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The History Of Arcade Games

Gaming today is a recognized element of fantasies and sci-fi visions into digital
our cultural scenery, even to people who applications which we are still using.
are over thirty or who can barely recall Their imaginations have turned gaming
the time before arcade games were into a digital masterpiece.
invented. Gone are the days when you The perception of establishing an
would play Pac-Man or the famous Mario electronic game system to the screen or
Brothers game. Although they are still the television was invented by Ralph
played and enjoyed today, they have been Bauer during the early 1950's. This made
enhanced into dimensional games and the first game possible. After that, he
versions. People will never forget the introduced and presented his ideas to
old games and that's a good thing because Magnavox, a television company. The
there is a history here that shouldn't be company liked his ideas and inventions so
forgotten. well that they have released a
Gaming is not a recent breakthrough. sophisticated version of Bauer's "Brown
Arcade games began many years ago. They Box" prototype, known as the Magnavox
weren't as acceptable as they are now. Odyssey in 1972. By today's standards,
Artifacts from Egypt and Sumeria have the Odyssey was prehistoric, displaying
revealed that our ancestors enjoyed only spots of light on the screen. It
playing board games thousands of years also required the use of translucent
ago. plastic overlays to replicate the
The electronic games we have now required appearance of the game.
the creation of electronic computers. The The first truly popular console system
early computers were slow and prone to was known as the Atari 2600. It was
failures. Early programmers felt obliged released in 1977. The Atari made use of
to waste their time by programming these plug-in cartridges in order to play a
computers to do things like tic-tac-toe. variety of games. The popularity of Space
When World War II ended, electronic Invaders was a breakthrough and it became
computers started becoming standard a best seller during that time. The
equipment in the more progressive computer games written for the TRS-80 and
laboratories. Soon afterwards, they were Apple II computers were attracting
incorporated with large corporations, interest at this time.
establishments and companies. It can be There are several books and articles
argued that university students were the about the history of arcade games.
first game programmers, exploring their




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