Tag: Video games
Intellivision
It was an Atari world back in the late 70s and early 80s, but Mattel’s Intellivison staged a pretty good coup.
The Atari VCS (aka the 2600) was the untouchable juggernaut of the home video game world, with...
Video Games
Encouraged by the success of Atari, other companies tried dipping their joysticks into the home video game market in 1976.
Coleco introduced Telstar Pong, while the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company weighed in with the Fairchild Channel...
Pong
The first successful computer game was a video version of ping-pong, whose "ball" was a blip that bounced back and forth on-screen between two paddles.
The 'paddles' were moved up and down by two knobs on...
Breakout
Designed by future Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs (though Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reportedly did the bulk of the work), Breakout turned the video game world on its ear and cemented Atari’s spot at the...
Atari
Californian Nolan Bushnell created a game called Pong in 1971. The following year - with $250 of his own money and a matching investment from partner Ted Dabney - Bushnell created Pong's parent company.
He called it...
Odyssey
Before there was Atari, before there was even Pong, there was the Odyssey. We take it for granted now, of course, but try to remember there was once a time when nobody even thought about...
