-Man video game was released in Japan and by October of the same year it was released in the United States. The yellow, pie-shaped Pac-Man character, who travels around a maze trying to eat dots and avoid four mean ghosts, quickly became an icon of the 1980s. To this day, Pac-Man remains one of the most popular video games in history.

 Mattel In tellivision Released in 1980 After successful test marketing in 1979, Mattel Electronics released its In tellivision system nationwide in late 1980. Armed with twelve games, better graphics and sound than its competitors, and the promise to release a compatible keyboard that would turn the system into a home computer ("Play games and balance your checkbook!"), Mattel set its sights on taking down the "invincible" Atari 2600. They got off to a good start, selling out the first production run of 200,000 In tellivision units quickly

 VectrexReleased in 1982The Vectrex is an 8-bit video game console developed by General Consumer Electric (GCE) and later bought by Milton Bradley Company. The Vectrex is unique in that it utilized vector graphics drawn on a monitor that was integrated in the console; no other console before or after the Vectrex had a comparable configuration, and no other non-portable game console had a monitor of its own (integrated). It was released in November 1982 at a retail price of $199. As the video game market declined and then crashed, the Vectrex exited the market in early 1984

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)Released in 1985Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to produce its own console hardware that had removable cartridges, a feature not included with the company's earlier Color TV Games product.

Alpha Waves

Alpha Waves was the first real 3D graphics platform game

 Hovertank 3D 1991

This is Game is claime to be the first 3D graphics game for DOS.

 Catacomb 3D 1991

This game was one of the first games in 3D computer graphics, also first game to have texture mapping 

1990's more people start to buy game console's. many famous companies start to make there own game console's Play station was launched  in 1995 it was huge hit playstation games start a new look it was very good in graphics at that time Sony play station 2 launched in 2000 this console become most successful game console of all time later 2001 Microsoft developed Xbox game console. all this console come with better and better graphics and controls in game palystation 3 & Xbox 360 was fantastic in its graphic more realistic than any other console.future of gaming will continue to produce more realism.