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http://googlesightseeing.com/locality/continents/north-america/states/northcarolina/page/2/ http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_us.html#NEWxMEXICO. History of Video Game Consoles. Ralph Baer. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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History of Video Game Consoles
Ralph Baer
The genius behind all this and thus one of the pioneers of video gaming is Ralph Baer. Already in the early 50's he began thinking for the first time about using television for playing games.
• Also in vented Simon
Pong- one of the first games to be released (1972)
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1972 Pong
• First widely available video game
• http://www.bafta.org/awards/video-games/play-pong-online,678,BA.html
Atari Pong- 1975
http://www.thegameconsole.com/
• Many consoles were created, but went belly up
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Telstar 1976- 1 million units sold
1976 Color began to be introduced
• http://www.2600online.com/videopinball.html
• http://www.2600online.com/
• 1979 Lunar Lander
Early 1980s Atari 5200
• http://www.webworksllc.com/games/Invaders.cfm
1979-1982
• The most popular games were Spaces Shooting Games or Sports
1982 Vetrex
• Had it’s own monitor
Coleco 1982
• First to offer Donkey Kong
1985 Nintendo Entertainment System
• The gold standard for video game systems
• It put Nintendo on the map and kept them there.
• The most popular game series of all time was introduced..
• Online play
• Atari came and went • SEGA began its introduction
1987
• http://www.nescafeweb.com/game.play.php?gameid=3
1989 Sega Release the Genesis
• Knocked Nintendo of the top
• The most popular game on the genesis was Sonic
• 1• 2
1991
• SEGA dominated the market, but Nintendo came back with the SNES
• Kirby became a popular game
• Nintendo went to Sony to develop a cd reading game console
• They deal went bust and thus we now have the Sony Playstation line
Websites Used:
• http://www.thegameconsole.com/videogames94.htm
• http://www.dan-dare.info/