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Post by Aaron on Jul 21, 2005 18:11:30 GMT -8
Some of you probably already knew, but I didn't until yesterday......... www.pong-story.com/rhbaer.htmRalph Baer was the guy who made the first video game(s) .. I had always thought Pong was the first game made, but it turns out he had made a "ping-pong"-type game before Atari ever did. So Ralph Baer is the first guy to create video games...
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Post by ty on Jul 21, 2005 18:56:12 GMT -8
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When will they learn I made video games?! HUH?!?! But yeah, that's interesting.. Now can you tell me the guy who invented the internet? XD
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Post by Marty on Jul 21, 2005 20:43:54 GMT -8
.... When will they learn I made video games?! HUH?!?! But yeah, that's interesting.. Now can you tell me the guy who invented the internet? XD Actually, I can. XD Tim Berners-Lee is his name. Last year we had to do a book report and a speech on a non-fiction book. That's kind of interesting though. It never crossed my mind that pong could be the first video game ever made.
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Post by CD on Jul 21, 2005 21:01:48 GMT -8
I knew pong was first... but that's it. XD
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Post by Ten Kabuto on Jul 31, 2005 21:48:42 GMT -8
jaja.. I saw the guys story on G4TV's Icons.. He busted out some cool stuff.
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Post by Aaron on Aug 1, 2005 10:17:47 GMT -8
That's where I saw it. He also had a Simon toy. I think he made that game too.
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Post by Atom.Poet on Aug 4, 2005 18:57:49 GMT -8
Some of you probably already knew, but I didn't until yesterday......... www.pong-story.com/rhbaer.htmRalph Baer was the guy who made the first video game(s) .. I had always thought Pong was the first game made, but it turns out he had made a "ping-pong"-type game before Atari ever did. So Ralph Baer is the first guy to create video games... lol, you silly g4/TechTV viewers. It does often show some history, but unless you follow up, or even begin with the books; it won't get you the full story. He actually was the first man to allow gaming onto a screen. And had only portained it with several people, other then himself when he first started. There were games he made, that didn't use a screen, but until his implementation he never thought of it. Although I think g4 did a good presentation of the guy. -Atom
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Post by Jimmy on Aug 5, 2005 4:24:10 GMT -8
Thats cool. I didn't know that.
And what kind of games are these "games without a screen"?
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Post by Atom.Poet on Aug 5, 2005 9:12:57 GMT -8
Thats cool. I didn't know that. And what kind of games are these "games without a screen"? Sorry, I was kinda in a rush before I got to fully explain. I meant full-size screen (which still wasn't that big back then) He had made games, on random custom-made pieces of glasss screens. Which he also made. And the first game he made, was very similiar to Pong, except... it wasn't really a game. See, on the first computer's you'd have to write a program, to get any function to work, or be done. when he wrote this program, he wrote it for a dot, a large white dot. He custom-made the machine... and had the dot hit the walls of the screen, and bounce off in the direction most-likely thought of by physics. So, if you're using XP, or 200 [windows] let your screen go for about 10-20 minutes or something, and that stupid XP/2000 logo should pop on, and bounce around like he had this dot do (If your machine is set to that one, it should be by default) But yeah, that's basically what he had. -A moving dot. Not much of a game, seeing as he couldn't control it... but sooner or later, her added more functions to the program, and got it controllable, then got another dot in... and that's how Pong came along... -Atom
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