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William Higinbotham created "Tennis for Two"
William Higinbotham had become interested in what he can do with computers after he had spent years working on the Manhattan project. He decided to make a little two player game called "Tennis for Two" where a little ball bounces side to side on the computer and the player has to make sure the ball doesn't go off the screen by hitting it back and forth to each other. -
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Video Game History
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The Magnavox Odyssey
The Odyssey was considered the very first home video game console and was created by Magnavox. The console was designed by Ralph H. Baer. -
Second generation consoles
Second generation consoles came to the scene with Fairchild Semiconductor's Fairchild VES Later renamed (Fairchild Channel F) the worlds first CPU based gaming console. -
Atari 2600
The Atari popularized microprocessor based hardware and games stored on ROM cartridges which was a format used with the Fairchild Channel F. -
Nintendo
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Koppai by a craftsman named Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced homemade hanafuda playing cards. Two of their very first video games were called "Bandido(aka Sheriff) and "Radar Scope". -
The creation of the NES
The NES was the first Nintendo console to release and was designed by Uemura Masayuki and it was released as the Famicon. -
Gameboy
The Game Boy had released in 1989 and was the first hand held console which made it easier for people to play while traveling or just laying in your bed playing games instead of having to have a TV to play on. -
Ken Kutaragi and PlayStation
The PlayStation was made by Sony Entertainment and was Sony's first gaming console. Ken Kutaragi had designed the PlayStation and had come up with the idea to make a gaming console. He came up with the idea by watching his daughter play the NES. In 1994 it was released in Japan and in 1995 it was released in North America -
Start of the Resident Evil Franchise
Resident Evil was one of the PlayStation games that was released in 1996 first in Japan then in other countries like North America. The topic of the game is a zombie apocalypse with creatures that a corrupt government agency made with a virus. It starts in a city named Raccoon City but is eventually spread across the world and there are different variants of the virus too. In the game you have to find out what started the infected outbreaks. -
The start of Sony and PlayStation Evolution
Sony got into making video games and consoles after making the PS one and the next PlayStation that Sony made was PlayStation 2. It was also first released in Japan on March 4, 2000 before it was released in North America on October 24, 2000. It sold over 155 million copies and people started seeing improvement in video game graphics. The PS 2 also competed with Microsoft's Xbox, Nintendo's GameCube, and Sega's Dream Cast. The PS 2 was backwards compatible with the PS 1's games and controllers. -
The Evolution of Resident Evil
The evolution of the Resident Evil graphics and game play have gotten better and more interactive with the environment and combat. The graphics have come to HD and the combat has also become more manageable with the camera angles. The Resident Evil Franchise has grown a lot since it was first released on PlayStation. It is now on all consoles including PC. The developers of Resident Evil make remakes to update game the game to the modern time but also to keep people playing the series. -
Video Games of 2024
The video games of 2024 have been released on modern day consoles like PS 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The graphics of the games and development of the games have grown along with the development of the consoles. People have been playing video games for years and generations. In 2024 there are expected to be 3.32 billion gamers worldwide.