Three Interesting examples of IT Solutions from Three Different Decades (Week 1)
1) Computer Space (The First Video Game) (1971) In 1971, there was a small game company named Nutting Associates, which kindled the fire of the modern game industry (which is worth over 170$ billion) with a game named Computer Space. It was a arcade type video game which featured a controllable spaceship that could be maneuvered and two flying saucers controlled by hardware which you needed to blow up. Although the whole concept of the game was simplistic and there was nothing much to it, it was still a start of a new age for the gaming industry and a backbone for future arcade games that followed such as Pong, Pac-Man, and such. The computer back in the time were too expensive for average customer use and the game could not be sold in bulk due to this. The developers of the game (Nutting Associates) came up with an idea to design a system that would have been cheaper to afford back in the day and was still capable of running the game. The original Design did not utilize any microproc