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OXO
OXO was a computer game developed by Alexander S. Douglas in 1952 for the EDSAC computer. It was basically and emulation of naughts and crosses. OXO is the earliest known game to display visuals on a video monitor -
Tennis for Two
Tennis For Two was an electronic game developed in 1958 on a Donner Model 30 analog computer, which simulates a game of tennis or ping pong on an oscilloscope. it was the first video game to use a graphical display -
Computer Space
Computer Space is an arcade video game released in 1971. It was the first of its kind and it paved the way fro many arcade games that would come behined it. -
Odyssey
Odyssey was the first ever game that could be played on a TV, It was complex, with many electronic components, and very expensive. -
Mario Bros.
Mario Bros. is a platform game published and developed for arcades by Nintendo in 1983. It was created by Shigeru Miyamoto. It was a huge success and a lot more versions of this game have been released since. at times this game has been the only thing that prevented nintendo from going bankrupt -
Game boy + Tetris
Tetris was the first ever game that could be played on a handheld console. The gameboy (the platform) was realesed along with it -
Sonic Released
Sonic is produced by Sega in response to Nintendo's Mario. The character "Sonic" was so popular that nintendo would go on to buy the rights to it to use in thier games. -
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty was a 2003 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward. It redefined and even made its own genre of first person shooters, which are some of the most popular selling games to this day. Since the first few CoD games were released the series has become both a competitive game played in many tournaments, and also quite repetitive, which it recieves a lot of criticism from reviewers -
Far Cry
Far Cry is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek. It was a genre redefining game because it was not simply a game about running and gunning to capturing an objective like mosot shooters before it were. Sure the multiplayer still was, however the single player integrated a fantastic story along side the shooting in a beutiful open world environment -
Skyrim
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an action role-playing video game that set a new standard for open world games and storytelling. Skyrim's story was not only extremly engadging but it was also very long, with gamers being challenged to finish it. The size of the map was also very impressive -
Star Citizen
Star Citizen is an upcoming space trading and combat simulator video game for Microsoft Windows and Linux. It is looking set to redefine the gaming indusrty once again with its huge map and insany well defined graphics and physics. This is the main reason that has been stated as to why this game will not be coming to consoles as they simply dont have the computing power. It is an indie developed game that was originally funded via kickstarter
