Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The games that started it all

Halo, Gears or War, Call of Duty, you name it. All these games wouldn't be here today...without the one game, that started it all, Pong. Yep pong, it was the most addicting and popular games back in the mid 1900's. I think you know how tennis, or ping pong is played right? Well pong is like that, all you do is move this big line up and down, and try to score against your opponent. The game should be easy for you, after all, you're just moving it up and down. At the same time however, it gets a bit boring and no one wants to play it. So what do you do? You make more new and exciting games like, Galaga, Pac-man, Astroids, Space Invaders, etc. These so called "retro games"(aka: old-school games) made gaming a lot better, and a whole new meaning to it, let alone they were famous in the 1970's and 80's and still is famous today. Every year, there's always a game, or game console that keeps every gaming business alive (unless they make really bad crappy games). Even though you don't have a game conslole (ps2, ps3, Xbox, etc). There's always games for the computer as well. Roller Coaster Tycoon, or Halo 3, there's always something new and exciting for us to experience and enjoy. And it was all because of Nolan Bushnell,the founder of pong.


For more information about this head to these sites bellow

Pong
Galaga
Call of Duty

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