Museum Ryan

This is the start of our museum tour in history! Welcome aboard, strap in, it's going to be a bumpy ride! Let's begin! <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://media.timeout.com/images/100889419/750/422/image.jpg> </div> [[1950s]] [[1960s]] [[1970s]] [[1980s]] [[1990s]] [[2000s]] [[Go to The ending/Conclusion!->The end!]]

This is the 1950's room! Video games were very much in their infant stages and very new to the modern world around us. Most games were just simple programmes coded by computer scientists to test various things. The first image is from 1950, it is Claude Shannon, a computer scientist, laying out the basic guidelines for a programmed chess-playing computer in an article, "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess." That same year both he and Englishman, Alan Turing, create chess programmes! <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1950-384x497.jpg> </div> The second image is from 1959, it's students at MIT, who would create Mouse in the Maze on MIT's TX-0 computer. Users first draw a maze with a light pen, then a mouse navigates the labyrinth searching for cheese. In a revised version, a bibulous mouse seeks out martinis yet still somehow remembers the path it took. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1959-copy-384x497.png> </div> [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]] [[Go to 1960s->1960s]]

Welcome to the 1960's! As maintrame computers become more widespread in government, business, and university labs, more people begin designing innovative games for them. In 1962, MIT student Steve Russell invents Spacewar!, the first computer-based video game. Over the following decade, the game spreads to computers across the country. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1962-final-384x497.jpg> </div> [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]] [[Go to 1970s->1970s]]

Welcome to the 1970's! Video games started to becoem more wide spread and monderized here. Video games mainly reached mass audiences through coin-operated arcade games and home consoles. The image is from 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari develop an arcade table tennis game. When they test it in Andy Capps Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, it stops working because people played it so much it jammed with quarters. Pong, an arcade legend, was then born. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1972-Pong-copy-384x497.jpg> </div> [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]] [[Go to 1980s->1980s]]

Welcome to the 1980's! Here Video Game arcades reach their heyday as home consoles-led by Nintendo begin to take sway. At home consoles and hand helds become a new exciting technology in the market! This image is from 1985! The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) revives an ailing United States video game industry two years after the Nintendo Corporation released it in Japan as Famicom. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1985-384x497.jpg> </div> This image is from 1989. The Nintendo Game Boy popularizes handheld gaming. Game Boy is not the first handheld system with interchangeable cartridges-Milton Bradley introduced Microvision 10 years earlier-but it charms users with its good game play, ease of use, and long battery life. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1989-Game-Boy-384x497.jpg> </div> [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]] [[Go to 1990s->1990s]]

Welcome to the 1990's! Console wars heat up and computer game makers begin to explore the possibilities of playing on the Internet This image is from 1995! Sony releases PlayStation in the United States, selling for $100 less than Sega Saturn. The lower price point, along with the arrival of Nintendo 64 in 1996, weakens Sega's home console business. When Sony PlayStation 2 debuts in 2000, it becomes the dominant home console and Sega exits the home console business. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/1995-384x497.jpg> </div> [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]] [[Go to 2000s->2000s]]

Welcome to the 2000's, also known as modern era gaming! Online play-whether on console or computer-comes to the fore. This is gaming as we know it to date for the most part, it shaped all the games we currently play today and enjoy, and it is what most of us grew up playing! This image is from 2001! Microsoft enters the video game market with Xbox and hit games like Halo: Combat Evolved. Four years later, Xbox 360 gains millions of fans with its advanced graphics and seamless online play. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/2001-384x497.jpg> </div> This image is from 2004. Valve energizes PC gaming with its release of Steam. The digital distribution platform allows players to download, play, and update games. <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2021/08/2003-Steam-384x497.jpg> </div> [[Go to museum ending/conclusion room!->The end!]] [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]]

This concludes the history of video gaming through the 1950's to 2000's modern day gaming! I hope you enjoyed your tour, i was your tour guide Ryan! Feel free to leave tips for me in the jar below! Thank you and you're welcome to back anytime! BYE! :) <style> img { max-width:100%; max-height: 100%; } </style> <img src=https://images.vexels.com/media/users/3/237381/isolated/preview/211d64b239bce23ba5303eb569f21a6f-hand-drawn-tip-jar.png> </div> <3 -Ryan [[Go to main entrance->Intro aka Entrance]] [[1950s->1950s]] [[1960s->1960s]] [[1970s->1970s]] [[1980s->1980s]] [[1990s->1990s]] [[2000s->2000s]]