Category: Digital
RETRO INVADERS: WHY THE ATARI 2600 TAUGHT US ALL WE KNOW ABOUT VIDEO GAMES.
By Ian Gonzalez Lopez. Every single one of the cultural phenomena that now reigns in the actual panorama looked very different forty years ago; such is the case of the videogame industry. This sector that…
ENIAC: ONE OF THE VERY FIRST ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE WORLD.
ENIAC which the acronym is “Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer” was one of the very first electronic computers. It was Turing tested, all digital and able to solve several types of mathematical problems through programming….
A VIDEO GAME CONSOLE WHICH COINED THE TERM “Intelligent Television”: THE INTELLIVISION
The Intellivision was a home video game entertainment system launched by Mattel Electronics in 1979. The name Intellivision came from the sentence “intelligent television”. Development of the system started in 1978, few months after the…
UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF A VIDEO GAME LEGEND: PAC-MAN
#videogames #invention #80s #arcade Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco released in Japan by 1980, created by Japanese video game designer Toru Iwatani. Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the video…