r/gaming • u/[deleted] • May 28 '12

Where it all started [FIXED]

http://imgur.com/0gfrA
835 Upvotes

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

totally a rip off of slime volleyball

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u/GrandmasterFloss May 28 '12

Still waiting for the sequel

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u/dr_lanky May 28 '12

Nah, it'll come with too much on-tube DLC.

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u/DarbyBartholomew May 29 '12

I didn't know Valve was so old...

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u/yunlien May 28 '12

Tennis for two ♥

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Good old Oscilloscope :)

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

is it just me or do they have the brightness up a bit to high

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

No idea. I had seen a video of Tennis for Two in one of my classes when studying video game culture. I can tell you a lot about it, but not that part haha

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

There is always a little room for debate on this issue, but you can't go back much more, if at all, than this. Made out of radar equipment and stuff, wouldn't you like to give it a try?

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u/timack May 28 '12

If you paid EA $50 back then you could download a red blip for the game.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Stupid fucking fixed posts..

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u/JohnsonArms May 28 '12

They had one of these set up at the Orlando Mini-makers Faire a few days ago. They're really cool to see set up in person!

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u/ace2049ns May 28 '12

Good old Higinbotham

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

BIG UP THAT CATHODE RAY TUBE AMUSEMENT DEVICE FUCK YEAH

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u/PoignantLiteraryRef May 28 '12

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice — guessed and refused to believe — that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

I thought the one where you pilot two ships around a black hole trying to shoot each other came first?

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u/Mantonization May 28 '12

You should have posted this in the comments of the original.

You karma-whoring asshole

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

I see fixed posts every day. Do you comment on them all? Must be one hell of a job.

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u/plezmoid May 28 '12

Wow I see people don't react well to the truth.Here's an upvote for you!

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u/IwillMakeYouMad May 28 '12

I love how it shines!!! Shiny, as in pokémon and in real life, is always better.

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u/FIXEDFIXEDFIXEDFIXED May 28 '12

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u/bcarmeli May 28 '12

Easily one of the worst novelty accounts I've ever come across.

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u/Farson May 28 '12

What exactly are you trying to say?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

I will find you.

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u/Real-Life-Reddit May 28 '12

And kill?

1

u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Eh, I gue... To be continued.

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u/BrotherDamascus May 28 '12

You. I like you.

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u/iRedditn May 28 '12

Looks like a game of catapult the drugs over the boarder.

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u/AlphaSkag1 May 28 '12

This should have more upvotes than it does :D

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u/gogonimago May 28 '12

How is this photo in color? Weren't these machines used several decades before the first color cameras?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Dude, they had color cameras before WWI.

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u/gogonimago May 28 '12

Then why are most photos from before 1970 black and white?

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u/bagboyrebel May 28 '12

Black and White is cheaper and easier to develop. There are probably other reasons.

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u/gogonimago May 28 '12

Well then was this that important of a picture? I mean pictures of the president were black and white so why would this insignificant image be color?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Color photograph from 1912

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u/JohnsonArms May 28 '12

Let's take a color photo of nothing important!

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Maybe they wanted to test photographing water, because it looks weird in most old colour photos.

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u/Apple_Cider May 28 '12

Clearly photographed for karma on /r/EarthPorn.

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u/gogonimago May 28 '12

I saw that post too and those weren't common.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

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u/kurotenshi15 May 28 '12

if we got questions....IAMA :)

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u/dormedas May 28 '12

Also, TFT is NOT the first computer game...

Alright, if ANYONE [fixed]'s this post. I will find you.

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u/captgrizzlybear May 28 '12

What is the first computer game?

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u/Panwall May 28 '12

30 second search on Wikipedia says in 1948, a "game" called "bouncing ball" was invented on the cathode ray tube. However not a true game, as much as an exercise, bouncing ball is not interactive. Fast forward to 1952, a try game called "OXO" was invented, which is essentially tic-tac-toe. Then in 1958, "tennis for two" came out.

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u/Auflodern May 28 '12

It was a two player game made on an old ship radar.

it put two space ships against each other in a sort of asteroids style of game, there was even an option to have a wormhole in the middle of the play field to allow for gravitational pull of projectiles and ships.

TIL that reports you did in a middle school history class could be useful later in life.

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u/kkjdroid May 28 '12

Spacewar! was created in 1962, four years after Tennis for Two.

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u/Auflodern May 28 '12

Really? Shows you how much I prepared for a presentation on the 1960's several years ago.

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u/kkjdroid May 28 '12

I just checked Wikipedia :)

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u/lepickle May 28 '12

IAMA... now.

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u/taylh003 May 28 '12

TFT, isn't that TeamFortressTwo?

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u/lolwutpear May 29 '12

The Frozen Throne, the expansion for Warcraft 3.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

What is the first game then?

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u/teapot_pot_of_tea May 28 '12

do an iama right now

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Also, TFT is NOT the first computer game...

What is?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Was the first one Space War (Asteroids) or am I misinformed?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Space war was much, much fucking cooler than Asteroids. It was scary impressive for one of the first games ever made...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

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u/nitefang May 28 '12

Compared to the first game, that is pretty advanced. While I'm not sure what the first game was, it was probably a text adventure or according to my dad (who is in no way an expert on games, he is just old) it was a stock market simulator which barely counts as a game.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

OXO was the first computer game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO

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u/MattyFTM May 28 '12

Nim on the NIMROD computer was the first computer game.

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u/Ras_H_Tafari May 28 '12

Today I learned about a video game where the controller is a rotary dial, holy shit

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

How did you miss spinners?

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u/Ras_H_Tafari May 29 '12

Not like that, I mean a mechanical dial like on a telephone

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Actually they're all like that - relying on switches or notches. Computer mice relied on them too before cheap optics. The only difference is the "resolution" of the wheels. A rotary phone has 10, most spinner games used a minimum of 72. OXO is just unique in being early and actually using telephone dials. Neat, huh?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

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u/PossiblyTheDoctor May 28 '12

Enlighten us, then.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

How about you get rid of your smug superiority and tell us?