The Beginning for Gamers

The Beginning for Gamers

the very firs video game ever created was you can say created by a rebellious nuclear physicist William Higinbatham. I say video game because, "The term “video” implies that electronic signals are converted to images on a screen using a raster pattern, a series of horizontal lines composed of individual pixels."  William Higinbatham took a military oscilloscope played around with it for while and wa-la the first game of PONG was created. 

In the 1960's the Race for Space was huge it was the topic of the world and the beginning of video games were right behind it. If you love video games you can thank the military. The had the best of the best including technology and at this point in time their was this computer called the PD1P and Steve Russel had master it. Steve Russel is the creator of Space wars it took him and a fellow associate 200 hours to complete. in February 1962 the game had its first created version. obviously the game had upgrades threw out time. You could play this game at a computer, "It is a two-player game, with each player taking control of a star ship and attempting to destroy the other. A star in the center of the screen pulls on both ships and requires maneuvering to avoid falling into it. In an emergency, a player can enter hyperspace to return at a random location on the screen, but only at the risk of exploding if it is used too often."  The game quickly, very quickly became the worlds most popular game for a few years. Mainly because it was the only video game out.

One man one idea, some call him the Thomas Edison of video games he is the creator of the very first home gaming counsel system. Were not talking about Atari here. We are talking the Very First home counsel gaming system. What system is it? Who created it? What am I reading? 

The Magnavox Odyssey was the very first home gaming counsel. It began its production in 1968, not released until 1972.  Under the code name of the "Brown Box". Ralph Bare was the genius behind it. 

Ralph Bare was a Vietnam soilder and then became Chief Engineer and manager of the Equipment Design Division at Sanders Associates. Baer created a simple two-player video game that could be displayed on a standard television set called Chase, where two dots chased each other around the screen. After a demonstration to the company's director of R&D Herbert Campman, some funding was allotted and the project was made official. Once the funding was in place the those two dots turned in to a game of Pong. By the the time the "Brown Box" was released to the public their were 16 different games that you could play. The games where changed by switches that where built into the box itself. You didnt go out to the store and buy a new game. Not in this generation of gaming. 

What this generation of gaming, the very first home counsel did have tho was thos the 16 switches for you to change your game, two controllers so you and your buddies could sit around your tv an play for hours like we all do now. and a light gun that was used for your shooter game. Don't we all wish that much stuff came with the systems we bought today? 

You can see why some call him the Thomas Edison of the video games. He brought them to your house!!! Im sure im saying this for every gamer out their. Thank You Ralph Bare.

This was  only the beginning of video games we all  have a pretty damn good idea of where the games are now. Xbox one Ps4 PC and the new virtual; reality they are working. with in the last 40-50 years gaming has come a long long long way since Pong.We all love the classics lol. We can only imagine what the next ten years of gaming is going to bring to use. Frankly I can wait to find out. 

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