TC 101 Lecture Notes - Atari 2600, Nolan Bushnell, Magnavox Odyssey
Document Summary
1 in 5 play on a daily basis. 1/3 of adult gamers play for +10 hours/week. Female game players outnumber males in the 24-35 age group. Rebellious and hacker culture, youth culture, women"s liberation. Simulation and military computation: push the button, frank. 1947: crt amusement device: thomas goldsmith and estle ray mann. 1952: a. s. douglas" noughts and crosses game: tic, tac, toe. 1961: steve russell"s spacewar: first shooter, onto first commercially available computers. Ralph baer, magnavox odyssey, 1972 (invented in 1968). Nolan bushnell, atari (name comes from the go game): 1971 arcade game: computer space (failed, arcade pong, 1975 home console pong, 1977: atari 2600. Early online game play: text-based: multi users dungeon (mud) A rape in cyberspace people would create characters and legitamently ruin the game by one player raping another via character. Pac-man fever: 20 billion in quarters, 2x revenue of vegas casinos.
