Waipukurau is the largest town in the Central Hawke’s Bay District on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It’s my home town. In a notice in a 1878 issue of the Māori-language newspaper ‘Te Wānanga’ – passengers were warned against playing cards on the Napier–Waipukurau line, reminding them that it was […]
DO YOU REMEMBER Your first video game experience? My parents brought us a Commodore 64 that had 6 games bundled together (Arcadia, B.C. Bill, Pedro, Cosmic Cruiser, Invaders and 3D Jumpin Jack) as a ‘Value Pack.’
DID YOU KNOW The Magnavox Odyssey was the world’s first commercial home video game console long before PlayStations, Nintendos, Mega Drives or even Ataris. It was designed by engineer Ralph Baer who wanted to build something into a television set that the owner could control.
DID YOU KNOW Batman’s greatest nemesis ‘The Joker’ is said to be based on actor Conrad Veidt’s character ‘Gwynplaine’ from the 1928 Leni-directed “The Man Who Laughs.”
Sport has a long history in the video game industry. Beginning in 1937, the manufacturer Bryan’s Automatic Machine Works released ‘All Sports’ an arcade game and during the same period also produced ‘Ball Sport’ along with 11 other game types.
