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Video games, PC games, virtual truth: they are from an industry of several billions of books that develop at an incredible pace.
Ask anyone (finally, nobody) what is the first video game and will probably respond to “Pong”, the undeniable tennis simulator made through Atari and released in 1972. A year earlier, however, he reached “calculate space”, made through the founders of Atari, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It is a type of hybrid / primitive asteroids invaders. And before that, in 1958, there the “tennis for two” Proto-Pong, evolved in an analog PC in the National Laboratory of Brookhaven of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
But the first video game in Invent arrived here 24 years before. It is the Snapply entitled “Catode -Ray tube a laughter device”. His inventors, Thomas T Goldsmith, and is Ray Mann, presented a patent that day in 1947. The game based on radar screens of World War II, and turns out to be similar to the “missile” matrix of vintage command a description of a description of a description of a description of The description of the description of the description of the description of the description of the game is given in the patent application: “A cathode ray tube is used in the face in which you can see the indication of the radius or The electron package. In the face.
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The patent granted in December 1948. But the game never made the production.
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