“The life was hanging in a delicate balance
The health was left only for the sake of name!
The boss was beating him black and blue!
Fret not! It’s not real yet! It’s only a video game!”
Many older folks may have the memory of playing this game in the computer which is one of the oldest video games ever! Not the Prince of Persia which used to come shipped with the old Windows computers by default! I have played the modern versions of Prince of Persia starting from the Prince of Persia 3D and later ones like the Sands of time but even now the first game is one of the most difficult ones to finish! The Prince dies so many times even before you finish the first level!
But the game I mention here is not that! This game involves just a bad with a ball! Of course later on there have been so many versions of the game!
But the basic premise is of a bat in the lower end of the screen and a ball coming from above! You had to hit the ball and there were many challenges along the way! In the later modifications of the game and copies of the game you had the bat getting magnetic or sticky or getting multiple balls and so forth! That first game which has the distinction of being the very first video game is called the Pong!
But even though it is one of the first video game, there has been much debate over the identity of the first video game.
Now Pong was the first commercially available video game and launched a revolution that has seen the industry become enormously successful in the modern age.!
But a similar game had two bats which was called Tennis for Two and may also have the honour of being the first game since it had arrived on the gaming scene much before pong but did not have a general public release!
But even here the story does not end since there was another game which was sort of like a precursor to even the Tennis for Two and this was basically the cathode ray tube amusement device!
This machine used to let players control a light beam from a cathode ray tube using a knob. The player was tasked with lining the beam up with an object on the screen, often added using an overlay sheet in a similar fashion to how the Magnavox Odyssey operated. This device received its patent in 1948, a full decade before the creation of Tennis for Two and almost 24 years before Pong made an appearance. Yet the device is rarely credited as the first game by any but the most dedicated gamers! The uncredited inventors were Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann!
Now of course the first or the rest does not matter if the game is the best! First time a telugu actor became a chief minister and a good one at that also is the example of birthday celebrity Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao!
Now stop playing video games and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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