The history of Video Games

The ENTIRE History Of Video Games

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:29 40s
2:37 50s
3:40 60s
7:57 70s
14:40 80s
21:47 90s
24:45 00s
25:50 10s
30:40 20s
From government-made games to corporate-made, the history of video games is quite diverse. So in this video, I will be going over the history of video games and the impact that each console has made on the gaming industry as a whole.

The 40s
So, it all started in 1940 at the World’s Fair. A nuclear physicist named Edward Condon designed a computer that played a traditional game called “Nim”. Nim is a mathematical game in which 2 players take turns removing an object from a pile. In this game, the goal is to either take the last object or not take the last object. The computer made by Condon called the Nimatron was displayed from May 11, 1940, to about October 27, 1940, in which only a few people were able to beat the computer with the computer winning over 90% of its games played against humans. If the human did win, then they received a coin that said Nim Champ.

Just 7 years later in 1947, a huge breakthrough was made. Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann created a game they call “cathode ray tube amusement device”. This game was the first the earliest ever recorded interactive electronic display with an electronic display. The game simulates an artillery shell arcing towards targets on a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen, which is controlled by the player by adjusting knobs to change the trajectory of a CRT beam spot on the display in order to reach plastic targets overlaid on the screen. Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann constructed the game from analog electronics and filed for a patent in 1947, which was issued the following year. The gaming device was never manufactured or marketed to the public, so it did not affect the future video game industry. Under most definitions, the device is not considered a video game, as while it had an electronic display it did not run on a computing device. Therefore, despite its relevance to the early history of video games, it is not generally considered a candidate for the title of the first video game.

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