ABSTRACT
A BRIEF PRE-HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES/DOES HISTORY MATTER?/A HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES/THE 1970s/THE 1980s/THE 1990s/THE 2000s/PERSPECTIVES
The history of video games, as we have seen, may have begun with the launching of a tiny white torpedo in an MIT basement. However, while the three creators of the torpedo launch-more on them later-did inspire many a programmer of the time, these three were, perhaps needless to say, standing on the shoulders of giants.
