The History of Video Games Through the Best Anecdotes - Volume 1: The Origin of Video Games and the Glorious 1970s (ePub)

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW THE FIRST VIDEO GAMES ORIGINATED IN A FUN AND ENTERTAINING WAY THROUGH THEIR MOST INTERESTING ANECDOTES?

Did you know that the first video game was programmed even before computers appeared? What relationship did World War II have with the origin of the first video games? The first virtual games were not made to be sold, but were scientific experiments, and this gave rise to interesting anecdotes.

In these pages you will discover the history of the first video games and their first successes in the 1970s through curiosities from their path from laboratories to arcades and the creation of the first consoles, learning their entire process through entertaining and entertaining situations.

In this book you will discover:

- The first video game, programmed even before the existence of computers.

- The influence of the Second World War on the development of video games.

- The first candidates for the first video game in history and why they didn't become so.

- The era when video games weren't developed to sell them

- The first female video game designer

- How the first arcade machine and the beginning of the video game industry originated

- The programming errors that led to the success of some arcade games

- The relationship between the Nazi holocaust and the emergence of the first console

- The most controversial games of the arcades

- The first video game to use a microprocessor

- The first successes of glorious companies such as Sega, Taito or Namco

- The struggle for the survival of second generation consoles

- Racial segregation and the invention of game cartridges

- The various reinventions of arcade machines to offer novel experiences during the first golden age of video games.

All this and much more in more than fifty interesting anecdotes. Get ready to enjoy the most interesting anecdotes from the early years of video games!