Quote: "Sanders patented the concept of a so called "video game" in 1964"
Not true, in one respect anyway. I literally *just* read about this very topic last night in Game Developer Magazine, where they have an interview with the real father of video games, Ralph Baer (owner of Sanders), who obtained the first legal patent to electronic games... that part is true. But he called them "TV games,"
not "video games."
Here's his quote from the interview about the name:
Quote: "They were always called TV games. I have no idea who coined the term video game. That happened somewhere in the coin-op period, maybe around '73 or '74. Nobody called the original PONG game a video game. Nobody had heard that term.
To me, it was meaningful because the term "video" is now in use sort of generically for any kind of graphics, especially moving images, on a screen -- any kind of screen. But that's not how it was coined. A video signal was a very specific thing. It was a definitive term that only applied to raster-scan television."
Yep... I just typed that out by hand, no copy/ paste. and with this, I've did my part to educate tomorrow's generation on the history of our beloved industry
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lol anyway, Ralph Baer developed games while working on some secret government project, but the interview doesn't name specifically what the purpose of that project was. Now I want to know why the US military wanted to make games
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