the histor of video

the brown box

german-born television engineer ralph baer and his coworkers desgin the first video-game console in 1967. players could control two squares chasing each other on the screen. the team eventually adds a light gun and develops a total of 12 games for what becomes known as the brown box.

magnavox odyssey
1972









regarded as the first commercial home game system. the electronics were all analog, with about 40 diodes and transistors. since the graph were very primitive they were sold with plastic overlays for the tv screen to make the games more exciting. players had to keep score on paper, scine the machine had no memory.

atari pong
1975










this is the home version of the popular atari arcade pong game. it made a huge culter splash and started the video gane boom. the game, sold through sears-roebuck, had two build-in controllers and only played pong. many different atari pong systerms were released between 1975 and 1977, featuring gaming innovations such as colour and digital on-sreen scoring.