History of games notes

Learn the names:

First chess

Then NIM

OXO = using submarine ray system

First actual game for entertainment: Tennis for two

Tech model Railroad Club: Spacewar!

ATARI:

!!Babney and Bushnell!!

Computer space = first ever video game of all time and sets the stage for arcade games

!! History of Atari!!

Pong = first game with sound and made specifically for 2 players.

Part 3: Home consoles

Ralph Baer: television guy made a home console

Brown box -> Magnavox odyssey

Soundship sold separately.

Part 4:

Atarri rips of the console thing and makes a pong home console.

Looking into microprocecors

VES

VCS

Atari controls 86% of the global games market

Difference between 1st and second generation consoles

Activision is composed of the main people from Atari to make games sepeerate from the console.