COMPGAME.TXT
From: Chuck Darling
July 5, 2025
COMPGAME.TXT
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001start %TC2% (ADV) [XYZXY] *BUILDING CNE= CLE=
Computer Games... how it started...
Tennis for Two (1958)
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MIT PDP-1
Spacewar (1962)
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ComputerSpace
Nolan Bushnel invents the first
Coin-Op video game (1971)
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Nolan Bushnell creates PONG
and founds Atari (1972)
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Steve Wozniak invents Breakout
for Atari...
45 Chips ( pre- microprocessors)
Most games used over 100 chips ($$$)
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Steve Wozniak invents the Apple I (1976)
He offered it to HP, but they could see no use for it...
It was sold as a kit to Computer Clubs
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Will Crowther writes Colossal Cave Simulation on a PDP-10 in 1975...
Don Woods took Crowther's simulation and turned it into Colossal Cave Adventure (1976)
The game spread widely through the
DECUS user group, on the internet.
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Bill Gates and Neil Thompson
wrote Donkey.bas at 4am
as a demonstration of Microsoft Basic
for the IBM PC...
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Ken and Roberta Williams formed
Sierra Online in 1980...
Roberta, the creative writer, was inspired by the Colossal Cave
Adventure Game...
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***poof !!! ***
as the wisps of magenta smoke disappear, you find that
You are inside a small stone building...
a Wellhouse for a frosty Spring.
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The Colossal Cave Adventure was written
Just before that Apple I...
It was shipped with the IBM PC...
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