Pong

Eric Pokorny Wauchanga Media Ethics November 18th, 2017 Proposal The average teenager has witnessed a game of beer pong at least once during their high school career. As the years go by, the use of social media has began to increase. Not only is social media becoming part of our everyday way of life, but also it is beginning to ruin our society. In today's world, the average teenager now uses various social media sites to keep friends updated with their daily routine. Unfortunately, this

important to realize, it’s not just with math. This physical and mental endurance is required in all other areas of interests you have the commitment and passion to perform. Numerous of times I have heard individuals claim dancing and fencing and ping pong are not sports therefore making performers of them, not athletes. But to all you who don’t believe in the athleticism of these individuals, I’ll have you know, the same physicality, quick decision-making, and determined character you need in a football

roll-playing games, it has changed over the decades through their consoles. In October of 1958, a man by the name of William Higinbotham, created the first video game system, so it has been told. It was a simple game of tennis, like the 1970s game of Pong. This is what started this video game craze The first video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972. The Magnavox did not have the same graphics as todays; it had pixels of only black and white. It surprises people still today to find

Almost everyone, everywhere has a hobby. While it is typical to find adults with the same hobbies they had during their childhood days there is also the likelihood that over time many adults would have switched hobbies. Reflecting on my life over the past three years made me realize that I’ve changed hobbies thrice due to relocation, accessibility and cost. Like me, many adults are now turning to video gaming as their preferred pastime, because of its distinctive features from other competing interests

complex mechanics and possibly poor marketing from the corporation (Kent, 2001). Pong. A year later, Nolan Bushnell & Ted Dabney founded Atari incorporated and hired a man named Allan Alcorn to design games. Under the instructions of Bushnell, Alcorn was asked to create a simple ping pong game as practice. Pong was released in 1972 and quickly became the first successful arcade video game (Kent 2001). With over 19,000 Pong arcade machines sold, many other companies began to imitate Atari’s product (Lipson

Atari was the first commercial video game company with hits like ‘break out” and “pong”. For many people pong was the first video game they have ever played. The idea of pong is that there is two rectangles that only move up and down and a little square that bounces around the screen until one of the rectangles miss, once the rectangle miss’ the game is over. This game may seem simple now but it sold 19,000 units so you can say what you want but back then this was the greatest game ever.

Video games have been around since the 40’s, reaching its popularity from the mass mainstream crowds by the 70’s. Back to the simpler times where there were less pixels and control buttons. Back to the games that didn’t have storylines – no police chases, zombie apocalypses or saving any princesses. Which were what video game creators and fans wanted as time progressed. More games, more visuals and graphics, more dimension, more realism. Thru the years, video games have evolved and expanded greatly

Pioneers of Computer Programming When you think of 21st century computing, two things come to mind: Windows and video games. Learning Team A introduces you to the two men responsible for these phenomena – Bill Gates and Nolan Bushnell. William Henry Gates III During that late 1960's and early 1970's, BASIC was one of the premier programming languages. At that time, Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen made the commitment to learn BASIC by reading the user manuals. In exchange for computer

in the history of videogames, as I call them eras. Each era is very important because they shaped the videogames we know and love today. The Beginning Era So, what was the very first videogame ever created? Do you think you know? Most people guess Pong, The Atari, Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros., Pac-Man, but all of them are wrong. Can you guess the Father

the first video game to be produced, and it was created and developed by a company called Nutting Associates. “In 1972, a company called Atari introduced a game called Pong”. Atari was formed by a person named Nolan Bushnell, a developer of Computer Space, who left Nutting Associates to found Atari, which then produced Pong. “Pong was the first successful commercial arcade video game”. (How Stuff Works, 2017) How is a video game made? A video game is taken through a step by step process requiring