Video Game history and trivia
DID YOU KNOW The Pac Man video game is considered one of the most influential games of all time, it helped establish the Maze game genre where the entire playing field was a maze and rapid player responses were needed to escape monsters, outrace an opponent or navigate the maze with certain time limits.
In 1989, high on every big and small kid’s Christmas list was the Goddard/Davis designed Power Glove, a controller accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The idea that you could control games with hand motions was incredible!
If you’ve ever day dreamed of being the highest scoring player of a video game, winning the final round where you destroy the enemy squadron’s command ship and later that night, you’re approached by the game’s inventor identifying himself only as Centauri, who invites you to take a ride in his exotic-looking car.
DID YOU KNOW In 1990, Commodore re-packaged its popular Commodore 64 home computer as the little known ‘C64 Games System’ (C64GS) a cartridge-based home video game console to compete in a market that was dominated by both Nintendo and Sega.
Did you did ever own an Intellivision video game console? The Intellivision was multinational toy manufacturer Mattel Inc’s first foray into the home video game market and originally released in 1980.
