THE BATTLE FOR THE FIRST VIDEO GAME IN HISTORY
ebook ∣ From World War II to the arcades
By Jon Bardo
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WANT TO KNOW HOW THE PASSION FOR VIRTUAL GAMES ORIGINATED?
Most video game enthusiasts know that the PONG arcade machine started the craze for electronic entertainment. But what happened before that, and how did it get to that point?
The first video games were nothing more than experimental laboratory tests or means to showcase computer novelties at exhibition fairs. There was no commercial interest. Therefore, it is difficult to guess which was the first one and where and how it was developed.
The battle to find out which was the first video game in history is rather a struggle between later scholars and video game fans eager to know the origin of this great passion and hobby. And that is what is addressed in this book: the evolution from the very concept of automated virtual entertainment, to the various candidates to claim to be the first video game in history.
In this book you will enjoy:
- The origin of computers and the Turing machine.
- The first interactive electronic game: the cathode ray entertainment device.
- The first computer video games? Bertie the Brain and Nimrod
- The first game on a screen: OXO
- More candidates for the first video game in history: Mouse in the Maze and text video games
- Spacewar!, the final culmination of the origin of video games.
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