In 1958, William Higinbotham created the first video game, a tennis game played on a 5-inch (13-cm) display.

“Pong”

How many of you have played it? Atari 2600 with the paddles?

Think about how far we have come in those 47 years, and try to imagine what games (or anything) will be like in another 47. Sick.

 

Yea. I like how the PS 3 will feature actual real life backgrounds with characters added in. Now thats cool.

 

The next step for video games is going to be a complete replication on screen in terms of people, places, objects, etc. to a point where the video game will be indistinguishable from reality. Once this is done there is nothing else that can be accomplished unless we're all willing to have our nervous system tweeked with like the blind guy who had a video camera attached to his optic nerve. Live the video game, be in it. Matrix is the final step.

 

I think the next step would be VR. and after that the VR games that are indistinguichable from the real life. I know that VR is old news, but I think they will come up with something much better

 

I used to play SoCoM 2 US Navy Seals every day

 

Teradactle was the sweetest virtual reality game ever!

 

zomg, its dot-hack//sign all over again!!!!

 

pong...it was entertaining then and still is now

 

Damn right! I have an Atari, and an NES that i play whenever i get sick of new games. Its nice to go back to the old school once in a while.

Someone needs to come out with an affordable racing simulator. With ALL different kinds of racing (rally, auto x, road, F1, whatever) I'm not talking GT4 with a chair and steering wheel mounted together. I want something like that video that was posted here not too long ago, i'll dig it up. But anyway, if i had one of those, i'd be set for life.

 

i still play my NES as much as most ppl play their xboxes and ps2s. legend of zelda...favorite game all my life.