Old Video Games By Justin DeVaul 1972-1981
Nov. 29, 1972 The first pong machine was made.It was a smash hit
1973 Space Race Atari's second arcade game was made.(History Note: The owners/operators manuals in the Space Race cabinets were actually Atari Pong manuals and have the name PONG scribbled out and Space Race hand written over the top of the scribbled out Pong name)
Mar. 4, 1974 QuadPong came out. Its kinda like a 4 player versoin of pong.(hence the name *Quad*Pong)
1981 Donkey Kong was released in arcades.
Donkey Kong is one of the earliest examples of the platform game genre; it is sometimes said to be the first platform game.
Extra:
A kill screen is a stage or level in a video game (often an arcade game) that stops the player's progress due to a programming error or design oversight. Rather than "ending" in a traditional sense, the game will crash, freeze, or behave so erratically that further play is impossible.
Pacman kill screen.
Video games, like any other computer software, can suffer from bugs. A bug in a video game is not automatically a kill screen; to be one, the bug must occur consistently in the same point in the game and must preclude any further play.
Well this one was short guys but I need to go till next time see yah.
Work Cited
http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/arcade/arcade70.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong_(arcade_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_screen