Game background

The earliest recorded video game was born in 1952, that is, TIC-tac-toe game, running on a vacuum tube computer. Electronic games were introduced as commercial entertainment media in1970s, and became the basis of important entertainment industries in Japan, America and Europe in the late1970s.

During the depression of American game industry in 1983 and two years after its rebirth, the electronic game industry experienced more than 20 years of growth and became a 1000 billion dollar industry, competing with the film industry to become the most profitable entertainment industry in the world. In the early days of video games, mainframe computing, graphics performance and main storage media were the standards for generations. On average, about one generation lasts five to six years. The performance of game consoles varies greatly from generation to generation.

The first video game

The first design known as "cathode ray tube entertainment device" was registered by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estreman of the United States. The patent was filed on1947,65438125 October and published on1948,65438 February 4.

"OXO" is a graphic version of TIC-tac-toe crossing three levels made by A.S.Douglas of Cambridge University in 1952, showing his research paper on human-computer interaction. It is developed on EDSAC computer and displays the contents of the memory through cathode ray tube. Players use the turntable to confront computers with basic artificial intelligence.

1958, WilliamHiginbotham created a game with an oscilloscope and an analog computer. It has a proper name: Double Tennis, which is used to entertain tourists at Brookhaven National Laboratory in new york. Tennis for Two shows a simplified side view of a tennis court. Its selling point is that a gravity-controlled ball must hit the net, unlike its successor's top view, hitting the pinball table.

The game provides two box controllers, both equipped with trajectory control knobs and a hitting button. By the time 1959 was demolished, it had been on display for two seasons.