1958 - creation of "Ping pong" tennis on an oscilloscope screen by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
1961 - development of Spacewar on a PDP-1 at MIT for the Science Open House.
1972 - the first commercially available home videogame for TV was launched, called Odyssey - complex, with many electronic components, and very expensive.
1972 - Nolan Bushnell forms Atari to develop games, and produces Pong, a simple tennis game for arcades.
1974 - Atari produce a home version of Pong.
1974 - Nintendo, a Japanese toy manufacturer produce an electronic version of the Japanese game "Go".
1978 - Space Invaders is released by Tatio, and two micro computers are released for commercial sale - the Commodore PET and the Atari.
1980 - Pacman is released in Japan, to be played on a micro home computer.
1983 - Nintendo release their first computer, and Mario is released at the same time.
1985 - Nintendo release the NES
1989 - First hand held machine from Nintendo, called "Game Boy". Tetris is produced for the Game Boy in Russia.
1989 - Sega releases the Sega Genesis
1991 - Sonic is produced by Sega in response to Nintendo's Mario.
1994 - Sony releases the Playstation in Japan
1996 - Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64
1999 - Dreamcast - 128 bit processor - is released in the UK.
2001 - Playstation 2 is released.
2001 - In September, Nintendo releases the Gamecube
2001 - In November, Microsoft enters the console market with the Xbox. Halo is released at launch, boosting sales.
The video game timeline begins to reveal how video gaming has become a part of our culture, and video game history will continue to be created over the next years.
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Monday, 17 September 2007
17th sept 2007
1. learrned how to make a blog
2. learned how to take screen shots, apple shift 3 takes a shot of the whole screen, apple shift 4 takes a shot of the selection, they both place a icon on the desktop, numberd from 1 up
3. understand and use working logbooks
4. wote down the names of websites we visit alot, i put down google, mostly because its my homepage and a very helpful site when trying to find somthing, also google provides a email "gmail" which i also vist alot, google has alot of other sevices one of the biggest being adwords, which lets you place a add for your website in the add section of the site, google also has many other features including its google images, googles products, google maps, google video and many others.
5. we also talked about critior for the future and disscused what was needed in order to get a merit ect
2. learned how to take screen shots, apple shift 3 takes a shot of the whole screen, apple shift 4 takes a shot of the selection, they both place a icon on the desktop, numberd from 1 up
3. understand and use working logbooks
4. wote down the names of websites we visit alot, i put down google, mostly because its my homepage and a very helpful site when trying to find somthing, also google provides a email "gmail" which i also vist alot, google has alot of other sevices one of the biggest being adwords, which lets you place a add for your website in the add section of the site, google also has many other features including its google images, googles products, google maps, google video and many others.
5. we also talked about critior for the future and disscused what was needed in order to get a merit ect
monday 10th sept 2007
1. learned to save pictures as wallpaper
2. learned how 2 changed password, right click on picture on the net and set as wallpaper.
3. learned how to create a new folder and sub folders, right click>create
4. learned the apple shift and esc thing..
5. learned how to move the dock and add items to it, go to the apple at the top
6. learned how to use the 1 mouse button, ctrl + button = right click
2. learned how 2 changed password, right click on picture on the net and set as wallpaper.
3. learned how to create a new folder and sub folders, right click>create
4. learned the apple shift and esc thing..
5. learned how to move the dock and add items to it, go to the apple at the top
6. learned how to use the 1 mouse button, ctrl + button = right click
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