Computer Game Evolution
A journey through many years (and occasionally centuries) to find out who is responsible for modern computer and video games. May contain balls, Napoleon Bonaparte, robots, organized crime, and the US Air Force.
Computer Game Evolution
2.3 A Platonic Ideal
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Sometimes, a military network project becomes a place for Microsoft to borrow games from.
Intro
A Naval Cornfield
The gang plans a teaching machine
PLATO I
Taming plasma
PLATO gets political
Children, unleashed
Cussing on The Big Board
Hey, look! Another Empire
One man's Spasim
Are you gonna start an Airfight?
Tanks, a lot
The first in The Dungeon
The Game of Dungeons
The halls of Moria
Dungeon, but in French
Avatar, the proto-MMO
Cash for gold
What kind of Wizardry is this?!
Futurewar, with guns!
The lost ones
A house of cards
Pairing up tiles
The summit, and the fall
The legacy
Wrap-up