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>Videogames were in their infancy during the 70s. They didn't really exist at all during the 60s.

Something I read elsewhere. Very misinformed post.

>> No.8378327

>>8378323
honestly i don't know the details but didn't the u.s military have video games in the 60s? or what's basically the prototype of video games at least.

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>>8378323
>>8378327
Pic related is a mainframe video game, coded by a woman in 1964. There are a few older games too. I think Tennis for Two is older. They were mostly only played by computer students though.

>> No.8378351

>>8378327
>>8378340
Right. He said that the 70s is where videogames got their beginnings as consumer products instead of lab experiments. Which is a very dumb and ahistorical misconception.

>> No.8378353

>>8378323
Videogames are literally over 100 years old.

>> No.8378364

>>8378351
What part of that do you disagree with?

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>>8378323
Makes sense to me. Also with arcades. Talking about vidya with boomers their memories of playing defender and missile command and space invaders or whatever are from the 70s and 80s

>> No.8378541

When did that computer handheld football come out? I think that was probably the earliest actual video game that any consumer could get their hands on.

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>>8378323
This is all redundant when you consider videogames have existed since at least the (19)40's

>> No.8378692 [DELETED] 

>>8378340
YAAASS
SLAY QUEEN
WOMYN POWER

>> No.8378721 [DELETED] 

>>8378692
I'll have you know a woman programmer of color sent cismales to the Moon, you cischud

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>>8378721
Forgot pic

>> No.8378756

>>8378323
That's not a wrong take. It sounds to me like they are describing the quality and they really were at their start in the 70's. 80's was when they were marketable. Their peak was between the 90's and 00's. And that time defined video games as a whole

>> No.8378824

>>8378323
Cool hottake zoomiebro. Tell me more about what you learned from the contrarian youtuber.

>> No.8378862

IIRC there is some space game that Ken Thompson (inventor of C and UNIX) played on machines around 1968. IIRC someone else made it but he ported it to whatever machine he had access to at the time and played it regularly. AFAIK there are binaries of it around but there is no way to play it because no-one has managed to figure out the full instruction set for the machine it ran on. I don't remember the name but pretty sure it was "space" something.

>> No.8378880

>>8378862
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game) looks neat.

>> No.8379816

>>8378351
When people ask, tell them you are anti-abortion.

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>>8378340
Spacewar!, the predecessor to Asteroids, was made in 1962.

This wasn't some text adventure or space invaders shit. It was a sophisticated PVP game with actual physics.

>> No.8380061

>>8378756
They peaked before the latter half of 90's. 00's they were already in full nosedive.

>> No.8380962

>>8380061
Cringe.
I wonder sometimes if people realize that videogames exist in the world aside from the most mainstream of mainstream AAA titles.

>> No.8380974

>>8380962
Even indie titles feel like they're tributing way more often than they're innovating.

>> No.8381123

>>8380962
Didn't touch on what happened after the 00s. Feel like things have been recovering a bit. Having a blast with RDR2. There was nothing like that in the 90s.
VR gaming is also something that didn't really exist before (besides experiments like Virtuality in the 90s) and there's a lot of innovation there.

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There were video games in the 60s, but developers weren't iterating on or learning from each other, it was basically a bunch of people discovering the concept of a video game independently. The 70s marked the point where you can draw direct lines from one game to another, though people were still inventing the same concepts independently.

>> No.8381994

>>8381123
Based VR Chad

>> No.8382164

>>8378323
>during the 60s.
Boomer games, literally.

>> No.8383167

>>8378323
I can kind of see where he's coming from, a stretch to say they didn't exist but they were limited in their availability.

>> No.8384592

>>8378323
Whoever told you that is a retard

>> No.8384608

>>8378557
Based. Its possible hitler was a gamer.

A fat woman with purple died hair just passed me on a mobility scooter. Not from USA either.

>> No.8385084

>>8381123
>>8381994
samefag fringe

>> No.8385124
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8385124

>videogames existing in concept

>videogames being a thing you, as an average person in the 60s, would have any realistic access to whatsoever

>the same thing

You people are terminally autistic I swear to god.

You also have absolutely no concept of how different times were pre internet. If you were particularly well read, you might have heard about this theoretical new form of entertainment in a magazine or something, but realistically, nobody had even heard of "videogames" until pic related.

Before then, you just didn't have access to anything remotely resembling it, it was just technical demos and experiments by teams of computer scientists.

>> No.8386759

>>8385124
says

the

redditard

>> No.8386962

>>8386759
You'll never fit in, newfag

Go look up some mid-2000s 4chan threads and get triggered

>> No.8387418

I wrote a gam in basic on my amstrad in 1989

>> No.8387471

>>8380962
No, they don't. There's only 2 types of video games. Muh childhood (and that excludes mainstream AAA games the didn't play because they didn't own the system) and the newest hyped AAA shit.
>i don't want to play either of those, gee I guess I'm done with video games

>> No.8387518

>>8381131
Exactly this. The 70s were also, as far as I know, when video-games were first made available to the average person. If you wanted to play Spacewar! in the 60s, you would have to have been part of a very small community of professionals and enthusiasts who actually knew how to use a computer, and Space Travel didn't even leave the lab it was developed in. I imagine the other projects were very similar.

OP's post is accurate if you take "didn't *really* exist" to mean that they existed in an extremely limited form, in highly niche environments that most people wouldn't have even known about at the time.