
History of the World Part 4
People talk a lot about the video game market crash of 1982 in hushed voices, as if it was a black hole in gaming culture. Teeth were gnashed, the plague spread, Gilead fell.
People talk a lot about the video game market crash of 1982 in hushed voices, as if it was a black hole in gaming culture. Teeth were gnashed, the plague spread, Gilead fell.
Up until this point in gaming history, any console that was sold had games pre-programmed into the gaming unit. While the use of jumpers in low-grade knock-off consoles continue to this day, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone interested in a console that can never expand upon its current library.
In our last column, we got all the way up to Pong, and its creation. Let’s be blunt, here: The simple fact that Pong was created is not enough.
How did we get from the bored man working with radar scopes, all the way to the consoles and PC Games of the modern age? Let’s take a long step back and consider The History of the World.