The comprehensive history of video games - in pictures!

[Turnarcades]

Here is a gem of a video with possibly more game history crammed into it than any other:



Yes there are a few things missing and a few discrepancies, but boy does it make you appreciate how far video games have come in 30 years!

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

I wasn't aware of how many consoles existed in the 70s... most of them were one-game-affairs, weren't they?
Well, cheers for sharing!

[Gray_Area]

It's surprising to me that with the Atari 2600 and Magnavox Odyssey2, console games were about as graphically complex and colorful as arcade games (until the next year, with Galaxian). Another thing was that so many companies were still coming out with pong-type units.

[ragnar]

It is long gone, probably tossed in the garbage and probably worth a good buck.  But as a kid, we had some console that was probably made in the 70s.  It had a switch on the console to switch betweeen 4 games (I only remember that pong was one of them) and it had two controllers.  Each controller had a spinner and 1-2 buttons.  I think it was a gun style controller.

I asked my mom about it about 10 years ago and she had no idea what I was tlaking about.  One thing is for sure though.  it is no longer in her house.  Anyone know what I am talking about?  I think I would recognize a picture of it.  Jsut a guess, but it was probably something sold at Sears.

The other thing that disappear like 20 years ao (mid 80s) was an electronic bowling game that was probably 8 feet long.  You through a puck at the "pins" and the tabs on the deck would cause htepins to flip up if you hit them.

So many things aregone from my moms house, that it makes me sad some times.

[HanoiBoi]

The other thing that disappear like 20 years ao (mid 80s) was an electronic bowling game that was probably 8 feet long.  You through a puck at the "pins" and the tabs on the deck would cause htepins to flip up if you hit them.

Really?? 

[WhereEaglesDare]

I wasn't aware of how many consoles existed in the 70s... most of them were one-game-affairs, weren't they?
Well, cheers for sharing!

Yea that is what caused the great videogame crash of the early 80s and allowed Sega, Atari, and Nintendo to come out on top

[ragnar]

The other thing that disappear like 20 years ao (mid 80s) was an electronic bowling game that was probably 8 feet long.  You through a puck at the "pins" and the tabs on the deck would cause htepins to flip up if you hit them.

Really?? 

Ya, it was a metal deck to.  Tin.  I remember it vividly.  It had to be from the 70s.  Maybe even the 60s.  It must have been relay driven.  Probably worth a fortune today but it found it's way to a dump in the 80s I'm guessing.