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Re: [Link Posting] Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game

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Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
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> <URL:https://www.technologizer.com/2011/12/11/computer-space-and-the-daw
> n-of-the-arcade-video-game/>
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> The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
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>>  Forty years ago, Nutting Associates released the world's first
>>  mass-produced and commercially sold video game, Computer Space. It was
>>  the brainchild of Nolan Bushnell, a charismatic engineer with a creative
>>  vision matched only by his skill at self-promotion. With the help of his
>>  business partner Ted Dabney and the staff of Nutting Associates,
>>  Bushnell pushed the game from nothing into reality only two short years
>>  after conceiving the idea.

Interesting article.

Even more forgotten are the engineers who later designed DIY
versions of arcade machines in the 70s and 80s that could be
built to work with home TV sets, while restrained by the
practical component cost to readers of the hobby electronics
magazines that they published in.

Also, a bit of movie trivia: Computer Space made an appearance
in the Sci-Fi film Soylent Green (even showed a bit of gameplay
if I remember correctly) in what Wikipedia now tells me "is
considered to be the first video game appearance in a movie".

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[Link Posting] Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-06-03 05:32 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2018-06-09 00:51 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-06-09 02:01 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-11 17:03 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] Computer Space and the Dawn of the Arcade Video Game Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2018-06-12 15:12 +0000

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