Author Topic: The history of video games (Read 436 times)

« **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//

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Bobs_Hardware · « **Reply #1 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.

Kurt Angle · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2002, 07:19:31 AM »

How things change!

« **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2002, 09:10:43 AM »

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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?

Titan · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2002, 09:30:16 AM »

Very interesting. I didn\'t know Atari opened up Chuck E. Cheese.

« **Reply #5 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.

« **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2002, 06:54:47 AM »

intresting, and ninetendo must be kicking themselves

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Author Topic: The history of video games (Read 436 times)