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Title: Old School payd off today hehe
Post by: morgue on January 04, 2004, 09:35:45 PM: I felt provably like a teacher hehehe.
My cousins (9 and 10 years old) were asking me today consoles stuff... stuff like what was the first console? first game, where did mario appeared the first time?
I felt old provably hehehe but like with some nice knowledge

And the answers were...
in case i'm wrong let me know
atari
pong
dk

some other stuff i don't remeber too
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Post by: DrZoidberg on January 04, 2004, 10:09:32 PM: actually wasn't the first console also pong? i'm pretty sure it was, it had the soul purpose of playing pong, but was still a console. the rest is right though ^_^, keep teaching these kids, so they learn about video games and not just jump on some trend bandwagon as per 90% of newer gamers
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Post by: KDR_11k on January 05, 2004, 01:37:27 AM: First game was Spacewar, which was developed in the 1960s. I think the article said there were other games before Spacewar, but SW was the first more developed one. At least it predated PONG.
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Post by: Ocarina Blue on January 05, 2004, 01:59:42 AM: Uh uh, there was a prototype of Pong developed in 1958, if I remember correctly. Then again, the text I read on the issue also said it spent years lying around a pub aftwards, and has never been seen again... The first console was the Odyssey, I think.
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Post by: S-U-P-E-R on January 05, 2004, 03:06:11 AM: Wasn't the first interchangeable-game system the Odyssey, with single-game dedicated pong predating that? I'm not sure now, but...
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Post by: KDR_11k on January 05, 2004, 05:10:40 AM: Ocarina: Ah, just read it up again. Correction: Pong was indeed the first game (not exactly, the first Pong version had realistic physics and somewhat 3d graphics), but Spacewar! was the first arcade game.
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Post by: manunited4eva22 on January 05, 2004, 06:05:27 AM: Odyssey was indeed the first home console, while Pong was shown off many years before. The pong like atari games came a tad later if my mind recalls correctly.
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Post by: Jale on January 06, 2004, 10:22:56 AM: My mum was telling me about the good old days when she would play her brothers on theyre pong game.
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Post by: BlkPaladin on January 06, 2004, 05:06:13 PM: The Magnavox Odyssey was the first system but all the games were stored on the machine. Pong was made by Atari, but the Odyssey had a tabble tennis game that looked like pong.

And Pong was the first true arcade game, because that is how Atari tested the fesibility of their product.
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Post by: Uglydot on January 10, 2004, 01:36:29 AM: The first video games was made in the 1950s using lab equipment, you moved a dot. I think the first cart based system was actually the channel f, a miserable failure.
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Post by: mouse_clicker on January 10, 2004, 02:18:37 AM: Ugyldot: That was essentialy the same game as Pong- the scientist who created the machine later sued Atari, claiming they stole his idea when they made Pong, saying Nolan Bushnell saw the machine at a sort of technology fair. Bushnell has claimed he saw the machine, but didn't think it was anything special (which I find odd, consider the two games are almost identical).
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Post by: DrZoidberg on January 10, 2004, 02:26:26 AM: and thus fanboys were born?
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Post by: ThePerm on January 13, 2004, 01:51:38 PM: yeah the creater of Oddysee had his own version of pong simply called tennis or tv tennis...id have to read up on it..until then look around gamespot who prolly has the bg info
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Post by: BiLdItUp1 on January 14, 2004, 03:12:39 PM: Quote
That was essentialy the same game as Pong- the scientist who created the machine later sued Atari, claiming they stole his idea when they made Pong, saying Nolan Bushnell saw the machine at a sort of technology fair. Bushnell has claimed he saw the machine, but didn't think it was anything special (which I find odd, consider the two games are almost identical).

Last I checked, it was created in an atomic lab in upstate New York, just to have a bit of fun. it ran on vacuum tubes.
Also, I thought that it was the Odyssee people who sued Atari, not the lab people- and what happened was Atari got the lab people to say that their game predated the Odysee's pong.