1950s video games. List of 1970s video games. 1971 galaxy game computer space empire star trek the oregon trail baseball 1972 pong hunt the wumpus star trek. Categoryvideo games set in the 1950s. The late 1950s and early 1960s birthed two of the most important games in the history of video games tennis for two and spacewar.
Launch of magnavox odyssey 1973 gotcha space race. This category has the following 9 subcategories out of 9 total. Hopscotch required sidewalk chalk but other than that cost nothing. In 1950 charly adama created the bouncing ball video game program for mits new whirlwind computer the first computer in 1952 oxo a computer program for tic tac toe also known for the university of cambridge.
Basic computer games book 1974 tank maze war spasim gran trak 10 speed race 1975 colossal cave adventure gun fight indy 800 dnd. Going by this broader definition the first video games appeared in the early 1950s. Make your own website. In 1950 charly adama created the bouncing ball video game program for mits new whirlwind computer the first computer to display real time video signals.
The game had been worked on since the late 40s but was demonstrated a year after bertie the brain in april of 1951. This category is for video games with a significant portion set in the 1950s. The earliest video games. Video games set in 1951 1 p video games set in 1952 2 p video games set in 1953 2 p.
Play games right here. When the weather allowed children of the 1950s played games like tag hide and seek leap frog marbles and hopscotch. Leap frog involved kids lining up bending down and jumping over each other in a row. Jump to navigation jump to search.
They were tied largely to research projects at universities and large corporations though and had little influence on each other due to their primary purpose as academic and promotional devices rather than entertainment games.