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It’s the noun stupid - Video Game Consoles

Posted by Jon Peddie on June 23rd 2010 | Discuss
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I couldn’t understand after all these years why the press keeps referring to, and getting excited about “video games,” and yet never mentioned the PC. The first console dates back to the “Brown Box,” Ralph Baer developed at Sanders in 1962 (although Baer says he thought of it in 1952.) Sanders licensed it to Magnavox in 1969, and Magnavox then released it in 1972 as the Odyssey. However, the first computer game, “Spacewar,” was developed on a PDP-1 in 1961 by Martin Graetz, Steve Russell, and Wayne Wiitanen at MIT. Actually, using a computer to play a “game” dates back to…

Those ungrateful consumers

Posted by Jon Peddie on June 11th 2010 | Discuss
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Look at all we’ve done for them and have they once said thanks? No, all they want to do is talk about the good old days. The good old what? You mean when we had Windows 95, and a laptop had VGA resolution in a nine-inch screen, weighed ten pounds and ran on a battery for almost three hours? Yeah, that was great wasn’t it? Today we hardly even mention the battery life of a laptop. Kathleen Maher has a Vaio that refuses to quit, in fact she runs out of energy before it does. She also has an iPad and…