gaming control device
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Gaming Control Device
Joshua Tarin & Mary Rodriguez
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William Higinbotham
• used an oscilloscope to produce a system to display the audio modulation of a radio station's high frequency radio output
• general-purpose technician
• worked on cathode-ray tube displays in MIT Radiation Laboratory
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1st controller • Tennis for Two• Located in Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Georgia
• Released to the public in 1958
• Inventor: William Higinbotham
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Ralph H. Baer
• Born in Germany Served in U.S. army
• Fought during WWII• Built M.I. snooping
equipment for use in Berlin to monitor Soviet transmissions
• Became first Engineering Fellow at Sanders
• Invented the brown box
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1st Home Controller & Home Console
• Magnavox Odyssey• Dial controller• Invented 1972• Patent # 3,728,480
(US) issued April 17, 1973
• Inventor: Ralph H. Baer
• Powered by batteries
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Dial Controllers Atari pong 1975
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JoyStick
• The inventor is unknown
• Atari is the company that made the joystick famous in household video game controllers
A thumbstick is an evolutionized joystick
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Gunpei Yokoi
• 1941 – 1997
• Inventor of Gameboy• Inventor of the DPad• So Many Inventions!
• http://www.virtual-boy.org/gunpei%20yokoi.htm
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DPad
• Engineered by Gunpei Yokoi in 1982
• NINTENDO• Created for games
like Donkey Kong
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TRIGGERS (Shoulder Buttons)
• First released on the Sony PlayStation
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ABXY BUTTONS
• A and B buttons first shown on Nintendo controllers
• Buttons have always been used since the first video game controller
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Wireless
• Atari created the first wireless controllers in the 1980s
• It created more mobility for the player• The problem of tangled game controller
wires was solved
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Todays Controllers
• YOU!• The XBOX kinect has sensors, lasors, and
cameras that follow your movement therefore the only controller is your body
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Tomorrows Controllers
• Your mind• Being able to play the
game by simply thinking about it
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• http://www.slipperybrick.com/2009/03/atari-vcs-2600/
• http://imageshack.us/f/136/bild18yp2.png/• http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,20292
21,00.html• http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/magod
yssey.htm• http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp• http://coedmagazine.com/2010/10/13/a-pictorial-hist
ory-of-video-game-controllers/