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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi, I'm Medium Invader
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the classic video game Space Invaders,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I want to tell you a little bit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about where video games came from.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A video game is an electronic game
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has an interface designed for human interaction
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a video device.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simple.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Video games are used by scientists,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the military,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people like you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their evolution has spread across arcades,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consoles,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,computers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smart phones,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all kinds of other electronics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These days video games are everywhere,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they were actually made in science labs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, the earliest U.S. video game patent on record
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was in 1948,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the time it was referred to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a cathode-ray tube amusement device.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a mouthful!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the earliest video games include
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Nimrod computer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OXO,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tennis for Two,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my personal favorite, Spacewar!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But none of these early video games
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were ever sold to the public
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there were either too huge
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or too expensive
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get out of the lab.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This all changed when a man named Ralph Baer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked at his television screen and wondered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how else it might be used.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1972, Baer's idea to get video games
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of the science lab and into the living room
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,led to the release of a game console
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called Odyssey.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Odyssey allowed you to play a game on your TV.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At about the same time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two other people, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were working on something similar
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a little company called Atari.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might have heard of it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even if you haven't,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure that your Dad has.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Atari's first major game release was in 1972,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an arcade game called Pong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an immediate hit,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is credited
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the first commercially successful video game.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Atari then released a home version of Pong in 1974.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1978, competition between Atari
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and another game company called Midway
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was heating up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Midway had licensed an arcade game
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Japanese company, Taito,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that put them on the map.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The game: Space Invaders.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It featured iconic actors like me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it went on to become
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the second highest selling arcade game of all time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Space Invaders also helped kick-off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is known as the Golden Age of Arcade Games.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In response, Atari followed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the release of the arcade game Asteroids,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which ranked sixth on the list
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of highest selling arcade games.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a good game,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's no Space Invaders.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 1980, color came to arcade games,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this was also the year
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that another video gaming milestone was born.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pac-Man, created by the Japanese company Namco,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was brought to the U.S. by Midway.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Important to the spread
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of video games into popular culture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pac-Man was a character that could be licensed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't long before it had a song on the charts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Saturday morning television show,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all sorts of other products.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In just a year, Pac-Man arcade games
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made over one billion dollars in quarters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, in 1981, a company called Nintendo
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started making waves in the U.S. video game market
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their release of Donkey Kong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the earliest video game
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a story line.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The story went a bit like this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Donkey Kong is the pet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a carpenter called Jumpman.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jumpman mistreats his pet ape,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the ape steals his girlfriend,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving the game player to assume the role
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Jumpman and rescue the girl.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jumpman was eventually renamed to Mario.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other iconic arcade games from the early 80s include
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frogger,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dragon's Lair,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Mario Brothers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps the last iconic game considered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be part of the Golden Age of Arcade Games
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is Double Dragon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the first really successful example
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the beat-them-up genre.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In was released in 1987,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, like Donkey Kong,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it featured a damsel in distress storyline,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a storyline common in many video games.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the mid-90s, the Golden Age of Arcade Games
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was coming to an end,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the home game console
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was gaining in popularity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While arcade games continued
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to decline in sales over the years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the popularity of video games was merely beginning,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we'll talk about that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot more in part two
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a brief history of video games.