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Evolution Of Video Games

This presentation is a powerpoint of the evolution of video games and a timeline of video games as well as facts to support it

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THE EVOLUTION OF VIDEO GAMES

BY PATRICK GONCALVES AND RYAN LI
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1889: Nintendo creates playing cards: Fusajiro Yamauchi founds Nintendo in Japan but instead of selling video games they sold playing cards.

1952: First computer game was created: A.S Douglas, a student at the University of Cambridge creates the documented computer game called Noughts and Crosses which is a tic-tac-toe game.

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1956: Spacewars: MIT analysts make a primary PC based computer game called Spacewars, however the game was made with very expensive hardware so it could not be mass produced.

1964: Computer programming language arrives: Hungarian-American mathematician John Kemeny, a previous research colleague to Albert Einstein, co-builds BASIC PC programming dialect that empowers the making of computer games not far off.

1971: First commercial arcade game: Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who later discovered Atari, make Computer Space, which is the first ever commercially sold arcade game

1972: First ever home console: Magnavox, an american electronics company releases Odyssey, the first ever console that can be plugged into a TV. It includes 12 games.

1972: The rise of Atari: Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn from Atari create Pong, which was initially appointed to Alcorn as an organization preparing exercise. Rather, the title turns into the primary industrially fruitful arcade amusement. Pong drives the route for other computer game advancement since organizations started making thump offs of Pong and Atari, along these lines, was pushed to grow more diversions. In 1975, Atari discharges a home form of Pong.

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