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Where it all started a time journey
Computer games have been around for a while but how did it all start?
The computer has been around 50+ years and then they were as big as houses nearly, and were used for calculators and trying to investigate space which was a big thing in the 50’s in America as the space race was on. These computers were massive and some were as big as houses. Students mostly used these to play a space game where there is just a spaceship against a spaceship. Paper strips with holes in which the computer read ran this game.
In the 70’s Atari came along with something so original… pong!! This was put into arcades round the whole world, the instructions were simple: insert money, ball will serve automatically and stop ball from hitting edge to get high score. Atari made so much money from this arcade game, as everyone didn’t think about how much money they deposited, just about there high scores. But while the world was playing pong Japan had Chinko (don’t know exactly how to spell) a pinball game type thing that had the millions of Japanese people playing for hours on end. But that all changed when the best of em all game along… Space invaders. It was so successful and the most money making of anything they had ever seen, and even released a sound track, which was very catchy.
It originated from breakout a game where you shoot the blocks, and was really easy so the inventor wanted a game where the blocks shoot back. The alien enemies were the first animated characters ever made. 6 Months after release in the arcades space invaders, the police restricted the opening hours of them so no one would stay up all night. In 1979 Warner Bros bought Atari for $30 million. After that Atari made endless space game e.g. Asteroids and defender, which was one of my favourite games for the Atari.
Pacman was the next big thing selling $16,000,000 for Namco in one year. Originally it was named puckman but it caused some name stipulation if you know what I mean, so they changed it to Pacman. After the Atari was the spectrum, which was the start of home console playing all over the world. Parents bought the computer for studying aids, but it was mainly used for gaming. As there was a keyboard with this, there was the option to create a game of your own. It was quite hard so magazines gave out codes to make small platform games but they weren’t very good. There were several brilliant games but Manic Miner had to be the most popular.
After the spectrum the whole arcade and console market went down hill, with hundreds of big arcades closing over the world and the making of consoles stopped as well.
It wasn’t until 1985 that Miyamoto came along with Nintendo and the smash hit Mario bros that was really popular for the super nes. Also came the creation of Donkey Kong the cool ape hit Nintendo with much force. Then In 1989 came the Gameboy, which was meant for adults and children, with its massive game Tetris.
From there the psx ruled the airways for 5 or so years and now here we are with 128 bit graphics, but just to wonder was space invaders better than Zelda?
Anyway cheers for reading
Time_Warp
Computer games have been around for a while but how did it all start?
The computer has been around 50+ years and then they were as big as houses nearly, and were used for calculators and trying to investigate space which was a big thing in the 50’s in America as the space race was on. These computers were massive and some were as big as houses. Students mostly used these to play a space game where there is just a spaceship against a spaceship. Paper strips with holes in which the computer read ran this game.
In the 70’s Atari came along with something so original… pong!! This was put into arcades round the whole world, the instructions were simple: insert money, ball will serve automatically and stop ball from hitting edge to get high score. Atari made so much money from this arcade game, as everyone didn’t think about how much money they deposited, just about there high scores. But while the world was playing pong Japan had Chinko (don’t know exactly how to spell) a pinball game type thing that had the millions of Japanese people playing for hours on end. But that all changed when the best of em all game along… Space invaders. It was so successful and the most money making of anything they had ever seen, and even released a sound track, which was very catchy.
It originated from breakout a game where you shoot the blocks, and was really easy so the inventor wanted a game where the blocks shoot back. The alien enemies were the first animated characters ever made. 6 Months after release in the arcades space invaders, the police restricted the opening hours of them so no one would stay up all night. In 1979 Warner Bros bought Atari for $30 million. After that Atari made endless space game e.g. Asteroids and defender, which was one of my favourite games for the Atari.
Pacman was the next big thing selling $16,000,000 for Namco in one year. Originally it was named puckman but it caused some name stipulation if you know what I mean, so they changed it to Pacman. After the Atari was the spectrum, which was the start of home console playing all over the world. Parents bought the computer for studying aids, but it was mainly used for gaming. As there was a keyboard with this, there was the option to create a game of your own. It was quite hard so magazines gave out codes to make small platform games but they weren’t very good. There were several brilliant games but Manic Miner had to be the most popular.
After the spectrum the whole arcade and console market went down hill, with hundreds of big arcades closing over the world and the making of consoles stopped as well.
It wasn’t until 1985 that Miyamoto came along with Nintendo and the smash hit Mario bros that was really popular for the super nes. Also came the creation of Donkey Kong the cool ape hit Nintendo with much force. Then In 1989 came the Gameboy, which was meant for adults and children, with its massive game Tetris.
From there the psx ruled the airways for 5 or so years and now here we are with 128 bit graphics, but just to wonder was space invaders better than Zelda?
Anyway cheers for reading
Time_Warp
Hey Time_Warp this has been done before... by... er someone, I think it was rippin'time (now knownas monkey with attitude)
Where's my beloved Sega in all of that?
Not that you were watching 'Thumb Candy' last night or anything.....
Thanks for letting us know the synopsis of the programme.
:-)
Thanks for letting us know the synopsis of the programme.
:-)
Where it all started a time journey
Computer games have been around for a while but how did it all start?
The computer has been around 50+ years and then they were as big as houses nearly, and were used for calculators and trying to investigate space which was a big thing in the 50’s in America as the space race was on. These computers were massive and some were as big as houses. Students mostly used these to play a space game where there is just a spaceship against a spaceship. Paper strips with holes in which the computer read ran this game.
In the 70’s Atari came along with something so original… pong!! This was put into arcades round the whole world, the instructions were simple: insert money, ball will serve automatically and stop ball from hitting edge to get high score. Atari made so much money from this arcade game, as everyone didn’t think about how much money they deposited, just about there high scores. But while the world was playing pong Japan had Chinko (don’t know exactly how to spell) a pinball game type thing that had the millions of Japanese people playing for hours on end. But that all changed when the best of em all game along… Space invaders. It was so successful and the most money making of anything they had ever seen, and even released a sound track, which was very catchy.
It originated from breakout a game where you shoot the blocks, and was really easy so the inventor wanted a game where the blocks shoot back. The alien enemies were the first animated characters ever made. 6 Months after release in the arcades space invaders, the police restricted the opening hours of them so no one would stay up all night. In 1979 Warner Bros bought Atari for $30 million. After that Atari made endless space game e.g. Asteroids and defender, which was one of my favourite games for the Atari.
Pacman was the next big thing selling $16,000,000 for Namco in one year. Originally it was named puckman but it caused some name stipulation if you know what I mean, so they changed it to Pacman. After the Atari was the spectrum, which was the start of home console playing all over the world. Parents bought the computer for studying aids, but it was mainly used for gaming. As there was a keyboard with this, there was the option to create a game of your own. It was quite hard so magazines gave out codes to make small platform games but they weren’t very good. There were several brilliant games but Manic Miner had to be the most popular.
After the spectrum the whole arcade and console market went down hill, with hundreds of big arcades closing over the world and the making of consoles stopped as well.
It wasn’t until 1985 that Miyamoto came along with Nintendo and the smash hit Mario bros that was really popular for the super nes. Also came the creation of Donkey Kong the cool ape hit Nintendo with much force. Then In 1989 came the Gameboy, which was meant for adults and children, with its massive game Tetris.
From there the psx ruled the airways for 5 or so years and now here we are with 128 bit graphics, but just to wonder was space invaders better than Zelda?
Anyway cheers for reading
Time_Warp
Computer games have been around for a while but how did it all start?
The computer has been around 50+ years and then they were as big as houses nearly, and were used for calculators and trying to investigate space which was a big thing in the 50’s in America as the space race was on. These computers were massive and some were as big as houses. Students mostly used these to play a space game where there is just a spaceship against a spaceship. Paper strips with holes in which the computer read ran this game.
In the 70’s Atari came along with something so original… pong!! This was put into arcades round the whole world, the instructions were simple: insert money, ball will serve automatically and stop ball from hitting edge to get high score. Atari made so much money from this arcade game, as everyone didn’t think about how much money they deposited, just about there high scores. But while the world was playing pong Japan had Chinko (don’t know exactly how to spell) a pinball game type thing that had the millions of Japanese people playing for hours on end. But that all changed when the best of em all game along… Space invaders. It was so successful and the most money making of anything they had ever seen, and even released a sound track, which was very catchy.
It originated from breakout a game where you shoot the blocks, and was really easy so the inventor wanted a game where the blocks shoot back. The alien enemies were the first animated characters ever made. 6 Months after release in the arcades space invaders, the police restricted the opening hours of them so no one would stay up all night. In 1979 Warner Bros bought Atari for $30 million. After that Atari made endless space game e.g. Asteroids and defender, which was one of my favourite games for the Atari.
Pacman was the next big thing selling $16,000,000 for Namco in one year. Originally it was named puckman but it caused some name stipulation if you know what I mean, so they changed it to Pacman. After the Atari was the spectrum, which was the start of home console playing all over the world. Parents bought the computer for studying aids, but it was mainly used for gaming. As there was a keyboard with this, there was the option to create a game of your own. It was quite hard so magazines gave out codes to make small platform games but they weren’t very good. There were several brilliant games but Manic Miner had to be the most popular.
After the spectrum the whole arcade and console market went down hill, with hundreds of big arcades closing over the world and the making of consoles stopped as well.
It wasn’t until 1985 that Miyamoto came along with Nintendo and the smash hit Mario bros that was really popular for the super nes. Also came the creation of Donkey Kong the cool ape hit Nintendo with much force. Then In 1989 came the Gameboy, which was meant for adults and children, with its massive game Tetris.
From there the psx ruled the airways for 5 or so years and now here we are with 128 bit graphics, but just to wonder was space invaders better than Zelda?
Anyway cheers for reading
Time_Warp