Video games are always increasing in popularity and their sales are huge worldwide. They are competing very well with music sales in stores. There are many amazing games out there that will thrill and entertain you for many hours.
Games (video) were invented after the invention of computers because a processor is required to make graphics on the screen, tracking player interaction, keeping score and assuming the role of game referee or another player. Computer video games can be very easily run on home PCs. The difference between video games and electronic games is the addition of screen as compared to electronic board games that may produce sounds only.
Very early computers used oscilloscopes to plot the movement of a dot on a screen or to display a character in a specific position. With the very early games you used to get a piece of clear film to position over the screen to provide some extra info. The very first video game was written on an EDSAC computer at Cambridge by Alexander Douglas back in the 1950's. The game was a simple version of Tic Tac Toe. This is reported to have been the very first video game, but had very little influence as it couldn't be played at Cambridge.
Another game was developed in the late 1950's by William Higinbotham. It also used an oscilloscope for displaying the game. This game was a very simple version of a tennis game. In the game a dot went from one side to the other side and players needed to turn dials to hit the ball and return it back to the other player on the opposite side.
The game Spacewar was the first game that you could play on more than one computer. The game was written by Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen and Steven Russell for the DEC PDP-1 platform back in 1961. The source code was shared and among the academic society it was played on several machines. It was therefore known as the first video game.
The very first game which could be played on a TV was called Chase and it was written by Ralph Baer back in 1967. It was played on a console developed by Sanders Associates. It was licensed to Magnavox and sold over 100,000 units. It was also shipped with several other games developed by the firm. These patents of Ralph Baer were also licensed to a company called Atari who went on to develop the biggest and most successful arcade console of the 1970's and 1980's. The rest is history.
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