Links for 2012-03-18 [del.icio.us]
- Are video games just propaganda and training tools for the military? | Technology | The Guardian
Like much of early computing, nascent digital gaming benefited from military spending. The prototype for the first home video games console, the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, was developed by Sanders Associates, a US defence contractor. Meanwhile, pre-digital electronic flight simulators, for use in both military and civilian training, date back to at least the second world war. Later, the games industry began to repay its debts.
