Video Games: The Movie Page #3

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and that was a display screen.

Before that,

most computers had maybe

paper tape outputs

or something like that.

But this one had

an actual screen on it.

I would go back to Steve Russell,

because he's the one

that actually made

the first playable game.

Russell's product was

so much fun to play

it infected every

PDP-1 in the world,

and they were trying to get

the people to get it

off the machine, 'cause it was

wasting so much computer time.

Others argue that electronic

games began much earlier

or that video games

were a byproduct

of Cold War technology.

As usual, the truth

is somewhere in the middle.

While many industries

and innovators

combined to pave the way

even for the possibility

of the first video game,

there is little argument

as to the visionaries

and the company that finally

brought video games

to the public... in a big way.

All the colors

of the world should be

Lovin' each other

wholeheartedly

Yes, it's all right

Take my message

to your brother

And tell him twice

Spread the word

and try to teach the man

Who's hating his brother

When hate won't do, ooh

'Cause we're all the same

Yes, the blood inside

of me is inside of you

Now, tell me

Can you feel it

Tell me, can you feel it

Can you feel it

Ooh, when you see what's

goin' down

Can you feel it in your bones

Can you feel it

Really, Nolan brought to

Atari the understanding

of what makes a good game.

He played a lot of games

and understood them.

When we started this thing,

we found that

the games that were most successful

were those that were

simple to learn,

but impossible to master.

Pong was somewhat of an accident.

It was what we consider

to be too simple,

but when it got all wired up,

and it was done by Al Alcorn,

he put in some twists to it

that were just remarkable

and made it a massively fun game.

One of the design feature's

flaws in the original Pong game

was the paddle would not go

to the top of the screen

all the way,

and I was gonna fix it,

but I didn't get around to

doing it, and I realized

that that feature kept

the game from...

two good people

from playing it forever.

It would never end.

The coining of the phrase

"video game" refers to an RGB,

or red, green and blue raster

or "video" display device.

Lets take Pac-Man for example,

the original.

This is a bitmap image of Pac-Man.

When enlarged, individual pixels

appear as squares.

Zooming in further,

they can be analyzed,

with their colors constructed

by adding the values

for red, green, and blue.

A bitmap corresponds

"bit-for-bit" with an image

displayed on a screen.

A bitmap is technically

characterized by

the width and height

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