http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(seventh_generation) came across this you guys should check it out :search: it has the history of game concoles from the 70s to present
that is too much reading for my simple mind.... Remember kids, internet and computer games kill braincells...
My best friend when I was young - the nextdoor neighbor by default - got one of the very first "Pong" games. It was one white rectangle on each side of the screen, and a white square that bounced back and forth. The controllers had two dials. One for "horizontal" and one for "english." The game came in "color." By color, I mean it had a piece of green plastic with a tennis court drawn on it that you taped to the TV. The plastic sheets came in two sizes: one set for 13" TV's, the other set for 20" TV's. There were no other sizes.
It fails to mention where pong pretty much the beginning of gaming got started. Pong was started by a couple EE's at MIT using an analog computer and an oscilliscope.
I remmember playing pong then the concole broke LOL then when i got my first NES i was so happy and my class mates were like screw NES we've had SNES for like a year.
Ahhh the memories..... I spent COUNTLESS hours playing that silly little game down at the local pub, back in the day. Am I THAT old? :mouth:
Anyone remember Coleco Vision foot ball! I think that was the first hand held! how about Mattelivision?
Played Pong at my friends house, then I got the Atari 2600 and life as I knew it was OVER (thank GOD!).
