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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: alienmagic on October 12, 2002, 07:04:25 AM

Title: The history of video games
Post by: alienmagic on October 12, 2002, 07:04:25 AM: Here\'s a decent article on the history of video games. It goes all the way back to 1889 to the Marufuku Company that made playing cards.

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/hov//

:alien:
Title: The history of video games
Post by: Bobs_Hardware on October 12, 2002, 07:09:14 AM: I\'ve read through that a few times in my day. You couldn\'t write that story. Very interesting.
Title: The history of video games
Post by: Kurt Angle on October 12, 2002, 07:19:31 AM: How things change!
Title: The history of video games
Post by: shockwaves on October 12, 2002, 09:10:43 AM: Quote
Nintendo Divorces Sony and Marries Philips
Sony and Nintendo abandon their joint CD peripheral, which Sony had reputedly completed in prototype form. Rumors surface indicating that Sony lawyers had skillfully crafted an agreement that allowed Sony to reap publishing profits from SNES/Super Famicom CD-based games, profits Nintendo sought to retain. Nintendo announces plans to work with Philips to create a CD-ROM compatible with the Philips CD-i. Sony, disgusted, finishes work on a number of SNES games, scraps the old "PlayStation" developed for Nintendo, and sets its engineers to work on developing a 32-bit CD-only game machine to unseat Nintendo in Japan and the United States.

Anyone else see that as the biggest mistake in videogame history?
Title: The history of video games
Post by: Titan on October 12, 2002, 09:30:16 AM: Very interesting. I didn\'t know Atari opened up Chuck E. Cheese.
Title: The history of video games
Post by: SER on October 13, 2002, 01:52:19 AM: Pretty cool. Almost like the one EGM had a few years back. I remember plagiarizing it for a report back in ninth grade. :laughing:
Title: The history of video games
Post by: kopking on October 13, 2002, 06:54:47 AM: intresting, and ninetendo must be kicking themselves