But as it turns out, classic video games offer more than just kitchy kicks. There was almost nothing written, no research, and what little you did find was just plain wrong. My fear was the wrong history would become ingrained, which would be a massive disservice to society. Video games are the reason we're living in the world of computers and the Internet. Nobody was buying home computers to do spreadsheets.
Games are what drove technology and the computer market.
Playing video games is how computers got disseminated into popular culture. For anyone who has waded through the volumes of rules, instructions and scene-setting explanations accompanying most video games these days, the universes of change we have blurred through are summed up by reading the instructions to Pong. Released in 1972, the electronic tennis game is mistakenly considered by many to be the first video arcade game. Avoid missing ball for high score. You may have to be a tech head to understand the function of such things as microprocessors and ROMs, but you don't have to be one to appreciate the differences they make.