Video games have come a long way in a relatively short time. The first video screen game was Tennis for Two developed by William Higinbotham in 1958. This game was played on on oscilloscope and it was vaguely reminiscent of the actual game of tennis.
The graphics are awesome...
From there arcade games developed like Pong and Spacewar. In 1975 Atari released their home version of Pong and video gaming exploded from there. A more in-depth history can be found here if you are interested.
Today, video games are everywhere. With the advent of the smart phone we can have full length games in our pockets at all times.
This beast sucked away my life for several days.
So we're going to explore the realm of gaming for a little while on my geek blog. But its important to remember while your playing something like this:
Screen shot of Guild Wars 2 released last month.
That it all stemmed from something like this:
Video games: Preserving Geek virginity since 1958.
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