History of Game Design Electronic Games Timeline Credit to TIME: line

History of Game Design

Electronic Games Timeline

Credit to TIME:http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050523/console_timeline/

First Console: The Brown Box

Odyssey Console

Pong: From Sears

Atari 2600: The Cartridges

Intellivision: Synthesized Voices

Nintendo: Saved Game Market

GameBoy:Handheld Game

NEO-GEO:24-Bit

Super NES

PlayStation: Most Popular 32-Bit

Nintendo 64: Cartridges

PS2: First 128-Bit System

Xbox: Microsoft’s First Console

Game Boy Adventure: 32000 colors

Nintendo DS: Dual Screens

Upcoming Consoles: Pandora

Upcoming Consoles: On Live

Upcoming Consoles: PSP GO

Sony

The First Computer Game

In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interaction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a EDSAC vacuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.

The EDSAC was the world's first stored-program computer to operate a regular computing service. Designed and built at Cambridge University, England, the EDSAC performed its first calculation on May 06, 1949.

Simulation of game on EDSAC

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The EDSAC, taken shortly after its completion in May 1949


EDSAC under construction, c.1948


Adjusting CRT monitor tubes, which showed contents of memory and registers


Print out from the EDSAC's first programs


Key punching a program for the EDSAC


The Second Computer Game

William Higinbotham, head of the Brookhaven National Laboratory's

Instrumentation Division in 1958, is thinking about how to entertain the

people who will be touring the place in the fall. So, he does something that he

thinks is fairly obvious. He puts together a little electronic circuit to play tennis on

an oscilloscope. It takes him three weeks.

“Tennis for Two”

History of Game Design

The history of game development can be broken down into: The older more traditional board games The more recent electric game

History of Electric Game Design

Video Games The first path started in 1951 when Martin Bromley

launched Sega. Sega was originally founded in 1940 as Standard Games

Martin Bromley, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert provided coin-operated amusements for American servicemen on military bases.

Bromley suggested that the company move to Tokyo, Japan in 1951 and in May 1952 "SErvice GAmes of Japan" was registered.

This development launched the coin-operated games of the 1970s called Video Games.

These games later developed into the console games of today

History of Electric Game Design

Computer Games Started in colleges and universities College programmers wanted to practice their

skills and entertain themselves during breaks Their efforts resulted in mainframe games that

came on the market with the personal computer revolution.

These types of games were called computer games.

History of Video Games Arcade Games: Early arcade

games consisted of Electromechanical pinball located

in small amusement parks. As the games became more

popular, the arcades

became more accessible. Locations were now closer to schools and in local neighborhoods.

These arcades became a very popular hangout area.

Pinball Machine of this era includes:

Video Games – Space War

Developed in 1961 by Steve Russell a MIT student. The game started as a mainframe game and later

marketed as Computer Space in the coin-op arcades of 1971.

This game is believed to have started the “coin-op” industry.

In 1978, Space Wars was introduced and adapted from the original game.

Video Games – Space Wars


Steve Russell programmed the first version of Spacewar!


Two players using the front-panel of a PDP-12 to play Spacewar at the Vintage Computer Festival

Video Games – Pong

In 1958, Willy Higginbotham of Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York released a primitive table tennis game.

Magnavox Odyssey later converted it to a “table tennis” game in 1970.

Atari released “Pong” in 1972 and became the first successful coin-op arcade game.

Magnavox sued Atari over the idea and it was settled out of court.



An early PONG chip made in October 1975


Ultra PONG Doubles (model C-402D):same for up to 4 players

PONG (model C-100): Atari's first system (1976)It played only one game: PONG


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1976Television Magazine (England) July 1977


Video Games – Asteroids

Atari later developed a very successful arcade game - Asteroids, which became the first blockbuster for Atari.

It was also the first game to allow users to enter their initials after they achieved a high score.

This game, developed by Ed Long, used monochrome vector graphics, instead of pixels.


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2007 Paul Neave www.neave.com

Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza

Atari owner Nolan Bushnell

Pizza with your game-Atari owner Nolan Bushnell wanted

to clean up the stigma associated with video

arcades, so he placed video games in a pizza parlor.

Known as Chuck E. Cheese, customers were offered

tokens with their orders. They could play games while

waiting for pizza.

Space Invaders

•The first "slide-and-shoot" game.•players pilot a laser base that moves right and left along the bottom, firing upward at descending aliens.• The player's job is to destroy the invaders before they reach the bottom .•Eliminating the Mystery Ship that flies intermittently over the top row of invaders will earn Bonus points. •players can hide under bunkers that erode piece-by-piece •first game to post a continuous high score. •Has menacing sound effects, addictive gameplay and a high degree of character design and animation. •Enormously popular, more than 60,000 machines sold in its first year in the U.S. •It was such a hit in Japan it caused a shortage of the 100-yen piece used to play the game.

Pac Man

Pac Man was released in 1980, by Namco. It appealed to a larger market with out the shooter aspect. Over 300,000 units were sold making Pac-man the most popular game in arcade history. Pac-man had levels and in later spin offs. Ms. Pac man used plot structure and animated sequences. The Ms. Pac-man game also appealed to girls and families thus widening

the market.

Centipede

Centipede, Atari Inc., 1981. Designed by Ed Logg and Dona Bailey, Centipede was the first arcade game from a woman designer. Colorful graphics and ingenious game play made Centipede the first game to attract more female fans than male.

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong

Nintendo released Donkey Kong in 1981 when arcades were new and popular. Gas stations, fast food places and other restaurants were sure to have one of the many one-quarter arcades that had been produced. Players controlled a construction worker (or carpenter) known as Jumpman who tried to get back his girlfriend Pauline from a huge gorilla known as Donkey Kong (which means "Stupid Monkey") by jumping over several obstacles and climbing up ladders. The single-screen game was a big hit

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