From reading Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost's article, Racing the Beam, I have been amazed by the rapid speed of technological improvement. Therefore, I decided to do some research on Magnavox Odyssey, which was the first home video game console in the world.
From looking at Odyssey's inside, it looks far more sophisticated than Atari 2600, although they were both invented in the 1970's. (for pictures, please visit http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magnavox-Odyssey-100-Teardown/3531/1) However, the graphics were still very simple compare to the graphics in the video game today. In order to give you a hint on what kind of games people played on the Odyssey and to show its graphic quality, I want to show you all an advertisement that I found online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2EIsnr_cv4
Hopefully, it will let you guys learn more about the video games or even video game advertisements at the time.
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