For some irrational reason this article annoyed me. It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Describing the founders as "foundering figures" was amusing - I don't know if the image of taking on water and sinking was the author's intent, but I think I've just become guilty of the same thing I've accused the article of.
It feels like the output you’d get from an LLM if you had asked it to write in a literary style. It’s not well-written, and reads more pretentious than capable.
I came here to say exactly the same thing. The writing is so bad I thought it must be an AI, but then I realized that AIs tend to write much better copy than this drivel.
it's also wrong. Computer Space and Galaxy Games predated pong. And several non-coin-op games like Nimrod, Tennis for Two and Spacewar! predate pong by decades. A quick trip to the Wikipedia could have revealed this error.
I really want this to be an AI generated article because it means AI has come a long way in emulating human fallibility.
Ahoy did a comprehensive video about it: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc>, and a video is a more appropriate medium for discussing and demonstrating video games.
> Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console; in response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement.
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That's a first for me.
I really want this to be an AI generated article because it means AI has come a long way in emulating human fallibility.
> It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff.
Seems consistent with the name of the website: "Literary Hub"
> "A revolution was televised in 1972"
Well Tennis for Two was created in 1958 so "the first video game" seems like a stretch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
> Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console; in response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement.
Yeah, not first video game.
Star Trek itself, which I own several ports, it's from 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)
First computer games predate commercial releases of Pong.
Most of the console isolated journalists have no idea of 60 and 70's computers at all.
Hard pass.