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This booklet makes a speciality of the heritage of games, consoles, and residential pcs from the very starting till the mid-nineties, which began a brand new period in electronic leisure. The textual content positive factors the main cutting edge video games and introduces the pioneers who built them. It bargains short analyses of the main suitable video games from whenever interval. An epilogue covers the occasions and structures that this golden age whereas the appendices comprise a historical past of hand held video games and an outline of the retro-gaming scene.
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These included Activision, Imagic, and several others, collectively supplying a good variety of titles that helped the console quickly gain a sizeable share of the market. On the marketing side, Mattel opted for an aggressive face-to-face campaign against the Atari VCS to promote the better visuals of their system. Keypad overlays for some Intellivision games to be put on the controller. A total of 125 games were developed for the system. 36 Part 1. Home Consoles A Mattel advertisement comparing baseball games for the VCS and the Intellivision, featuring well-known journalist and writer George Plimpton (1927–2003).
At this time, after Activision’s early successes, it was clear that third-party development was crucial to the survival of any system and this lack of support ultimately left the Odyssey2 behind other competitors. Among the other companies interested in entering the video game industry was Mattel. The toymaker giant soon formed a subsidiary named Mattel Electronics with the sole purpose of developing electronic games. Their first foray in electronic entertainment during the late seventies with simple handheld games was quite successful and they knew the time was right for a bigger involvement.
Bushnell was a naturalborn businessman with innovative ideas and a passion for games so he understood right away that video games had potential from a commercial perspective. In 1969, while working for a company named Ampex, he joined forces with his friend and colleague Ted Dabney (born 1937) to start turning his vision into reality. The very first idea was to use a $4,000 microcomputer, a DEC PDP-8, to design a coin-operated system able to play a few different games. Another friend, Larry Bryant, was supposed to take care of the actual programming and each of them A young Ted Dabney (left) with Nolan Bushnell, the founding fathers of the video game industry.