History of electronic games

Between the 50s and 60s, most of the early electronic games were run on university systems in the US. Mouse in the maze, HAX and Tic tac toe were early games that were created. In 1961, students at MIT programmed a game called Spacewar. The game consisted of two humans that were placed against each other. Controlling a spacecraft, they were able to fire missiles at each other. The game was eventually distributed with the new DEC computers.

In 1971, the Galaxy Game was installed on PC's at Standford University. This was the first coin operated video game and was a version from Spacewar.

The first console version games were created between 1971 - 1977. Developer Ralph Baer began working on it in 1966 where a prototype was completed in 1968, it was called brown box. The eventual licensor, magnavox produced the worlds first home video game console and was released in 1971.

Second generation consoles were able to read cartridges. With the games now being placed on to cartridges, it meant that consumers were now able to purchase a wide array of gaming titles. By the 1970s video games were:

Atari 2600

Intellivision

ColecoVision

Today we have seen drastic changes in the gaming industry. We have hand held gaming consoles as well as advanced online gaming. It is a very fun and interesting platform especially with the transition to 3D gaming not too far away