Video Games: The Movie Page #2

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role playing, casual games,

shooters, strategy games,

open world versus linear games,

sports games, racing games.

This list goes on and on,

and each genre offers its own

special mix of interactive

entertainment.

And yes, each is wildly

successful in its own way.

In the past decade, video games

have gone from a six billion

to an over $24 billion

annual industry,

far surpassing movies and music.

The bottom line?

Video games are here,

and they are here to stay.

But where did all this begin?

The answer is...

well, a bit complicated.

That's the debate of the century,

who's the father of video games?

And, you know, you can always say

Nolan Bushnell

because he founded Atari.

The godfather of video games

has to be Nolan Bushnell.

It's gotta be Nolan Bushnell.

I would say Bushnell.

Nolan Bushnell.

I would probably

give that to Bushnell.

Nolan Bushnell.

I would probably be

in the Nolan Bushnell camp.

Man who came up

with the whole Atari series.

I'd have to say

the creator of Atari.

Whoever created Pong.

Ralph Baer.

You know, back in the late '60s,

early '70s, makin' the Brown Box.

Ralph Baer, 'cause he

created the first console.

I think we both agree,

it was Ralph Baer.

Oh, Ralph Baer.

I can take two

different angles here.

I can say, you know,

whoever started

the entire ball rolling

is whoever created Pong.

Whoever started games

as we know them today,

I'm gonna have to say

Shigeru Miyamoto

from Nintendo.

Miyamoto.

Shigeru Miyamoto.

I think... I think you know

who Shigeru Miyamoto is.

But I'd go all the way back to MIT,

the guys who did Spacewar,

John Carmack.

Hideo Kojima, I'm telling

you right now, brilliant.

You can't just pick one,

because it's doing injustice

to all the other people

that have helped

develop the games.

I don't think I've ever really

thought about who started gaming.

I just appreciate that they did.

Some say it began here,

a small back room

at the Massachusetts Institute

of Technology in 1962

on the PDP-1,

the first computer

to utilize a visual display.

Steve Russell,

which I consider to be

the fellow who I

stood on the shoulders of,

did a game called Spacewar

for the PDP-1.

And I played that

in college while working

in an amusement park,

and I felt if I could bring

Spacewar to the arcade,

it would make a lot of money.

It was a game developed

as a demonstration

of the capabilities of a digital

equipment corporation,

PDP-1 computer back in 1962.

A group of students

and employees at MI wanted to create a game

that really would showcase

the capabilities

of this new machine

that had one particular feature

they were really interested in,

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