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Bertie The Brain
Bertie the Brain was the very first computer game to ever be made, it played tic-tac-toe and had multiple difficulty levels. After two weeks, it was disassembled. http://spacing.ca/toronto/2014/08/13/meet-bertie-brain-worlds-first-arcade-game-built-toronto/
here's some Bertie for your brain -
Computer Space
The first arcade system made was called "Computer Space"
An incredibly basic game where you shoot down invaders with missiles
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7381
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Magnavox odyssey
The first home video game console was the magnavox odyssey, it was bundled with some plastic overlays, paper money, dice and chips, and games were played by interacting with two controllers that moved 1-3 dots on the screen
http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm
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Microvision
The Microvision was the the first handheld console to come out, and it played black and white games on a tiny screen with interchangeable batteries and ROM cartridges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision
for being, allegedly, untrusworthy, Wikipedia sure has the most information on a topic -
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Video Games were around i guess
yeh don't tell anyone but i was forced to make this timeline
www.google.com
here, you can do some research yourself -
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The Video Game crash of 1983
In 1983, the video game industry was doing great with revenues exceeding $3.2 billion. But, because of rampant third party developers, hastily and shoddily made games, inflation, and overwhelming amount of competition.
It did, however, pave the way for Nintendo to becoming a household name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983
Factual inaccuracies may be included -
Tetris
Tetris was made by the Russians in order to keep the US from doing any actual work because of how addictive it was.
It was the highest selling video game ever at about 495 million units sold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
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The Console Wars
A brutal war of attrition and sales numbers. This was a battle between the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Nintendo won and Sega slowly faded into obscurity. Then Sony (like the tricky bastards they are) released the PlayStation® and revolutionized the gaming industry with its newfangled 3D and disc based system and annihilated the Super Nintendo -
Suprise, it's Tetris again
Not only was Tetris on just about every single platform ever, it was the first phone game to be made. it was on the Hagenuk MT-2000
http://www.phonearena.com/news/This-was-the-worlds-first-cell-phone-with-a-game-loaded-on-it_id62920 -
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
LoZ: OoT is considered, by metacritic, wikipedia, and about 50 other pieces of media, to be the best video game of all time
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/all/filtered
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PS2
The Console with the most amount of units sold was the PS2 at over 155 million consoles sold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2
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Console Wars 2.0
The reckoning of the ages. A second trifle, this time between Microsoft's DirectX Box(s), Sony's Playstation(s), and the gamecube/Wii(U) (to a lesser extent) This "battle" is still ongoing with PC laughing at them all from its high horse.
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Wii-Sports
The most amount of games sold on a single platform was Wii-sports at 82.69 million copies distributed. This is because every single Wii was bundled with Wii-Sports and the Wii was an incredibly popular console.
http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/1OTtO06SP7M52gi5m8pD6CnahbW8CzxE
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On-live
The first micro-console to be released was "On-live"a small black box that you plug into your platform. It allowed users to rent video games without installing them and allowed them to play games even if their platform couldn't handle it. This works because the On-live servers would download them and send, basically, a live stream of the game to the renter.
Their company has since been acquired and discontinued by Sony but you can still check them out I guess
http://onlive.com/
