Get in touch via email on Forever Sound Version on Facebook at /foreversoundversionįollow Forever Sound Version on Twitter at /fsvpodcast Author foreversoundversion Posted on Tags amiga, mod, pinball Leave a comment on Episode 70 – Pinball on the Amiga by Digital Illusions Episode 69 – A Number Between Sixty-eight and Seventy You can send me a few £ to help me keep Forever Sound Version going at /foreversoundversion Pinball Illusions (1995, Commodore Amiga) ‘Intro’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Illusions (1995, Commodore Amiga) ‘Extreme Sports: Main Theme’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Illusions (1995, Commodore Amiga) ‘Law’n Justice: Main Theme’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Fantasies (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Stones N Bones 3’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Fantasies (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Speed Devils 4’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Fantasies (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Billion Dollar Gameshow 3’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Dreams (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Ignition #2’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Dreams (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Nightmare #1’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Dreams (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Steel Wheels #1’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Dreams (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Beat Box #1’ by Olof Gustafsson Pinball Dreams (1992, Commodore Amiga) ‘Intro’ by Olof Gustafsson players spend more than billion a year on game content, more than billion on hardware o Tournaments can draw over in live audiences, more than 70 million watching on the Internet Concentration and globalization are the rule o Only 3 companies produce game consoles Microsoft (U.This episode is dedicated to three very similar games with very similar names, but all teeming with quality – Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies, and Pinball Illusions! This trio of Amiga classics delivered a ton of banging four-channel tunes courtesy of Olof Gustafsson, bringing some serious early 90s demoscene pedigree to the world of video gaming.
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Preview text Video Games Short History of Computer and Video Games 1931 o David Gottlieb invents Baffle Ball, first mass produced arcade game Plunger was only movable part 1933 o Henry Williams invents Contact, first electric pinball game with electronic scoring and scoring pockets that threw the ball back into play Slot machine makers begin making pinball machines with cash payouts o Seen as gambling, banned in many places 1947 Gottlieb invents game that offered free plays for high scores Stage is set for video and computer games o New technologies need to be associated with familiar industries People enjoyed gaming Games Emerge 1961 o Steve Russell at MIT, building on what others had done, designed an interactive game, Spacewar figure out how to make money off of it 1971 o Nolan Bushnell releases Computer Space, first video games 1972 Bushnell incorporates Atari o Pong sets off the game revolution Magnavox markets the first home videogame system, Odyssey, which sold for Developments 1975 o Atari markets Home Pong o Gunfight imported from Japan First imported video games First game to use a computer microprocessor 1977 o Mattel Toys brings electronic games to handheld devices Used LED diode) and LCD (liquid crystal display) screens 1985 o NES game console brings classics like and Donkey Kong to the home 1986 o Legend of Zelda introduces open structure play Early 1900s o Video games come to home computers 1993 Doom could be played several players at once over LANs o First of the perspective shooting games Video Games What is a Video Game? A game becomes a video game when the action of the game takes place interactively on screen o Includes MUDs (multiuser dimensions) Online interactive games A video game is a game when a place has direct involvement in the onscreen action to produce some desired outcome o Includes exergames Part of the gamification of America (using video game skills and conventions to solve problems) Who Is Playing? 190 million regular American players o Average player is 31 years of American gamers are over 36 o Female players 50 and older increased from 2012 2013 are female) o of parents play with their children weekly Scope and Nature of the Industry U.