I recently read The Medium of the Video Game, a book about how the video game has evolved since it first emerged commercially in 1972. Magnavox Odyssey was the first released home video game and PONG where to be the most famous, though first released only as an arcade game. It’s facinating to read about the first few pioneers in the video game industry and how they overcame various techinical limitations.
The various articles discuss many aspects of video games such as time and space and how they relate to our own time and space perception. The book offers many interesting points about how we design video games and surely is recommended to read for anyone wanting to design their own one day.
