Did you know Pong; Wasn't the first game made by Atari originally intended to be released to the public? A new Atari employee was tasked with making it simply as a test of his game design skills. Ever since Pong became a hit, video games have been a major part of the entertainment business. They have entered homes all over the world. “It cannot be said that video games were born from pinball, but it can be assumed that without it video games would not have emerged. It's like bicycles and cars. One sector leads to another and therefore they exist side by side. But to one day have cars it was necessary to have bicycles” (Steven Baxter). In 1931 David Gottlieb invented the first pinball machine. Gottlieb was a short, stocky person. He had brown hair and smoked a cigar. His machine was called the "Baffle Ball". Baffle Ball had no fins or scoring devices. The score was determined based on the hole the ball landed in. We had to keep the score in our heads. The only moving part was the plunger; the part that pulls back to throw the ball. The only way to check which scoring box the ball went into was to shake the cabinet in different directions. To give an idea of ​​how old the deflector ball is, imagine this: seven balls for a dime. Thanks to Gottlieb's success, imitators arose everywhere. Two of them were David Rockola and Ray Moloney. Moloney's first car was called "Ballyhoo". It sold so well that Moloney renamed his company Bally. His and Rockola's machines were cheaper but of lower quality. Before inventing Baffle Ball, Gottlieb invented a new game called Husky Grip. It tested the player's strength. All kinds of innovative games were popular in arcades before video games. The first innovation is… middle of paper… the design of Wii software specifically for surgical training. Doctors who had once played video games more than three hours a week completed a course of scored and timed surgical exercises much faster and with greater accuracy than doctors who had not played video games. Works Cited Inskeep, Steve. “Surgical interns warm up using video games.” Morning edition. NPR. WNYC, New York. January 21, 2008.Kent, Steven. The definitive history of video games. New York: Random House, 2001. Polsson, Ken. “A Brief History of Video Game Systems.” http://islandnet.com/~kpolsson/vidgame/mini.htm 2/10/08Rasser, James. "Nurse, joystick!" The monthly Atlantic. June 2007, page. 36. “The game console is almost 50 years old.” http://www.gamingdump.com/consoleevolution.html Game dumps. 12/2/08.Thompson, Jim. Game design. Hoboken, New Jersey: Quarto Publishing Inc. 2007.