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Willy Higinbotham invented the first video game, much like table tennis
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Steve Russell, a Student at MIT hacked a computer and created Space Wars
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Computer Space became the first video arcade game
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Atari, with help from Sears Roebuck, released 150,000 unitsof their game pong
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Atari introduces its first home video system called the Video Computer System which later becomes known as the Atari 2600
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Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel found the first video-game magazine, Electronic Games.
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Atari releases the new Atari 5200 to compete with Coleco's Colecovision
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The popular gameTetris is developed by a Russian, Alex Pajitnov
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Nintendo releases the handheld Game Boy for $109.
Atari enters the handheld market with the Lynx, a color handheld console retailing for $149
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Super NES is released in the U.S. by Nintendo for $249.95
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In Japan the Sega Saturn and the Sony PlayStation make their debut.
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The PlayStation was brought to the U.S. and the console was sold for $299.
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Sony's PlayStation 2 launches in the U.S. for $299.99 and is sold out by the morning
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Nintendo releases the Nintendo DS witch was a portable system with two screens, one of which is a touch screen
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Sony also produced the Playstation 3, a very sophisticated and expensive game system
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Fairey allegedly based the design of a edited image of Obama was revealed as one shot by AP freelancer Mannie Garcia so the owner decided to sue and won half of the profits made from the poster -
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Richard Prince is a well known artist who transforms the work of others to create new meaning in his own work. Prince appropriated 41 images originally by French photographer Patrick Cariou. -
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Both Sony and Microsoft release new gaming platforms this year. The PS4 and the Xbox One. Offering social connection through next generation cooperative and competitive multiplayer play, these systems offer amazing graphics and speed.
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Brief history of video games
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