History of building my Home Theaters

History of Video Games: The Rap (Atari To Wii)

A rap about the history of video games, from Atari to Wii. LYRICS: Back in the day, there were no video games, Old peoples’ childhoods musta been lame, Nothin to play? no, there was nothin to do, Until Atari came around in 1972, Pong became a hit in towns from south to north, Two paddles with a dot bouncin back and forth, And Pac-Man ran, from coast to coast, A yellow face, bein chased by outer space ghosts, In 1985, that’s 13 years later, Nintendo rocked a console with a destiny greater, Only 8-bits, but success was fated, Cause of Mario an italiano plumber they created, And if you point your gun at your tv up front, You could shoot birds for fun when they flea in Duck Hunt Sega stepped up big and doubled the bits, A new king in town, wore the crown, Genesis, A system so advanced, Sega gained the edge dawg, Meet the fast footed blue Sonic the Hedgehog The sparkplug for fighting games turn to fire, Mortal Kombat was a hit, uppercut like Street Fighter, Nintendo’s turn to step up the name of their brand, Took it to the next level with a game in your hand, Game boy in your palm? Nintendo stole the crown, Tetris was the bomb, moving boxes falling down, And now that a handheld game came here Sega rocked a color screen by the name game gear, Nintendo fightin’ back with the strength of King Koopa, Puttin’ out a sequel but this time around theyd make it SUPER, Super NES climbed the top of the chart, Watch out! banana peels, racin’ Mario Kart, But you wanna get bananas if you …

History Of Nolan Bushnell: Creator Of Atari and Pong – Part 2

Nolan Bushnell Profile: Nolan K. Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc and the Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theaters chain. Bushnell is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. Bushnell graduated from the University of Utah electrical engineering program in 1968 after he had transferred from Utah State University to University of Utah, and was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He was one of many computer science students of the 1960s who played the historic Spacewar! game on DEC mainframe computers. The University of Utah was heavily involved in computer graphics research, and spawned a wide variety of Spacewar versions. Bushnell worked at Lagoon Amusement Park for many years while in high school and college in his hometown of Clearfield, Utah. He was particularly interested in the midway arcade games, where theme park customers would have to use skill and luck to ultimately achieve the goal and win the prize. He enjoyed the concept of getting people curious in the game, and from there getting them to pay the fee in order to play the game. He would use his love for games and theme parks to help launch both Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theaters. After selling Atari to Warner Communications for $28 million, Bushnell purchased the former mansion of coffee magnate James Folger in Woodside, California, which he shared with his wife Nancy and their many children. The …