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Originally Posted by Einar72
What I find fascinating here is what the average 1945 person would think of a video game as we know of today.
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I have had video games since the 1970's, and
I am amazed by what the latest machines can do. It was early 1982 when the first "cockpit perspective" game was released, Star Raiders for the Atari 2600. ("Cockpit perspective" was the name at the time for what is now called "first person".) That game had a few white dots zipping out from the middle of the screen toward the edges to make you think you were flying through space, and little blob space ships that you shot at with the single button on the joystick controller. It sure was fun on my Sony Profeel monitor, though. After hardly playing for a number of years, I bought a Microsoft Xbox 360 and a driving game. The game
has a ghost of your car, from when you drove around the same lap the last time, on screen at the same time as it shows your accurately-rendered Shelby Mustang (or other car of your choice). Incredible.
Regarding playing video games on old TV sets, that same Atari 2600 had a switch to select between color and B&W mode. Using that switch, some cartridges had a separate gray-scale scheme that was easier to see than the color version on a B&W TV. Well, actually, before that machine, most video games were
only black-and-white...