Brief History of Action Games

Video games are da bomb

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1. A Brief History of! @iamsamsterdam ! Github: SamanthaRadocchia!
2. Pinball!
3. Pinball! This shit was cool from 1947 – 1970. !
4. Pinball! NO XBOX?! WTF?!
5. Pinball! Meanwhile, While these fools were trying to be Pinball Wizards…!
6. Spacewar! Video Games.! ! " " " "Boom. ! !
7. Spacewar! yo man this shit is way cooler than pinball!
8. Pong! The first commercially successful video game !
9. Pong! Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Marincic, and Al Alcorn – before Steve Jobs stole their shit !
10. Pong! Pong was cool. Except you needed a friend to play it… So obvi not many developers at the time could play it !
11. Breakout ! Breakout was the solution to that problem. Single player hell yeah! !
12. Breakout ! •   Released  in  1976  for  the  arcade.   •   Concept  by  Nolan  Bushnell  and  Steve   Bristow,  designed  by  Steve  Wozniak   •   Created  for  Atari  Inc.    
13. Breakout ! Steve  Jobs  also  got  in  on  the  fun.    
14. SPACE INVADERS! Breakout  laid  the  foundaGon  for  space  invaders  and   all  subsequent  acGon  video  games/compuGng  in   general.  Badass.