"It all started when Pong creator Bushnell..."
Bushnell didn't create Pong. Al Alcorn did. If he was trying to make a joke, then I don't get it.
This guy took way too long to say "Nintendo stuck an NES in a car".
[QUOTE=TheGoodDoctorF;51670578]"It all started when Pong creator Bushnell..."
Bushnell didn't create Pong. Al Alcorn did. If he was trying to make a joke, then I don't get it.
This guy took way too long to say "Nintendo stuck an NES in a car".[/QUOTE]
Was it Ralph Baer that created a game that looked like Pong on the Odyssey and Atari stole the idea and made it's own version of it?
[QUOTE=TheGoodDoctorF;51670578]This guy took way too long to say "Nintendo stuck an NES in a car".[/QUOTE]
Yeah for a five minute video, he spent the first four minutes talking about something entirely different.
I'd love to see an in-depth video about those early onboard computers though.
[QUOTE=Noanykey;51670947]Was it Ralph Baer that created a game that looked like Pong on the Odyssey and Atari stole the idea and made it's own version of it?[/QUOTE]
Technically, "Tennis for Two" was built first on an oscilloscope. It was never sold commercially, but it's pretty safe to assume that it influenced both Alcorn and Baer. Pong came out in 72, and the Odyssey came out in 73. However if I recall correctly, Baer had been working on his Brown Box prototype since 69.
Pong as we know it was Al Alcorn's test to join Atari.
Despite what half of youtube video essays about game history will have you believe, game history has very few "firsts" because of the shared nature of ideas.
I'm getting most of my information from "Replay" by Tristan Donovan. I would argue that it's the best book about game history out there.
[url]https://www.amazon.com/Replay-History-Video-Tristan-Donovan/dp/0956507204[/url]
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