task 2 week 2

The 1970's was meant to be the golden age of video arcade games with games like Galaxy Game which was set up at a university in stanford and it was the first coin operated video game. I never knew that, I always thought that pong was the first video game but it looks like a game i missed out on!
In 1972 when Atari was founded the company decided to make a game named Pong. It was the first well known successful arcade game that was released the same year as the Galaxy Game.
I still remember the Atari that my step brother used to have with games like James Pond and Chuck Rock! man they were great games, so very colourful and frustrating to complete haha but hours of fun!
Later on in the 70's such great titles came out such as Asteroids, Space Invaders and Pac Man which became hugely famous and are still played on today. These arcade machines were in most super stores/malls and arcades across the globe, button bashing games were at their peak.
In 1979 Activision was created they were the first third-party developer of video games. Activision were well known for their Tony Hawk Skateboarder series.