IAT 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Magnavox Odyssey, Nolan Bushnell, Gary Gygax
17 Mar 2016
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Jn 11 games iii (digital games history) Canvas discussion work: wrapper writes a summary at the end. Gary gygax: insurance underwriter turned shoe repairman, avid wargamer, paricularly with miniatures, developed chainmail ruleset and launched gen con, also invented dungeons & dragons. Dungeons & dragons: tabletop roleplaying games, players assume the rules and atributes of fantasy characters, a loosely bounded collaboraive story telling game, a bad inluence on kids! Lineage of arcade games: 1890s streetsides amusements: penny arcade: kinetoscope, phonograph. Bagatelle, fortune teller machines, pachinko: 1940s electromechanical projecion, machines popular ater wwii submarine game with periscope, 1950s pinball games, 1970s-1980s arcade in malls. Early video games: 1961 dec pdp-1 arrives at mit, steve russell and space war! Game is copied to university computers across the globe: colossal cave adventure or advent by william crowther and don woods, ralph baer and the magnavox odyssey. Atari programmers (female) dona bailey & carol shaw.
