2006-06-26 13:33:42 · 9 answers · asked by lipstick7000 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
It was Pong. 1972.
"In the beginning there was Computer Space. This was Nolan Bushnell's version of the popular computer game Spacewar. He worked on it all through 1970 in his daughter's bedroom and then licensed it to Bill Nutting Associates under the Syzygy Engineering title. Says Nutting: "We blew the coin-op industry's mind." The company only built 1,500 of them. Nutting wanted to do another game and approached Nolan, he agreed to license another game to them. Nutting wanted to own the game, however Nolan had the technology and wanted to retain control of it, Nolan and Nutting tried to come to terms on a deal, but in the end Nolan and fellow partner Ted Dabney went off and decided that instead of licensing their technology to other companies to manufacture they would design and sell games on their own, Syzygy Engineering/Atari Inc. was born. On June 27, 1972 Atari, Inc was officially registered and in a few months their first product became the "Pong heard around the world" as the sound of a digital ball made of light would bounce off the walls of its digital playfield and into history as the game that started the big bang explosion of Video Arcade Entertainment."
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2006-06-26 13:37:07 · answer #1 · answered by Jen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Space War was first around 1972, later called Computer Space when made into a pay arcade game.
For the computer games, initially there were just a few on cartridges like Pong, but most of the first games had to be typed in using Atari Basic and saved to a cassette, then came the first clunky floppy drive, more cassette games like Asteroids and Centipede and then came the roll ball controller.
2006-06-26 13:50:21 · answer #2 · answered by tweak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pong, released November 29, 1972.
2006-06-26 13:37:57 · answer #3 · answered by cerealkiller2106 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, I fondly recall getting so excited over this lil game.. hitting a square 'ball' back and forth (slowly, mind you) between 2 rectangles that you moved up or down the screen by using a joystick. We thought we were so technogically advanced!
It was 1972 and the game was Pong.
2006-06-26 14:55:46 · answer #4 · answered by ladyangelovely 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spacewar 1970
2006-06-26 15:26:41 · answer #5 · answered by brucefan123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the early 70s I believe it was pong.
My dad bought us one in the 70s and it had 2 games, pong and something else.
2006-06-26 13:42:28 · answer #6 · answered by vze4h35z@verizon.net 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was pin pon. Remember the 2 lines and the little white ball that would bounce between them.
2006-06-26 13:36:59 · answer #7 · answered by Ratzrcute 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pong. 1972. :)
Sarah
2006-06-26 13:43:54 · answer #8 · answered by Sarah Michelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pac-man, 1912
2006-06-26 13:36:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋