Video Games changed the World Too this day, I hear my dad tell me stories about how he used to play Pong all of the time as a kid. Now, imagining playing that game blows my mind. Many people do not know what the actual definition of video gaming is. Video gaming is an electronic game played by means of images on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action. The video game world today has drastically evolved from what it used to be. Games have evolved from little balls that went up and down, to controlling characters of video games and being in real life situations. In 1940, Edward U. Condon designed the first “video game” ever. It was called Nim, and even though thousands and thousands of people played it, the computer won at least 90
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When Dr. Edward U. Condon created Nim, more than 50,000 people played it in a six month spand. Nim was only available for a certain amount of time, so the first game system designed for households did not release for nearly three decades when Ralph Baer released the Brown Box. The Brown Box system was programmed to play multiple games like ping pong, checkers and four sports games. Eventually, Sega and Taito were the first companies to create the worlds first public arcade gaming games when they released games like Periscope and Crown Special Soccer in 1966 and 1967. Those were just the beginning, in 1972 Nolan Bushnell released Atari. In a sense Atari is what began the creation of everything because a few years after it was released 15 more companies began to develop video games in a now. Video games just did not change the world in a technology sense, but it changed the ways restaurants made income. In the late 1970s, restaurants began installing video games to capitalize of the new sensation. Competition between players started occurring and people wanted to see who could get the higher score. Then, multiplayer games were just limited to two people playing on the same screen or just taking turns playing the game, but in 1973 people could compete against each other on separate screens when a network called PLATO came out. Not only did PLATO allow you to play on different screens but it also released the first 3D video game called
When Dr. Edward U. Condon created Nim, more than 50,000 people played it in a six month spand. Nim was only available for a certain amount of time, so the first game system designed for households did not release for nearly three decades when Ralph Baer released the Brown Box. The Brown Box system was programmed to play multiple games like ping pong, checkers and four sports games. Eventually, Sega and Taito were the first companies to create the worlds first public arcade gaming games when they released games like Periscope and Crown Special Soccer in 1966 and 1967. Those were just the beginning, in 1972 Nolan Bushnell released Atari. In a sense Atari is what began the creation of everything because a few years after it was released 15 more companies began to develop video games in a now. Video games just did not change the world in a technology sense, but it changed the ways restaurants made income. In the late 1970s, restaurants began installing video games to capitalize of the new sensation. Competition between players started occurring and people wanted to see who could get the higher score. Then, multiplayer games were just limited to two people playing on the same screen or just taking turns playing the game, but in 1973 people could compete against each other on separate screens when a network called PLATO came out. Not only did PLATO allow you to play on different screens but it also released the first 3D video game called