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Willy Higinbothman
Willy Higinbotham created the first computer video game. This game was called tennis for two. It simulates a game of tennis, where two players battle using a knob on the controller.
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Mouse in the Maze
Students at MIT created this game on their TX-0 computer. Users will first draw a light pen, then a mouse navigates the labyrinth searching for cheese.
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Computer Baseball
Computer programmer, John Burgeson, stays home from work at IBM one day. While he is at home, he starts developing the first computer baseball simulation. A month later he runs the first baseball simulation on an IBM computer.
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Odyssey
Ralph Baer patents his "brown box" or first interactive television game. Magnavox releases the Odyssey 4 years later, based on Baer's design.
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Atari vs. Magnavox
Atari’s electronic table tennis game Pong became a bonafide craze and Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey gaming console, sought legal action against Atari. Baer claimed that Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell had copied Magnavox’s version of electronic Ping-Pong. They settled an agreement that said, Atari could continue to sell Pong to arcades and on home consoles while paying licensing and royalty fees to Magnavox.
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Atari's Pong
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari, develop an arcade table tennis game. They called it Pong. It became so popular that it would jam with quarters.
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Maze Wars
Two decades before doom, Maze Wars introduces the first-person shooter. The game takes them into a labyrinth of passages made from wire-frame graphics.
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Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong is a series of video games featuring the adventures of an ape-like character called Donkey Kong. The game shows, Donkey Kong as the opponent in an industrial construction setting. This game was also the first appearance of Mario, pre-dating the well-known Super Mario Bros.The Donkey Kong character is highly recognizable and very popular; the franchise has sold over 40 million units worldwide.
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Pac-man vs. K.C. Munchkin
Pac-Man was very popular, and its manufacturers, Namco and Midway, were developing a home version port of it for the Atari 2600. But a year before Atari’s release, Magnavox and Philips Electronics debuted the video game K.C. Munchkin, which resembled Pac-Man’s gameplay, for the Philips Videopac home console. Atari sued Philips for copyright infringement and an appellate court found that Philips had copied Pac-Man.
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Nintendo Entertainment System
NES is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer and was later released in New York City in 1985, and throughout the U.S. It was the best-selling gaming console of its time.
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Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo. The game was the successor to the 1983 game Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros experienced immense commercial success and has received critical acclaim, with many crediting it alongside the NES as one of the key factors in reviving the video game industry after it had experienced a market crash in 1983.
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Madden NFL
Madden is an American football video game series developed by EA Tiburon for EA Sports. It is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, and has sold more than 120 million copies. Among the game's realistic features are sophisticated playbooks and player statistics, and voice commentary that allows players to hear the game as if it were a real TV broadcast. As of 2013 the franchise has generated over $4 billion in sales.
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game franchise created and produced by Sega. The protagonist of the series is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog named Sonic, whose peaceful life is often interrupted by the series' main antagonist, Doctor Eggman. The game was a success, spawned many sequels, and transformed Sega into a leading video game company during the 16-bit era in the early to mid 1990s.
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Video Game Ratings
To ensure that people are playing appropriate games for their age, the ESRB have created video game ratings. The ratings include, C, E, T, M, A, and RP. If you are not of age that the game says, then u cannot purchase it.
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Playstation
Playstation is a gaming brand that consists of four home video game consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines. It is created and owned by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The original launch of the Playstation was in Japan.
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Xbox
X-box is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft. It represents a series of video game consoles developed by Microsoft, with three consoles released in the sixth, seventh and eighth generations respectively. The brand was first introduced in the United States.
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Wii
The wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo in 2006. The Wii introduced the Wii Remote controller, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and which detects movement in three dimensions. The wii has sold 101 million units worldwide.
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Rock Band
Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts.Rock Band allows up to four players to simulate the performance of popular rock music songs by playing with controllers modeled after musical instruments. Players can play the lead guitar, bass guitar, and drums parts to songs with "instrument controllers", as well as sing through a USB microphone.
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Pokemon Go
Pokémon Go is a free-to-play, location-based augmented reality game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices. The game utilizes the player's mobile device's GPS ability to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear on the screen as if they were at the same real-world location as the player. Its overall download numbers had increased to over 750 million a year after release.
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Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is a computer-generated scenario that simulates a realistic experience. The immersive environment can be similar to the real world in order to create a lifelike experience grounded in reality or sci-fi. A person using virtual reality equipment is able to "look around" the artificial world, move around in it, and interact with virtual features or items.
