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William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.
In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Ralph Baer was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm. Ralph Baer first conceived of his idea in 1951 while working for Loral, a television company.
In 1971, Nolan Bushnell together with Ted Dabney, created the first arcade game. It was called Computer Space, based on Steve Russell's earlier game of Spacewar!. The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell (with help from Al Alcorn) a year later in 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers that same year. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game.
Larry Kerecman was one of the first first operators of video arcade games, including Computer Space. He writes that, "The brilliance of these machines was that Nolan Bushnell and company took what was computer programming (in Space War) and translated it into a simpler version of the game (no gravity) using hard-wired logic circuits. The printed circuit boards that comprise electronics of these games use integrated circuits called small-scale integrated circuits. They consist of discrete logic chips and gates or gates, 4-line to 16-line decoders, etc. straight out of the Texas Instruments catalog. The shape of the rocket ship and flying saucer even are visible in a pattern of diodes on the PC board." In 1972, the first commercial video game console that could be played in the home, the Odyssey was released by Magnavox and designed by Ralph Baer. The game machine was originally designed while Ralph Baer was still at Sanders Associates in 1966, Baer managed to gain his legal rights to the machine after Sanders Associates rejected it. The Odyssey came programmed with twelve games.
In 1976, Fairchild released the first programmable home game console called the Fairchild Video Entertainment System, and later renamed Channel F. Channel F was one of the first electronic systems to use the newly invented microchip invented by Robert Noyce for the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation that allowed video games to not be limited by the number of TTL switches.
Examples of games in the real-time strategy genre include Warcraft, StarCraft, Command and Conquer, Age of Empires and Total Annihilation. Examples of turn-based games include Sid Meier's Civilization, the Heroes of Might and Magic series, the Fire Emblem series, and Shattered Union. Examples of hybrid games include Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, Age of Empires III, and upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire. A different genre which focus on a set amounts of units, and do away with the resource gathering and unit production aspects of RTS games is real-time tactical (RTT) games. Noteworthy examples are the fantasy Warhammer: Dark Omen game, one of the first purely RTT titles, the futuristic Ground Control, which distilled the combat operational aspects of Command & Conquer and Total Annihilation into a purely tactical form, the Close Combat series, where the player controls units in the Second World War, and the Total War series, reasonably realistically recreating empire building and epic battles in various historical eras. These games place greater emphasis on purely tactical aspects, contrasted to the production-economical focus of RTS games, and consequently have much more advanced facilities for operational-tactical unit control and planning and implementation of more advanced battlefield tactics, which is intentionally stylised, simplified and naïve in RTS titles. There is also a relatively small genre of turn-based tactics games predominantly consisting of skirmish-oriented versions of popular computer role-playing games.
As graphics became more common, adventure games began to supplement and later on replace textual descriptions with visuals (for example, a picture of the current location). These graphical adventure games still used textual input. There is still an active community of interactive fiction authors and players, although major commercial enterprises are rare.
The growing use of mice led to the 'point-and-click' genre of adventure games, where the player would no longer have to type commands. The player could, for example, click on a hand icon and then on a rope to pick up the rope.
In the late 1990s the genre suffered a large drop in popularity, mass-market releases became rare, and many proclaimed the adventure game to be dead. However, as of 2005, the adventure game genre is showing signs of a revival, with games such as Trace Memory, Fahrenheit, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and Dreamfall being produced.
The most notable, and without a doubt most famous and best series of adventure games, is The Legend of Zelda series. Other notable titles include Day of the Tentacle, the King's Quest series, and the Monkey Island games. Some more recent notable titles include The Longest Journey and Grim Fandango. The more action-oriented adventure games, such as Full Throttle, incorporate other modes of gameplay.
I found it upsetting that 5 of the 6 people used the argument that the games are no longer available and that therefore the developers are not losing any money as their excuses for pirating roms.
First, because it's irrelevant. It's up to the people that made the product or the people whom they transfered their rights to whether or not the product should be available to not. To give a clear example, someone could make a game available for a limited time only on purpose, that doesn't give you a right to pirate it if you didn't get it during the time it was available.
Second, because it's false. Companies are still making money off their old games. Nintendo was brought up several times but Nintendo in particular has been making their games available. One, through GBA games (Mario 2, Mario 3, Yoshi's Island, F-Zero) are all available. Pirating a rom is directly influencing whether people will buy these products. Why buy Mario 2 for GBA if you already downloaded the ROM for free?
One arguement would be that you already purchased the SNES cartridge. Fine, in that case either play it on your SNES or in this particular case you could argue a ROM file is okay for *you*. That does NOT make it okay for someone that has never paid for the original cartridge or has since sold the cartridge to someone else.
Also, Nintendo has been using older NES games as bonuses in GC games. For example Animal Crossing has several NES games available as bonuses. Clearly Nintendo put that feature in because they thought it would be cool and therefore increase sales and also give the player rewards inside the game. But, if you pirated the ROM then clearly it's not a plus for you and you are less likely to buy AC. Again taking money from Nintendo because you pirated a rom.
Finally, in this world of Java enabled cell phones, companies are using their old titles. I can play PacMan, Mappy, Space Invaders, Pengo, Scamble, Tetris, and hundreds of other games on my cell phone. If I instead pirate the roms, why would I need to buy the cell phone version? Especially when in a couple of years the cell phones will be fast enough to run the emulators. Again, the excuse that these titles are old is irrelevant. They ARE still being sold and if a particular title is not being sold today that does not mean it will not be sold tomorrow.
On the other side of all this, to Matthew Cinquemani, I know exactly what you mean about them not feeling the same on a PC. Try playing them on an XBOX. In that case, at least to me, they do feel almost exactly the same. (PS: I have not played any emulated games on my XBox for which I do not own the cartridge)
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" A decade ago, video game emulators epitomized the cutting edge of programming technology. Ten years hence, they are the subject of a heated debate over copyrights and the video game industry's future. Emulators, which provide conversion software that enables games to run on personal computers ("PC's") and other systems or platforms for which they were not originally designed, have become a staple among gaming enthusiasts. Several factors have contributed to the robust market for emulation..." There's a demand for anything retro, to be honest. Especially when we're dealing with things that you can't obtain anymore at all.
How to reduce demand for emulators and Roms? You can't. Best to make some pocket change from it. Either release EVERYTHING old at a reasonable price, (maybe like an I-tunes model? 99 cents for a NES rom, 1.25 for a SNES rom, a flexible price for a MAME rom?), or don't even bother and just public domain it all, if it wouldn't be profitable. An emulator is a piece of software that uses your hardware to emulate, or imitate, another piece of hardware. Emulation and emulators are officially permitted dew to the fact that the emulators are not copies of the original piece of equipment. They are original software designs that have similar characteristics as the emulated hardware. The emulator reflects the creativity of its maker, and almost never has any actual connection to the original design. There are often many different emulators off of a single piece of hardware and the different emulators also have different characteristics themselves. So choosing the right emulator can be difficult, which is why you should always try them and ask around for other peoples favorites.The size of the emulators is small, around 200kb-1MB, but the size of the games depends on the system for which those games are designed. For example, A SNES ROM is usually between 500kb-6MB. On the other hand an N64 ROM size ranges from 8MB to as much as 64MB. There are even larger games for PSX and DC as those are from CD's they are a maximum of 650MB in size. PSP PSP PS P P S P sony PSP psp
And before anyone suggests that I can check e-bay or a local game store and pick up used carts, I believe that in the big ethics scale of things, e-bay and used carts are lower on the ethics scale than just downloading it. (The best being ordering a shrinkwrapped copy directly from the producer/online, I.E Steam)
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