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Brief History of Action Games

Avatar for Samantha Radocchia Samantha Radocchia
June 16, 2013
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Brief History of Action Games

Video games are da bomb

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Samantha Radocchia

June 16, 2013
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Transcript

  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.