This document provides a history of games from ancient to modern times. It discusses the oldest known games such as Royal Game of Ur and Senet from 3000 BC. Backgammon evolved from older "tables" games. Traditional game types include sports, board games, card games, dice games, and children's games. Video games originated in the 1940s and evolved from computer programs and arcade games in the 1970s to modern consoles and genres today. Key developments included the first graphical game in 1952, the first commercial arcade game in 1972, and the 1983 crash that buried many unsold cartridges due to low-quality games like E.T. The document outlines platforms, genres, abbreviations and provides a timeline of major events

1. History of Games

2. What is a GAME ?
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A game is any activity that brings pleasure and
without conscious purpose .
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A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for
enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational
tool.
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Example- people dance, play musical instruments, act
in plays etc,

3. Oldest Games
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Royal Game of Ur oldest complete set of gaming
equipment ever found (3000BC)

4. (3000BC)
*Senet is a board game
*meaning the "Game of
passing"

5. Backgammon
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Backgammon is actually just one of a large family of
games once referred to as "tables" that were played
on the same type of board

6. Types of Games
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Sports/Olympic games
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Tabletop games
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Video games
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Children's games

7. Sports

8. Tabletop Games
Played on a table or other flat surface
Example - Board games, Card games,Dice games

9. Children's Games
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Children’s games are informal games, most often
played by children without adult organization,
sometimes even despite the disapproval of adults.
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Example - Jump the rope. Musical chair. Clapping
game

10. Video Games
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An electronic/computerized game played by
manipulating images on a video display/television
screen
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Example-Arcade games,Computer games,Console
games,Hand-held games,Online games,Mobile
games,Flash games..

11. History of Video Games

12. Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann in
1947, created the world's first Arcade game to use a
“Cathode ray tube amusement device“ based game
.
Cathode ray tubeThomas T.Goldsmith

13. 1950
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Charly Adama created the "Bouncing Ball" video
game program for MIT's new Whirlwind Computer.
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The first computer to display "real-time" video
signals.
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It was first demonstrated in April 1951.
Whirlwind Computer - MIT (US)

14. 1951
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“Ferranti International” created the “NIMROD
computer”.
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It was designed exclusively to play the game of “NIM”
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It was the very first digital computer designed game
in recorded history.
“NIM"Game Demonstration(UK)NIMROD Computer (UK)

15. 1952
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Alexander S. Douglas designed a computer
program for Tic-Tac-Toe (also known as Noughts and
Crosses)
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OXO was the first digital graphical simulation game,
and ran on the EDSAC Computer at Cambridge.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCTRWD3DFsA

16. 1958
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William Higinbotham created the first video game.
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“Tennis for Two," was created and played on a
Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope.
William Higinbotham Tennis for Two

17. 
In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar. It was
the first game intended for computer use.
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ISpacewar (Steve Russell)

18. Evolution of Video Games

19. Ralph baer who was called as father of video
games .
In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played
on a television set, a game called Chase.
chase game (Ralph baer)

20. GOLDEN AGE
OF
VIDEO GAMES

21. * In the 1970’s we can call it as Goldenage of arcade
games.
* In the student union at Stanford university
installed a game called “Galaxy”. This game is first
coin operated arcade game.
* First Commercial game was launched by Nutting
associates which was designed by Nolan Busnell
and Ted Dabney created coin operated arcade
version of space war .
Galaxy space war

22. * The first arcade game Ataris pong released by
ATARIS Which one was a great successfull game and that
one widely spreaded game. Atari sold 19000 units and
many imitators are also formed.
* Ralph baer joined with Magnovox odyssey released
“Magnavox odyssey system”. In Magnovox odyssey
system there is no catridges in that only it had few
programmed games in the console.
1972

23. Evolution of Video Games

24. Evolution of Game Consoles

25. Evolution of Game Characters

26. Crash of Video Games

28. 1983
* This the year in which Major crash was happened
in the video game industry
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial developed and published
by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console.
It is based on the film of the E.T, and was designed
by Howard Scott Warshaw.It was poorly designed.
* Atari buried thousands of cartridges of E.T in land.

29. Platforms

30. Genres
Action Adventure Role playing
Action-adventureSimulation
Beyond Good & EvilSim City
Strategy
Dragon Quest
Warcraft
Devil May Cry Grand Theft Auto

32. Game Abbreviations
FPS - First Person Shooter
SHMUP - Shoot 'em up
TPS - Third Person Shooter
MM0 - Massively Multi-player Online
RPG - Role Playing Game
JRPG - Japanese Role Playing Game
SRPG - Strategy Role Playing Game
RTS - Real Time Strategy
RTT - Real Time Tactics
TBS - Turn-based strategy
TBT - Turn-based tactics
SIM - Simulation
FMV - Full Motion video

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