History of Games: Class 1 - Moving Dots Around
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The document provides a history of early games including ancient board games such as Senet from 3500 BCE and Go from 200 BCE. It then discusses the development of early mechanical games and pinball in the mid-20th century. The first video game was a cathode ray tube amusement device created in 1947, followed by early games like NIM, OXO, and Tennis for Two. Pong in 1972 was a seminal arcade game that helped drive the commercial success of the first video game consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey and the Atari 2600. Popular arcade genres of the late 1970s and early 1980s included "Pong games", "sliding shooters" like Space Invaders, and "maze games"
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- 1. Moving Dots Around The early years of Video Games History of Games .
- 2. Question??? What was the first game?
- 3. Ancient Games Senet (~3500 BCE)
- 4. Ancient Games Royal Game of Ur (~2600 BCE)
- 5. Ancient Games Go (~200 BCE)
- 7. Ancient Games Nine Men's Morris (~800 CE)
- 8. Early Games Precursors to Chess (~600 - 1200 CE) Chaturanga Xiangqi
- 9. Early Games Snakes and Ladders (~1500 CE)
- 10. Early Games Mansion of Happiness (1843)
- 11. Early Games The Checkered Game of Life (1860)
- 14. Early Mechanical Games Billiard Japanais (~1750)
- 15. Early Mechanical Games Batagelles (1931)
- 16. Early Mechanical Games Modern Pinball (1947)
- 17. Question??? What was the first videogame?
- 18. Early Video Games Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device (1947)
- 19. Early Video Games NIM (1951)
- 20. Early Video Games OXO (1952)
- 21. Early Video Games Tennis For Two (1958)
- 22. 1st Generation Consoles Brown Box (1967)
- 23. 1st Generation Consoles Magnavox Odyssey (1972)
- 29. 2nd Gen Consoles Atari VCS (aka 2600) (1977)
- 30. 2nd Gen Consoles Mattel Intellivision (1980)
- 31. 2nd Gen Consoles Colecovision (1982)
- 32. 1980 Arcades…
- 33. Sliding Shooters Space Invaders (1978)
- 39. Maze Games The Amazing Maze (1976)
- 41. The Videogame Crash of 1983
- 43. Sliding Shooters Space Invaders Extreme (2009)
- 44. Maze Games Pacman Championship Edition (2007)
- 45. Due next week... ●Assignment 1: Ball, Brick and Paddle ○ 500 – 1000 words