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  2. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    Pong was the first arcade video game to ever receive universal acclaim. Concurrently, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney had the idea of making a coin-operated system to run Spacewar! By 1971, the two had developed Computer Space with Nutting Associates, the first arcade video game. [7] Bushnell and Dabney struck out on their own and formed Atari.

  3. Early history of video games - Wikipedia

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    The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s ( Pong and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox ...

  4. Spasim - Wikipedia

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    Spasim. Spasim is a 32-player 3D networked space flight simulation game and first-person space shooter [1] developed by Jim Bowery for the PLATO computer network and released in March 1974. The game features four teams of eight players, each controlling a planetary system, where each player controls a spaceship in 3D space in first-person view.

  5. Elite (video game) - Wikipedia

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    The game's title derives from one of the player's goals of raising their combat rating to the exalted heights of "Elite". Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden-line removal. [4] It added graphics and twitch gameplay aspects to the genre established by the 1974 game Star Trader. [5]

  6. Battlezone (1980 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Battlezone. (1980 video game) Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat game released for arcades in November 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a tank which is attacked by other tanks and missiles. Using a small radar scanner along with the terrain window, the player can locate enemies and obstacles around them in the barren landscape.

  7. Maze (1973 video game) - Wikipedia

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    Maze, also known as Maze War, is a 3D multiplayer first-person shooter maze game originally developed in 1973 and expanded in 1974. The first version was developed by high school students Steve Colley, Greg Thompson, and Howard Palmer for the Imlac PDS-1 minicomputer during a school work/study program at the NASA Ames Research Center.

  8. History of video game consoles - Wikipedia

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    The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966. Handheld consoles originated from electro-mechanical games that used mechanical controls and light-emitting diodes (LED) as visual ...

  9. List of Nintendo 3DS games - Wikipedia

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    The international white Nintendo 3DS banner used on current and upcoming retail game covers (top). In Japan, the banner is black for Nintendo 3DS games rated by CERO as C or D (bottom). Nintendo Network-compatible games feature a small logo on top of the banner, but as of November 2014, the small Amiibo logo is dominantly featured instead, even ...