{"id":321,"date":"2007-05-15T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/321"},"modified":"2007-05-16T10:24:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:24:04","slug":"video-games-turn-forty-article-at-1upcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/321\/video-games-turn-forty-article-at-1upcom","title":{"rendered":"Video Games Turn Forty &#8212; Article at 1UP.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&#038;cId=3159462\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/vg40_small.jpg\"alt='Video Games Turn Forty' class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true: in 1967, Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison created the world&#8217;s first television video game hardware.  And forty years ago <em>today<\/em> (May 15th, 1967), the first television video <em>game<\/em> took place.  Who won?  Mosey on over to 1UP.com and check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&#038;cId=3159462\" target=\"_blank\">full feature<\/a> I wrote about it.  You&#8217;ll find out that answer and a lot more.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out the interviews I&#8217;ve conducted with the two participants in the monumental contest, <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/features\/20070323\/edwards_01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Baer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/319\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Harrison<\/a>.  I just published the Bill Harrison one today.<\/p>\n<p>As an extra treat, here&#8217;s a video of Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison demonstrating their <em>Ping-Pong<\/em> game on the &#8220;brown box&#8221; prototype at Sanders in 1969.  <em>Ping-Pong<\/em> would later form the basis for Atari&#8217;s famous <em>Pong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1LsRGUODHlQ\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1LsRGUODHlQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I would like to extend a special thank-you to Ralph Baer, Bill Harrison, and the family of Bill Rusch for their generous and invaluable help with this story.  I could not have written it without them.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true: in 1967, Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison created the world&#8217;s first television video game hardware. And forty years ago today (May 15th, 1967), the first television video game took place. Who won? Mosey on over to 1UP.com and check out the full feature I wrote about it. You&#8217;ll find out that answer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}