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History of Videogames

History of Videogames
Magazine

Embark on an epic voyage across videogame history from the formative lab experiments of the Sixties, all the way through to the gigantic billion-selling industry of 2020.

Welcome to THE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES

History of Videogames

THE BIG BANG: STEVE RUSSELL AND THE CREATION OF SPACEWAR • Take a journey back in time to where it all began and hear from the man who coded the very first ‘true’ videogame

NOLAN BUSHNELL • FOUNDER OF ATARI

AL ALCORN • CREATOR OF PONG

ED LOGG • CREATOR OF ASTEROIDS

SPACE PIRATES • FOUR EARLY ARCADE GAMES THAT OWE A DEBT TO SPACEWAR!

THE 1970s • OUT OF THE LABS AND INTO THE WORLD

Games of the decade

AS TOLD BY DAVID BRABEN • FRONTIER DEVELOPMENTS’ FOUNDER AND ELITE CO-CREATOR REMEMBERS THE TECHNOLOGY THAT HOOKED HIM ON CODING

THE FUTURE STARTS HERE

OTHER SYSTEMS FROM THE SEVENTIES

ATARI King Of The Seventies • Atari birthed the modern videogame industry. It cracked the code of coin-op success, pioneered games marketing and successfully invaded the living room. But before its mainstream hits turned Atari into a household name, the company began as a scrappy group of Silicon Valley hippies making it up as they went along

Designing out of the box at Atari: Regan Cheng

The movers and shakers of Atari • The people that turned the company into a juggernaut

Building an industry • How Atari shaped the games business

Pong • EVERY SAGA HAS A BEGINNING

BAER’S ODYSSEY • Considered the father of videogames, Ralph Baer’s impact on the industry spreads far and wide. We remember our meeting with the late, great pioneer

The Big Guns Come Out

Simon Says

An innovative inventor to the end

THE IMPACT OF SPACE INVADERS • THEY DIDN’T COME FROM OUTER SPACE BUT A COLLECTION OF ALIENS MADE JUST AS BIG AN IMPACT HERE ON EARTH WHEN THEY BOUNDED INTO ARCADES IN 1978. CREATOR TOMOHIRO NISHIKADO JOINS A HOST OF DEVELOPERS AND CULTURAL ARTISTS IN DISCUSSING THE WIDE-RANGING EFFECTS OF SPACE INVADERS

TIMELINE • Charting over 40 years of repelling invaders

WORLD DOMINATION • How Space Invaders made its way into the zeitgeist

OUT OF THIS WORLD • Key games that define the series

MARKING 40 YEARS • How Taito and Square Enix celebrated four decades of Space Invaders

THE 1980s • A DECADE OF EXPANDING HORIZONS AND ARTISTIC AMBITION

GAMES OF THE DECADE

AS TOLD BY TRIP HAWKINS • THE ELECTRONIC ARTS FOUNDER OPENS UP O N A PIVOTAL DECADE FOR GAMING AS AN ART FORM AND A BUSINESS

THE WILD WEST

OTHER SYSTEMS FROM THE EIGHTIES

RISE OF THE BEDROOM CODER • Home coding began in the early Seventies and continues to this day, but the indie developers of the Eighties were special. Discover how a generation of young computer enthusiasts rebuilt the games industry from their bedrooms

BUILT ON BEDROOM CODING • THE FIRMS THAT MADE BEDROOM CODING THEIR BUSINESS

BRILLIANT BEDROOM CODERS •  INDUSTRY VETERANS THAT HAD HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

JET SET WILLY IN THE BEDROOM WITH MATTHEW SMITH • We spoke (and drank) with Jet Set Willy creator Matthew Smith, the archetypal Eighties bedroom coder, in the very house where he wrote his masterpiece

PRAISE FOR WILLY • Four special fans share their memories of Matthew’s masterpiece

THE RISE OF Nintendo® • FROM RELATIVE OBSCURITY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTS, ONE KYOTO-BASED COMPANY BECAME SO FAMOUS THAT IT BECAME A BYWORD FOR THE ENTIRE MEDIUM OF VIDEOGAMES. WE RETRACE THE STEPS OF NINTENDO’S PATH TO PROMINENCE WITH PAT CONTRI

FUTURE FOUNDATIONS • The key Eighties series that Nintendo would revisit for decades to come

THE HISTORY OF VIDEOGAME...

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