Videogames: In the Beginning
Publisher: Rolenta Press
Published: April 26, 2005
Place of publication: Springfield, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780964384811
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Video & Electronic - General; Games / Gamebooks / Crosswords
First sentence: This is the story of the early history of videogames of which I was a part.
Table of contents: label: Foreword
title: xiii; label: Acknowledgements
title: xiv; label: Cast of Characters
title: xvi; label: Introduction
title: 1; label: In The Beginning
title: 3; label: Who Really Invented Videogames?
title: 5; label: A Matter Of Opinion....And A Little Malice, Maybe?
title: 5; label: Pong's Genesis
title: 5; label: Priorities
title: 9; label: ...And Then There's Russell
title: 15; label: Higginbotham's Claim To Fame
title: 16; label: End Note
title: 17; label: Life at Sanders
title: 18; label: September 6th, 1966 - Genesis!
title: 19; label: Getting Started
title: 27; label: 1967 - Early TV Game Development
title: 30; label: Improving TVG Unit # 2 - The "Pump" Chassis
title: 39; label: August 1967 - TVG Unit # 3, Our First "Product" Is Ready!
title: 44; label: November 1967: Ping-Pong Games Are Here!
title: 45; label: Cable Games
title: 48; label: Video Quiz Games
title: 49; label: Back on Track - Building TV Game Unit # 6 And The Brown Box
title: 52; label: The Brown Box Makes It's Debut
title: 54; label: Calling All TV Set Manufacturers!
title: 56; label: 1971 - Keeping The Licensing Ball Rolling
title: 58; label: Making A Maximum Effort In Ft.Wayne
title: 59; label: Will The Consumer Like Skill-O-Vision?
title: 62; label: Odyssey Rolls Off The Production Line
title: 73; label: Flashback: Hard Times In The Defense Electronics Business
title: 74; label: Odyssey Makes Its Entrance!
title: 75; label: The Birth Of Pong
title: 76; label: Winter Of 1972-73 - Upgrading Odyssey
title: 85; label: 1973 - Rethinking My Act
title: 88; label: 1974 - Tracking Magnavox
title: 90; label: I Become A Freelancer
title: 93; label: Tracking Videogame Activity In The Field - And How Sanders Almost Got Into The Arcade Videogame Manufacturing Business
title: 94; label: 1974: Cable Games Redux
title: 107; label: Trying To Get Magnavox Into The Arcade Videogame Business And Super Odyssey
title: 110; label: Interactive Video Systems: Working With WPI And ILG
title: 112; label: The Ay-3-8500 Chip Saga
title: 115; label: The Centronics Game Interlude...Beware The Mafia!
title: 121; label: Monday Nite Football
title: 122; label: 1976 - History Redux
title: 124; label: 1976 - The Lawsuits Start
title: 126; label: Back To The Magnavox Saga Ca. 1975
title: 133; label: Salvaging Odyssey2
title: 134; label: The Telesketch Story
title: 135; label: Telesketch Finds A Home At Magnavox
title: 136; label: A Short Postscript To The Magnavox Support Story - Interactive Video
title: 137; label: The Coleco Story
title: 138; label: Coleco's Telstar Is Born - But There Is A Problem
title: 139; label: We Help Design Coleco's Next-Gen Line
title: 141; label: Learning To Live With Eric Bromley
title: 142; label: Leading Coleco Into Interactive Video Territory
title: 143; label: Coping With Tricky Legal Relationships
title: 143; label: Dual Image
title: 145; label: Using Audio Tape Players In Videogames To Get Superior Sound
title: 145; label: Kid-Vid
title: 146; label: Pushing New Technology
title: 149; label: The TV Alarm Clock... And Other Interactive Video Gadgetry
title: 149; label: Promoting Advanced Interactive Video Systems At Coleco
title: 150; label: Getting Videodisc-Assisted Colecovision Under Way
title: 151; label: End Game At Hartford
title: 152; label: Atari And Me
title: 153; label: Smile, You're On Camera!
title: 155; label: An Encounter With The Nintendo NES
title: 157; label: The Nintendo Lawsuit Interlude
title: 159; label: Interactive Video technology At Sanders - The IVTS Pinball Videogame
title: 161; label: Another Aside: The Precision Rifle Story
title: 163; label: 1988 - Leaving Sanders... But Not The Videogame And Interactive Video Scene
title: 168; label: Closing Thoughts About Videogames
title: 169; label: Appendix One: From Touch-Me to Simon
title: 171; label: Appendix Two: TV Game Chronology
title: 174; label: Appendix Three: A Chronological Summary of My Involvement with Magnavox (1975-1979)
title: 180; label: Appendix Four: From Our Loose Notes and Note Books - 1966 to 1972
title: 187; label: Appendix Five: Videogame and Interactive Patents
title: 197; label: Appendix Six: Schematics and Experiments
title: 221; label: Appendix Seven: R.H. Baer Firsts in Chronological Order
title: 235; label: Appendix Eight: My Designs
title: 251; label: Bibliography
title: 253; label: Contributor's Bios
title: 255; label: Index
title: 256