{"id":26,"date":"2021-12-11T05:08:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T13:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:53:09","slug":"early-video-games","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/computer-age\/early-video-games","title":{"rendered":"Early Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Play<\/strong>\u00a0these games:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon Trail 1990 version<\/a>\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/msdos_Oregon_Trail_Deluxe_The_1992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon Trail Deluxe 1992 version<\/a> <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ponggame.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ponggame.org\/\">Pong<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you have played Oregon Trail and Pong, can you describe why you think this was one of the most played computer games of its time? What about Pong? Why did this super simple game take off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post your thoughts to the class blog. Make sure to select the Early Video Games category.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-video-games-5\">Early Video Games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-video-games-4\">Early Video Games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/pong-oregon-trail\">Pong\/Oregon Trail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-video-games-the-oregon-trail-and-pong\">Early Video Games: The Oregon Trail and Pong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/the-rise-of-early-video-games\">The Rise of Early Video Games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/oregon-trail-and-pong\">Oregon Trail and Pong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-video-games-3\">early video Games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/people-bonding-over-playing-pong\">People Bonding over Playing Pong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-games\">early games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-video-games-2\">Early Video Games<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/early-video-games\">Early Video games<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play\u00a0these games:Oregon Trail 1990 version\u00a0Oregon Trail Deluxe 1992 version Pong Now that you have played Oregon Trail and Pong, can you describe why you think this was one of the most played computer games of its time? What about Pong? Why did this super simple game take off? Post your thoughts to the class blog. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/3558"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}