why the revelation will suck

[darkmage479]

Atari wasn't founded until 1972 and Nolan Bushnell made the Pong machine in 1971.

 

In 1967, Ralph Baer created an interactive TV game.

 

Baer's 1967 prototype (nicknamed the 'Brown Box') was assembled by him and another technician during their lunch breaks at Maganavox R&D. In production, the brown box later became the Magnavox Odyssey. It played a simple pong-type game and was built entirely out of transistor circuitry, meaning that EGM described it in their interview with Baer as having a "whopping zero bits of power".

 

Baer went on to invent the light gun. He only recently retired after working on electronic logic puzzles for much of the 1990s.

 

I have to go and find that EGM.

[Inky]

Suvo's came oout of the closet here.

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My wall of text.

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actually you missed an important point:

 

1- while the nes didn't start teh console scene, it saved videogaming from the big gaming crash of the early 80's AND it singlehandedly launched the CURRENT console scene as it is.

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While nintendo helped to save console gaming during the crash. I'd still say atari set forward the model for the way console makers do buisness.

[Lucandrake]

Atari wasn't founded until 1972 and Nolan Bushnell made the Pong machine in 1971.

 

In 1967, Ralph Baer created an interactive TV game.

 

Baer's 1967 prototype (nicknamed the 'Brown Box') was assembled by him and another technician during their lunch breaks at Maganavox R&D. In production, the brown box later became the Magnavox Odyssey. It played a simple pong-type game and was built entirely out of transistor circuitry, meaning that EGM described it in their interview with Baer as having a "whopping zero bits of power".

 

Baer went on to invent the light gun. He only recently retired after working on electronic logic puzzles for much of the 1990s.

 

I have to go and find that EGM.

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Wasn't that the game were you put a plastic see through cover on the screen with pictures on them like you see on the window's at a store?