When people think back to the beginning of gaming they’d probably think back to tennis for two, those who know what is thought to be the first game anyway. However there’s more to gaming then just the game. Going back to the turning point of time, going from BC to AD a Babylonian by the name of Talmud had a complication with three of his wives when it came to the division of his estates. Through two millennia’s of research into the matter he actually discovered the theory of gaming; his settlements were the first evidence of cooperative gaming. Weird to think it goes back that far really. Through the centuries the theory’s grown and seems to sound like hidden proper gander in what we play, the links below go further in-depth into the theory.
http://www.econ.canterbury.ac.nz/personal_pages/paul_walker/gt/hist.htm
http://en.whttp//www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/timeline_flash.html
Moving from the Gaming Theory and back to games. Now there’s a bit of dispute as to whether pong or tennis for two came first, evidence these days shows tennis for two came first, but where’d did these come from in the first place. Surprisingly enough the US Army. They’d been working on software to simulate situations for battles and firing sequences but thankfully somewhere along the same software went into more civil use and came to be the base use of the very first computer you could play on. You have to wonder if America planned it though; the whole American seems to have its arms wrapped round this one especially when you see that most games today are to do with war or if not the American dream again, brainwashing?
After the big fad with tennis for two and pong the sixties saw the computer size down a bit in the form of arcade machines bringing space invaders among other small but memorable games. We also saw the first proper house gaming system the ‘Magnavox’, which until the 70’s destroyed all other developing gaming systems.
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