MMC-2000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Dissonance, Paul Lazarsfeld, Media Filter
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Chapter 9: david gottlieb: invented the first mass-produced arcade game, baffle ball, which consisted of a wooden cabinet and a plunger, harry williams: invented contact, the first electric pinball game. Enthusiasm fueled even more when slot-machine makers entered the field and produced games with cash payouts: due to the depression, civic leaders were not much in favor of this development and banned the games. Because of cash payouts, pinball was considered gambling: gottlieb -> games that paid off in additional games rather than cash are not gambling. 1947: humpty dumpty rewarded high scorers with replays. Bans were lifted, pinball returned to arcades. You can"t say video games grew out of pinball, but you can assume that video games wouldn"t have happened without it. : only three universities (mit, utah and stanford) had the sleeker, more advanced computers in the 1950s-1960s.
