VIDEOGAMES IN USA
Behind Japan, United States is the second most important country talking about videogames, but, after Nintendo and Sony, all the other companys are from the United State and United Kingdom, such us Ubisoft, Microsoft, Bethesda, Rockstar, Apple...
Today United States is really strong in this term and is, in a lot of aspects, better than japan. Is important to say that the first videogame was created in the U.S.A, Willy Higinbotham creates it and called it Tennis for two.
Today United States is really strong in this term and is, in a lot of aspects, better than japan. Is important to say that the first videogame was created in the U.S.A, Willy Higinbotham creates it and called it Tennis for two.
Willy Higinbotham
William (Willy) A. Higinbotham (October 25, 1910 – November 10, 1994), an American physicist, is credited with creating one of the first computer games, Tennis for Two. Like Pong, it is a portrait of a game of tennis or ping-pong, but featured different game mechanics that have very
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little resemblance to the later game. As the Head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, he created it on anoscilloscope in 1958, to entertain visitors during visitor days at the national laboratory. He helped fund the nuclear nonproliferation group, Federation of American Scientists, and served as its first chairman and executive secretary.
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