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The first video game Easter Egg. The first massively multipalyer game. The computer that changed our world.
Take a trip into the fascinating period of the 1970s to learn all about the ways video games intersected with crucial technologies in Play History Episode #6.
Happy Easter. Here’s an article where I interviewed the first programmer to ever hide an Easter Egg in software way back in 1968:
William Weiher created the first software Easter Egg back in the '60s, but didn't realize it was one until I told him.
And another where I talked to the first programmer to hide an Easter Egg in a computer game in 1973:
How many "firsts" can you cram into one game? The first on-screen human, the first cutscene, the first overworld map, the first Easter Egg..
The educational game you know and love was first brought to life in a two week programming session. Learn how OREGON became a legendary game
Surviving along the Oregon Trail... In a board game? Learn about the mad rush to convert an idea into a program over the course of a few, frantic, fateful weeks.
Oregon, Odyssey, Pong. These three words helped define the future of video games. Learn how the world was forever changed by the commercialization of electronics technology.
Play History Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS_zYOuVPp2nj4aeQRwQSNEdrK_SM6p2x
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One of the founding figures of the video game industry, Nolan Bushnell had a unique set of qualifications. Here you will learn how he first
Who's that Nolan Bushnell kid people get so excited about?
What did the coin-op world look like before video games entered the picture? Peer into the past of pinball, penny arcades, and electro-mecha
The days before video games, arcades were actually more similar than you might think.
Take a look at the Short from Episode 4 and you may be surprised of what haunted the halls of the pre-quarter amusement parlors.
How did Star Trek game author Mike Mayfield first get computer access? Through a little subterfuge.Full Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch
Ever do something naughty with someone's password? Mike Mayfield of the Star Trek computer game fame did.
This is a delightful little story, in short form.
Retrohistories covers the cult classic RPG, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines! A tragic story of ambition and being at the right place at the wrong time.
Space Race fever hits the world of video games, and changes them forever. The first two commercial video games, Computer Space and Galaxy Ga
The Space Age comes to video games.
Learn all about the ways Nolan Bushnell, Star Trek, and early artificial intelligence all intersect in the fourth episode of Play History.
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What was the first game to be played on a game console? The story of Pumping Contest on the Brown Box, predecessor to Magnavox's Odyssey.Ful
Button-mashing began with the first console video game.
Learn all about it in this Short about the Brown Box prototype of the Magnavox Odyssey, and its first game, Pumping Contest!
The Sumerian Game may have been the first to create a world inside video games. How did they accomplish this?Full Video: https://www.youtube
The newest Play History short is up! This one about The Sumerian Game's role in creating one of the first video game stories. And some killer music.
TCW Podcast Episode 176 - The SEGA Technical Institute SEGA has had a long history of mixing the west and Japanese ideas. To that end,
New They Create Worlds episode on the Sega Technical Institute, Sega's attempt in the 90s to meld Japanese and Western game development.
The power for people to have their own slice of computing power started in the 1960s. All about how time-sharing worked and why it changed t
Personal computing before PCs. In this Short, we looked at Timesharing computers which helped birth the culture of the microcomputer age.
Samus Aran Origins Revisited: The Metroid Creature
I had unfinished business with Cobra...or did Cobra have unfinished business with me?
My new video essay is a follow-up to my previous video about Samus Aran's Origins. This time I look into possible influences on the Metroid creature itself, with a focus on one particularly major influence.
Let there be games.
Video games, in the hands of the people.
The stories of lost games like early BASIC, The Sumerian Game, and the Brown Box on Episode 3 of Play History.
At MIT, a purpose-built controller was built for Spacewar! How did it work, and how the heck are you supposed to hold it?Full Video: https:/
Latest short! Learn all about how Spacewar! got its gamepads, one of the first purpose-built controllers for a video game.
Good morning! If you didn't catch it, don't miss the second episode of Play History wherein we learn about some of the most interest early video games. Tennis, baseball, and space war... Oh my!
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