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Revision as of 19:58, 8 January 2015 by 162.127.144.252 (talk) (→History)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)There are numerous debates over which game should be considered the first video game, with the answer depending largely on how video games are defined. The evolution of video games represents a tangled web of several different industries, including scientific, computer, arcade, and consumer electronics.
The "video" in "video game" traditionally refers to a raster display device. With the popular catch phrase use of the term "video game", the term later came to imply all display types, formats, and platforms.
Historians have also sought to bypass the issue by instead using the more specific "digital games" descriptive. This term leaves out the earlier analog-based computer games.
See also
Notes and references
- Cite error: The named reference
Pong Story: Main Page
was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - The Game Innovation Database
External links
- Research
- Ralph H. Baer Papers, 1943–1953, 1966–1972, 2006 – Ralph Baer's prototypes and documentation housed at the Smithsonian Lemelson Center.
- pong-story.com
- Classic Gaming Expo 2000: Baer Describes the Birth of Videogames
- Videogames Turn 40 at 1UP.com.
- Game emulation
- EDSAC Emulator (to play OXO)
- NIM Interactive Simulation for Be OS operating system
- Spacewar! Java Emulation
- Tennis for Two Simulation