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In the afternoon another amazing presentation. Two people who created the field of computer games.

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Allan Alcorn and Ralph H. Baer - you owe these guys

Ralph made the first ever home video game. First ever. It was entirely analogue and made up of discrete transistors. He patented it (along with 150 or so other ideas that he had) and got everything started. Allan Alcorn designed and built the first ever Pong game for Nolan Bushnell at Atari. Then he went on to create the hardware for the first Atari VCS.  That we have the video game industry in its present form is down to these two people.

Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 04:20PM by Registered CommenterRob in | Comments3 Comments

Reader Comments (3)

I watched a very interesting documentary recently about the history of the video games. It featured that gentleman I believe.
Please forgive poor spelling, I am sleep deprived :(
February 22, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterEarl Grey
Thanks heavens for the elderly programmers of yesterday to bring the games industry to life ! Did you see the brains behind the classic, "Tennis for two" ?
February 22, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterJDog
Unfortunately Jdog, William Higinbotham passed away in 1994, may he rest in peace.
February 23, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterIgnorantPom

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