Johnny Higinbotham Biography

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Falling asleep in class, Johnny is having a hard time focusing and getting his work done. Than finally the bell rang. Running to the bus, Johnny forgets all about his chores and have only one thing on his mind, his Xbox. Getting home as quick as he can, he drop his backpack and run straight to his room, ignoring the trash and dishes that he has to clean. Popping open the CD case, he puts in Call of Duty. All through the rest of the day he just sits there, in front of the TV playing his game. Then slam, “Johnny!” his mother yells coming through the door just getting home from work. “IM NOT GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN” she yells, but still no answer. She walked to Johnny’s room and took the controller out of his hand. “I know you heard me calling you!” she yells. “No I didn’t” he says back. “Why haven’t you took out the trash …show more content…
The mark of the very first video game is Physicist William Higinbotham, in October the year of 1958. Him and some of his buddies used their brain and made an instrumental group. With the small analog computer they had, that display curves and angles, Higinbotham mad drawings and blueprints for the game that he had in mind. While working on that his friend that was a technician, Robert Dvorak, spend two weeks building a device, called the oscilloscope, for the game to be played on. After that was finished the first video game was ready to be played. It was called tennis for two. It didn’t have any fancy graphics as today, but it was a very popular game for a while until it retired two years later. Years after the a company called Magnavox brought the patient ,something like a sample, for the video game and begin to produce systems in the early 1970’s. After that other companies saw the trend and started making games and systems for it too (all from Chodos #1). Then in the mist of that companies started to think of other kind of games that they can make, and that way the start of the different genres of video

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