Atari 2600

would consider myself lower middle class. My dad was the main provider in the family. My mom only worked to get out of the house. We had enough to eat. We had cable television, a small house; not enough bedrooms, not enough bathrooms. We had an Atari 2600. My richer friends had Intellivision or ColecoVision. We had the Commodore 64, and when I grew up my brother gave me his old Zenith PC. Mainly we had what we needed even though we never had enough personal space. One thing that reminds…

A lot of things happened in 1977- The Atari 2600 gaming system was released, Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th U.S president, and NASA launched Voyager 1. But something else happened, a huge breakthrough for the marine science world. An expedition to the Galápagos Rift revealed hydrothermal vents, and along with it new and unknown creatures that somehow has survived in very harsh conditions. Hydrothermal vents are most commonly found along mid-oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic…

The world has so much technology that can be put into cars, planes, computers, etc, but what if I told you that same technology is being used to run a 10.3 billion dollar industry? Video games have been around since the late 60’s. Now most of them have more computing power than the first rocket ship. Video games have evolved over the years. From 8 bit to HD, they have evolved and offer many possibilities. While sometimes the can be bad they can also be good. They help with some disorders…

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…

when he founded his own company- Atari. Little did he know that the first game he would produce would be the cornerstone of what would become a multibillion-dollar industry. Pong was a simple game involving just two paddles and a ball. Within a few days, there were lines of people waiting to play the game. Pong was a hit. Following the arcade success of Pong, Atari released the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) in 1977. The VCS later became known as the Atari 2600. As the ’80s began, the…

On an article on Ars Technica done by Andrew Cunningham he says, “In the Atari era, everyone from Sears to Quaker Oats tried to grab a slice of the gaming pie. The fact that basically anyone could design and sell hastily-coded Atari 2600 with no interference from or cooperation with Atari led to a game market flooded with shovelware and to clearance bins filled with unsellable junk. This in turn led to gun-shy retailers and consumers…

Why have video games become a big success? Back in the early 1900s, people didn’t have video games, they had simple games such as checker and chess. These two games are still widely played, but when computers and televisions started becoming a normal necessity, virtual games became more apparent. The concept of video games started with the first computer game. This game was a version of tic-tac-toe, created in 1952 by A.S. Douglas, a Cambridge university doctoral student (Hile) This simple, but…

Our minds are very powerful but artificial intelligence can become just as powerful and be more dominant. Artificial intelligence (AI) are slowly becoming a part of our everyday lives. Powerful developments are creating smart computer systems. Computer systems are becoming self-managed such as “dumb” computers will become more intelligent because “autonomic computing” will replace it. In addition, the public needs to keep up with technology to stay productive and relevant in the world. It is…

Violent, addicting, and frustrating are some of the characteristics used to describe video games. I’ve been playing video games for over five years now and have noticed the increase in violence. I remember one of the first really violent games I played “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”. As an 8 year old kid playing this game, rated M for mature, filled with lots of death, sex, and abuse of drugs and alcohol it led to be the gateway into my life of playing violent video games. I believe that video…

Technology constantly changes itself and the way we interact with the world and our own selves. One achievement of technology that has always had an impact on people is video games. Video games can provide entertainment, education, and can bring people together. Some critics of games claim that they are violent and meaningless, but in fact, games are a benefit to society. A common misconception is that video games are a recent invention, but the truth is they have been around for almost seventy…