Here’s the story on how it all happened. Video gaming has been around for a while, but it all got started with two people; Ralph Baer and Nolan Bushnell. Ralph was a Magnavox engineer, and produced a little slice of technology called the Odyssey. Nolan headed up a company called Atari. Know your roots, folks. Gizmodo has the story.
This is important stuff. It really does show how recent video games really are in the scheme of things. It also helps put into perspective just how powerful video games really are, that they’ve come so far in such a short time. Where will gaming be 40 years from now?