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Greg Johnson	Wednesday 25 July 2007 2:15:09 am Here is the oldest video game I can think of Andrew I don't know what it was called though. The Champion......
nin tendo	Wednesday 25 July 2007 3:19:43 am Hmm... I think it's called "ping pong", only digital. Future cartoonist, right here.
Frank Triberus	Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:15:46 am Of course it is! And I can think of the oldest console: The 'Odyssey'! ~ Frank Triberus A marshal who is Bumper LEGO in disguise
Golden Shyguy	Wednesday 25 July 2007 2:00:26 pm That game, Greg. I know what it's called. It's just called Pong. I'm thinking it is. It was made in 1979. Calvin adventure: Next episode: Season 1 trailer: 2009
Andrew Martin	Wednesday 25 July 2007 3:08:49 pm Relisent Well i don't know the any oddesy console only the greek thing but it was movies or games but pong is old but keep them coming if noone has any answer in 5 minites greg will win A.N.D.R.E.W.M.A.R.T.I.N what does that say lets hear it
Andrew Martin	Wednesday 25 July 2007 3:53:06 pm WINNER Greg you won the competion congragulation your idea for pong and avater will be on my next PTT and your name in the credits well done A.N.D.R.E.W.M.A.R.T.I.N what does that say lets hear it
Andrew Martin	Wednesday 25 July 2007 5:15:17 pm Now I cant tell you the name of the PTT but i can tell you the first letter but its a number it starts with a 2 A.N.D.R.E.W.M.A.R.T.I.N what does that say lets hear it
Andrew Martin	Wednesday 25 July 2007 8:48:52 pm NOw that greg johnson won Heres a little hint on my next PTT It a action and a spoff of a shot them up show A.N.D.R.E.W.M.A.R.T.I.N what does that say lets hear it
Frank Triberus	Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:18:04 pm RE: Relisent You've got to be kidding me! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey ~ Frank Triberus A marshal who is Bumper LEGO in disguise
Andrew Martin	Wednesday 25 July 2007 10:37:13 pm Sorry the real winner is My bad i think i have to rearange the titles sorry greg its James who Won A.N.D.R.E.W.M.A.R.T.I.N what does that say lets hear it
T. FLORIA	Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:26:21 pm I know what the first video game EVER is It's all the way back from the 1940s
Andrew Martin	Wednesday 25 July 2007 11:32:26 pm I CAN'T DECIDE BUT THIS IS THE FINAL WINNER NO MORE IDEAS PLEASE Choices Greg johnson James Triberus Taylor flora well if it was 1940 i say taylor flora is the winnet A.N.D.R.E.W.M.A.R.T.I.N what does that say lets hear it
T. FLORIA	Thursday 26 July 2007 12:12:14 am There's a small mistake where you spelled my name. FLORIA
Frank Triberus	Thursday 26 July 2007 10:39:09 am What's it's name? What's it called? ~ Frank Triberus A marshal who is Bumper LEGO in disguise
Frank Triberus	Thursday 26 July 2007 11:30:18 am Never mind It's the NIMROD, isn't it? ~ Frank Triberus A marshal who is Bumper LEGO in disguise
Greg Johnson	Tuesday 31 July 2007 4:20:03 pm The First Video game was from 1961. Here is proof: Around 1962, Steve Russell, student at MIT's Project MAC, and Alan Kotek, created the first video game, "Spacewar". Written for the DEC PDP-1, "Spacewar" was an instant success and copies started flowing to other PDP-1 owners and eventually even DEC got a copy. The engineers at DEC used it as a diagnostic program on every new PDP-1 before shipping it. The sales force picked up on this quickly enough and when installing new units, would run the world's first video game for their new customers. Spacewar didn't seem like anything special at the time -- just a shooter with a spaceship that fought off waves of attacking UFO's in dreary black and white graphics -- but it was the beginning of what is today a $10 billion business annually. SPACEWAR on the PDP-1 and Ron Mayer's Planet Gravitational Display on the TX-2 were the early origins to the modern computer games and an inspiration for graphic display speeds, orders of magnitude faster than one thought possible at that time. I now leared that the first computer game may have been built in 1958 by someone named William Higin-Botham who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratories in Upton, New York. Apparently he built a game of "tennis" that sounds a lot like Pong. His research involved designing radars and graphical displays, and calculating object trajectories. Simulating a tennis ball between two bats was apparently an easy problem, a problem which led to this game. the following text is excepted from the book, "Becoming a Computer Animator" by Michael Morrison: 1961 - In 1961 Sutherland, a MIT student, created a computer drawing program called Sketchpad. Using a light pen, Sketchpad allowed you to draw simple shapes on the computer screen, save them and even recall them later. The light pen itself had a small photoelectric cell in its tip. This cell emitted an electronic pulse whenever it was placed in front of a computer screen and the screen's electron gun fired directly at it. By simply timing the electronic pulse with the current location of the electron gun, it was easy to pinpoint exactly where the pen was on the screen at any given moment. Once that was determined, the computer could then draw a cursor at that location. Also in 1961 another student at MIT, Steve Russell, created the first video game, "Spacewar". Written for the DEC PDP-1, "Spacewar" was an instant success and copies started flowing to other PDP-1 owners and eventually even DEC got a copy. The engineers at DEC used it as a diagnostic program on every new PDP-1 before shipping it. The sales force picked up on this quickly enough and when installing new units, would run the world's first video game for their new customers. The Champion......

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