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Histo ry o f Video Games

CS481/CS681

Fall 2007


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Summary

1931 Pinball machine

1971, first commercial

game introduced

2 game market crashes $10,000,000,000 industry

Seven generations of

hardware Whats the future?


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Pinbal l

Bally Manufacturing

Williams Manufacturing

Midway Games

Created the production,

distribution, and consumerchannels used by video

game industry


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Japan (Pre-h isto ry )

Early coin operated companies established by

foreigners

Taito, (Sega + Rosen Enterprises = Sega Enterprises)

1966Periscope

Imported to the US and Europe, expensive

Set the 25 cent price for coin operated machines

Meanwhile, back in the US ... computers rising


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Electronic / Compu ter games

(Prehistory)

1948: Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device

patent for electronic game. Vacuum tubes

controlled missiles firing at a target

1951: Transistors replacing vacuum tubes at

university computers. Students want games.

Checkers (1951)

TTT (1952)

Nimrod played Nim (UK)


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Bir th

Spacewar, 1962, MITstudents wanted to test

the capabilities of their new

DEC PDP-1

Gravity, warp

Widely distributed by DEC

Other games were not

distributed (no internet)


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Commercial izat ion

1971: Galaxy Game

Clone of Spacewar

Stanford, 10 cents in student union

Ran until 1979

Bushnell, Dabney created custom

arcade hardware for Spacewar

clone - failure...

June 27, 1972 Bushnell/Dabney

found Atari Inc. ... meanwhile...


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Pong

Al Alcorn, Ataris first game engineer

1972: Implemented Pong

Atari tried to get Ballys to manufacture it

Machine malfunctioned during demo because it

was too full of coins!

Atari decided to forget Ballys and go into

manufacturing!

Many Pong clones competed


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Golden Age of arcade games (2)

1978:Space Invaders, (Taito) high score, no name

1979, Star Fire, (Exidy), initials

1979, Atari Football, smooth scrolling scree,

trackball controller

Many Companies entered the business

Konami, Namco, Irem, SNK, Technos Japan.

Galaga, Defender, Scramble, Moon patrol


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Maze Games: Pac-Man

1980, Namco, Originally Puck-man but changed

name before releasing in the US.

Best selling arcade game up to that point

First identifiable video character

Cover of Time

1981, MIT students enhancement kits for pac-man

ended up producing Ms. Pac-Man (4 mazes)

1982, Namco, Pole Position, Racing, POV


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Platform Games

1981, Donkey Kong,

Nintendo

1982, Donkey Kong

Junior introduced

Mario

1983: Elevator Action


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Tech

1972: handheld TTT

1976: game cartridges

1977: Joystick

Vector graphics

1979: Asteroids, others (but died after 1983 and raster)

Laserdisc

1983: Dragons Lair, animated sequences, interactive

movie


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80s

1982: EA born

PCs, game source code printed in magazines

Commodore 64

1983, Snipes, first networked commerical text-

mode game

Maze War (university research game)

Spasim (3d multiplayer space sim), precursor to Doom

and Quake

Handheld LCD console


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Crash of 1983

Too many companies, too many bad games

So many ET the Extra Terrestrial game cartridges

were left over that they had to be buried in a big

hole in NM!

Lasted One Year!


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Video game consoles (3)

Nintendo, NES (Famicon), Super Mario Brothers

Gamepad

8 direction D pad with 2 or more action buttons 1986: Dragon Quest precursor to RPG

1987: Final Fantasy, Role playing game

1986: Legend of Zelda

1988: Nintendo Power Magazine


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90s (4)

Rising to match Hollywood

3D graphics, sound cards, CDs, fast PCs

Internet based distribution, shareware,

1992: RTS games, Dune II set the std.

Warcraft, C&C, StarCraft

1993: Myst, and adventure puzzle game

Sim games: Sim city, SimEarth,...The Sims (2000)

Mods, Counterstrike, Half Life mod


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In ternet Gam ing

Multi-User Dungeons

1996: Quake, FPS

MMORPGS: Ultima Online, Everquest

Persistent worlds, large numbers of players

Java/Flash back to simple games

Decline of arcades, rise of home consoles, PCs


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4, 5, 6, 7 generations

Sega Genesis, Super NES

Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation, Nintendo 64

DDR

Sega Dreamcast, Playstation2, Game Cube, Xbox

Sims, Halo, GTA, Halo 2, GTA San Andreas, Guitar

Hero

PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS

Spore Demo


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Future

Where is it heading?

Graphics

Physics

AI

Immersion, Realism, ...

Holodeck

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