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A Brief History of Gaming. Tic-Tac-Toe ’52 – first CRT Tennis-for-two ’58 – pong on o-scope Space War ’61 – 1 st widely dist. Atari’s Pong ’72 – 1 st popular arcade Wump , Adventure ’72 – 1 st text adventures Death Race ’76 – 1 st controversial Atari 2600 ’77 – 1 st cartridge console
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A Brief History of Gaming • Tic-Tac-Toe ’52 – first CRT • Tennis-for-two ’58 – pong on o-scope • Space War ’61 – 1st widely dist. • Atari’s Pong ’72 – 1st popular arcade • Wump , Adventure ’72 – 1st text adventures • Death Race ’76 – 1st controversial • Atari 2600 ’77 – 1st cartridge console • Zork ’77 – 1st commercially successful text adventure • Space Wars ’78 – 1st vector arcade • Space Invaders ‘78 – 1st high score • MUD ’79 – 1st multi-user adventure • Pac-Man ’80 – most popular arcade
A Brief History of Gaming • CRASH of ’83! • Nintendo ’85 – revived industry • Game Boy ‘89 – 1st popular handheld • Doom ’93, DKC ’94 – 1st popular 3D FPS • Playstation, Nintento 64, Sega – battle of format • EverQuest, Lineage – successful MMORPG • PlayStation 2 ‘00– 1st DVD, dynamic 3D • Nokia N-Gage ‘03 – 1st multi-function handheld • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion ‘06 – today’s State of the Art
Nintendo Timeline • 1889 – Playing cards • 1960s – Light gun arcades • 1970s – Oddysey distributor • Color TV Game 6 • 1981 – Donkey Kong arcade • 1983 – Famicom (Family Computer) • 1985 American release of NES • 1991 – SNES • 1996 - Nintendo 64 – 1st 3D • 2001 - Nintendo Gamecube • 2006 – Nintendo Revolution
Nintendo Milestones • Longest running console manufacturer • The NES introduced three very important concepts to the video game system industry: • Using a pad controller instead of a joystick • Creating authentic reproductions of arcade video games for the home system • Using the hardware as a loss leader by aggressively pricing it, then making a profit on the games themselves • Console lockout “Seal of Quality” • Cartridge in N64 • 1994 Donkey Kong Country - scanned 3D model sprites
Sega Timeline • 1940 – Standard Games formed in Hawaii • 1951 – Moves to Tokyo, becomes SErvice Games (SEGA) – coin op games • 1965 – Merges with Rosen Enterprises • Rosen leads sale to Gulf & Western • 1984 – Sega Enterprises Ltd. formed in Japan. • 1990 – Sega Genesis (16bit) • 1994 – Sega Channel • 1994 – Sega Saturn • 1999 – Sega Dreamcast (128bit) • 2001 – Multi-platform development
Sega Milestones • Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) • Virtua Fighter (non-violence policy) • ChuChu Rocket (2000) – 1st online console
Sony Timeline • 1946 – Tokyo Tsuchin Kogyo formed • Repairing electrical equipment • 1954 – licenses transistor, makes radio, • Changes name to Sony (sonus) • 1975 – Betamax VCR • 1979 – Walkman • 1982 – CD player • 1988 – 1992 Nintendo CD-ROM drives • 1995 – Playstation ($300M investment) • 2000 – Playstation 2 • 2006 – Playstation 3
Microsoft Timeline • 1975 - Paul Allen and Bill Gates develop a BASIC Interpreter for Altair 8800. • 1976 – Microsoft formed • 1981 – IBM PC released w/ Microsoft DOS • 1985 – Microsoft Windows • 1990s- Collaborates w/Sega on Dreamcast WinCE • 1990s – Home and Entertainment Group formed • Age of Empires series, Combat Flight Simulator, Crimson Skies, Metal Gear Solid, etc. • 1999 – Xbox planned • 2001 – Xbox US release • 2002 – Xbox Live • $1.2 billion in losses through 2/2005 • 2005 – Xbox 360
Trivia Part 1 • The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the system Sega Net. • The Microsoft Xbox is the first system to completely support HDTV. • The Magnavox Odyssey (1972) contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42M transistors • The PlayStation 2 is the first system to have graphics capability better than that of the leading-edge PC at the time of its release. • The Nintendo N64 was first time that computer graphics workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) developed game hardware. • While the original Atari Football game was first created in 1973, it wasn't released until 1978. It was delayed because the game couldn't scroll the screen -- players couldn't move beyond the area shown on the monitor. When the game was finally released, it became the first game to utilize scrolling. • The Atari Pong console was the No. 1 selling item for the 1975 holiday season. • The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console (1976).
Trivia Part 2 • The PlayStation 2 is the first video game system to use DVDs. • The Nintendo GameCube's 1.5G disc holds 190X more than N64. • On the market 1991 till 2004, the SNK NeoGeo AES has tied the Atari 2600 (1977-1990) as the longest supported gaming console in history. • The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer. • Mattel's Intellivison system, introduced in 1980, featured an add-on called "PlayCable," which delivered games by cable TV. • Nintendo's Game Boy is the most successful game system ever, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide. • In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for AOL. • The first color portable video game system was the Atari Lynx, introduced in 1989 and priced at $149. • Introduced in 1993, the 3DO was the first video game system to be based entirely on CD technology. • The Sony PlayStation was originally intended as a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. When licensing problems and other issues arose, Sony decided to develop the PlayStation as a machine of its own.
