History of the Video Game

Chronology• 1958 Willy Higgenbotham, Pingpong for 2• 1961 Steve Russell---SpaceWar PDP-1• 1966 Nolan Bushnell---Fox&Geese PDP-1• 1970 Computer Space---First Arcade Game,

Nutting Associates (Bushnell, Dabney Design)• 1972 Magnavox Odyssey First Home Game

(Analog)• 1972 Atari Introduces Pong Arcade Model

Willy HiggenbothamBrookhaven Labs 1958

MIT 1961Steve Russell Programmed

Space War on a PDP-1

100 KHz Clock Speed

XY Display

http://www.computerspacefan.com/MVC-261F.JPG

Computer Space 1970

Shifting Synchronous digital counters technology (Bushnell Patents)

Pong Enters Market1970 Atari Started (Syzygy)1972 Pong Coin-op Introduced

Magnavox Odyssey

1972 Analog

1975 Consumer Pong Ships

1977Atari 2600

VCS

Chronology (Continued)• 1974 First Driving Game (Gran Trak)• 1974 Intel designs first Microprocessor 4004

(too weak for games)• 1975 Pong for consumers ships• 1977 Asteroids, First Game to contain

Microprocessor 6502 • 1977 First Atari 2600 VCS Sold• 1983 The Bubble Year for 2600

Chuck E. Cheese’s

Androbot

Etak

ByVideo

Magnum Microwave

Axlon

Welcome to uWink

Welcome to uWink

Ordering Demo

Food Ordering

Media Ordering

SNAPEducation Systems

Soaring Creativity

What has this Citizen Scientist Discovered

•Classrooms are Obsolete One to Many Communication

•Creativity can be Taught

•Video Games Show the Way

•Exercise and Learning must be linked

School Almost Worked

Most Interesting Place in Town

Watching River Flow

Watching Corn Grow

Who is Paying Attention?

Competition For Student Interest

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School InterestBook InterestTelevisionVideo GamesInternet

Cost to Produce

Media Type Budgets

Movies $30 Million per Hour

Video Games $1 Million per Hour

TV sitcom $3 Million per Hour

TV Commercial $500,000 per Spot

Classroom $30 per Hour

Just does not Compete

Current School

Time Allocation

Writing Memorization Mathematics Creative Thought Dicipline

Disruption is Very Boring

If You Want Your TV Ratings to Go to Zero for 7 to 16 year olds

Put on a talking head

Public Schools Were Created in

the 1800’sFeed Workers into Factories

Creativity

Risk Kills Creativity

Figure out how to minimize risk

What is an Idea??

How Do You Get More Ideas?

Attend Weird Trade Shows

Embrace the Crazy

EDIT

Create Feature Matrices

Foreign Travel with Leisure

Distance from the everyday

Mash Together Two Industries or

Products

Neurogenesis•New Neuron Growth

•BDNF-brain-derived neurotrophic factor

•BDNF causes synapses to sprout new dendritic branches, providing more synapses to accelerate connections

Neurogenesis—New Neurons

BDNf– Miracle Grow for Dendrites

Video Games Will Teach and

Test

600 e-Modules Per Year

+200 AP E-Modules

Power Troika

Creativity Will Determine a

Societies Future Success

Current School Structure actually Stifles Creativity

The Snap System Teaches

Creativity

And How to Use Tools to Invent

Laptops Can’t Work

All Graduates Must

• Type at least 50 words per minute

• Write a Short story

• Write a screen play

• Direct a Movie

• Understand Plumbing

• Understand Electrical Wiring

• Program an Ardwino (open source microcontroller)

Old Fashioned Education

Fix Education and The World will fix itself