As we now enter the UK's fourth month of lockdown, I have
certainly found myself with a lot more time to indulge in playing
video games! Inspired, I thought I'd put Animal Crossing down
for a few minutes and take a look at the IP relating to the video
games that you might have not known existed.
The "first" video game – US 3,659,285
Pong is renowned as the first commercially successful video
game. As I'm sure most of you will know, Pong is a 2-D table
tennis game, in which two players each control an in-game paddle,
one on the left-hand side of the screen, and one on the right-hand
side, by moving them vertically up and down. If the player's
paddle hits the in-game ball, the ball will then bounce off the
paddle back to the other player's side of the screen. If either
player fails to hit the ball, the other player will gain a point,
and the first player to eleven points wins.
