
Whenever I start playing a few games on my Xbox 360I couldn’t help but wonder how it came to be. My parents tell me the video games were not just popular back on the days and it had been believed an idea of the future. With this in mind, I started to recall my early childhood memories when it comes to video games. And since I did not have anything good to do today, I decided to do some research about the complete history of video game consoles. To my surprise, I realized that the very first console I had back when I was a child wasn’t the”first game console”. I had this notion that my previous games console was the first first created, so I guess it was really worth the time exploring regarding video game consoles.
Whatever the case, let’s start our blast from the past as I take you back in the humble beginnings of the treasured video game consoles.
The thought of playing games in front of the tv has been considered absurd and also a thing of the future. All except for one Ralph Baer who guessed one absurd idea; the ability to interact with your tv, which includes playing games on it. This was in 1951 while building television sets for Loral at Bronx, New York. Back in 1966, he successfully built a game called”Chase” in which two dots chased each other round the screen. He showed the idea to his new supervisor, R&D owner Herbert Campman, that he was given some funding along with his job has been taken by the company as an official one. A Couple of years afterwards, Ralph Baer successfully produced the”Brown Box”, which is considered as the Terrific grandfather of all video game consoles
A few decades after, Magnavox decided to invest on video games and created the very first video game console called the Magnavox Oddysey. It was an innovation as it had been the very first video game which can be connected to your television set. It was the first in regards to console peripherals because it is possible to purchase a light gun which you can link to the console when playing shooting games.
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