The System That Predates The Fairchild

FDSMAN · Post by **FDSMAN** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:11 pm

http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:16 pm

Ever wonder what came before the Odyssey 2?

nos_slived · Post by **nos_slived** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:19 pm

The Odyssey 1?

G-Prime · Post by **G-Prime** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 9:46 pm

I think the first game ever invented was "Tennis for Two". It was run on a computer about the size of a washing machine. I had to do a report on the history of Videogames.

*o* · Post by ***o*** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:00 am

i remember 1 like this it used a screen overlay and had a large white dot that went in a straight line you pressed a button to serve it back

Nes Man · Post by **Nes Man** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:42 am

The first system was the brown box (a prototype for the original Odyssey). Basicly nothing is different between the two systems.

Post by **Triton** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:22 pm

the first comercially available video game was computer space http://www.klov.com/C/Computer_Space.html

TuzenTCA · Post by **TuzenTCA** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:57 pm

Go contact Ralph H. Baer and pick up his new book.

Lucretius · Post by **Lucretius** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:47 pm

The first video game was developed by William A. Higinbotham in 1958. The game was Tennis for Two, a game similar to the later game variant Pong. It was a two-player game, viewed on an oscilloscope, and controlled by two controllers handcrafted by Higinbotham out of spare metal boxes each with a dial and a button. Little is known as to how the game was played, but most speculate that the dial controlled gravity and the button acted as the paddle. The game wasnâ€™t designed as a game, but more as a test, so it wasnâ€™t fun like a game by todayâ€™s standards.

In 1960, Steve Russell, Wayne Witanen, and J. Martin Graetz, students at MIT got the idea to use one of the schoolâ€™s new â€œmonitorsâ€