tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post7781479953384937309..comments2024-03-29T04:12:33.214-05:00Comments on The Golden Age Arcade Historian: Early Video Game Tournaments And Players Keith Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08421308095592306594noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-26356815258585058582013-04-27T17:26:44.965-05:002013-04-27T17:26:44.965-05:00Thanks for clearing that up.Thanks for clearing that up.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-67524470381720536842013-04-10T16:32:19.005-05:002013-04-10T16:32:19.005-05:00In the U.S. the terms "T.V. Games" and &...In the U.S. the terms "T.V. Games" and "television games" was still being used to refer to arcade video games in 1974.<br /><br />Not everyone was calling them "video gamees" yet.<br />The term "video games" appears to have started in 1973, but it took a few years for it to become the standard and there were a number of different terms used in the early years (i.e. "video skill game", "TV Tennis game").Keith Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08421308095592306594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167179463808604240.post-59632896315713728602013-04-10T13:57:28.269-05:002013-04-10T13:57:28.269-05:00Could this be the very first arcade video game tou...<i>Could this be the very first arcade video game tournament? Probably not, but it might well be the first national one. It's actually not 100% clear from the article that this was an arcade, rather than a home game tournament but given that Sega sponsored it and it was reported in Vending Times, it seems likely that it was.</i><br /><br />I wouldn't be surprised if they were arcade machines otherwise. I read "Terebi Gamu" on the sign in the photograph (TV Game), though that could be what Japan was referring to video games of all sorts at that point in time, and Sega was still in the arcade field then if they weren't doing home machines yet.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.com