Video games was invented in the 1950s. However, it took two decades until it became a commercial product. In November 1972, PONG which is a very well know arcade game was created which only involved a stick hitting a ball. This game became a massive hit and sold 12,000 arcade unites....
While there is still debate over when exactly the ski was invented (the oldest pair of skis in recorded history, discovered in Vis, Russia, are roughly 6,000 years old), we know that the skis used at the first Olympic Winter Games were made primarily from wood. In...
Tennis For Two became the first video game after its invention in October 1958, but it wasn’t until 1970 that John Conwayinvented the first electronic board game and calledit “The Game of Life”. The move to digitize board games comes from an evergreen demand for them. Games like Monopo...
The history behind online skateboard games Skateboarding was invented in California in the 1950s, where surfing is a popular sport. Initially, there were no companies that produced skateboards, so people who wanted to give it a try had to make their own boards by cutting planks or wooden crat...
A centuries-old dice game with mysterious origins, Liar’s Dice, commonly known as Perudo or Dudo (Spanish for ‘I doubt’) is a fantastic bluffing game that can be learned in less than a minute. Plus, it was invented either by the Incan Empire or on pirate ships, depending on who yo...
The very first ‘Video Game’ was invented by Edward U. Condon in 1940, At first it was a simple game called ‘Nim’. In nim players try to avoid picking up the last match. Thousands of people played it, although the computer won at least 90% of the games. Around ten years later ...
the Atari 2600 making this game the first of its kind. In addition to the success of Pac-Man a new character was invented by the Nintendo known simply as Jumpman (later known as Mario). But has the early 80s made its way towards the midpoint of the decade other competitors soon ...
Yis anabstract strategyboard game, first described by Claude Shannon in the early 1950s. The game was independently invented in 1953 by Craige Schensted (now Ea Ea) and Charles Titus. It is a member of the connection game family inhabited by Hex, Havannah,TwixT, and others; it is also ...
At least to Turing, who re-invented the Minimax algorithm to play Chess even before he had a computer, and to Samuel, who invented a predecessor of TD-learning in order to build a Checkers-playing program in the 1950s. Games are important for AI because they are designed to challenge ...
With each of these developments, the public wondered at the cleverness of the communication pioneers and asked, “What will they think of next?〞 “They〞 thought of plenty. Alexander Graham Bell and the idea of passing speech by electrical impulses and invented the first telephone in 1876. ...