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  2. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...

  3. Category : Video games developed in the United States

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    Aether (video game) The Aethra Chronicles; Aetolia (video game) Africa Trail; Afro Samurai 2; After Burner: Black Falcon; Afterlife (video game) Afterparty (video game) Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None; Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun; Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express; Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (2009 video game ...

  4. List of historical video games - Wikipedia

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    The historical video game belongs to a video game genre in which stories are based upon historical events, environments, or people. Some historical video games are simulators, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event, civilization or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow.

  5. History of games - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in 1971, video arcade games began to be offered to the public for play. The first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released in 1972. [86] [87] The golden age of arcade video games began in 1978 and continued through to the mid-1980s.

  6. Steve Russell (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    He invented the continuation to solve a double recursion problem for one of the users of his Lisp implementation. [ 3 ] In 1962, Russell created and designed Spacewar! , with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working on a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 minicomputer.

  7. Early history of video games - Wikipedia

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    The history of video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering many inventions and developments. Video gaming reached mainstream popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.

  8. Category:Video games by country of developer - Wikipedia

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    Video games developed in the United States (107 C, 8,640 P) Video games developed in Uruguay (3 P) V. Video games developed in Venezuela (5 P)

  9. Wikipedia : Good topics/Early history of video games

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    The history of video games spans a period of time between the invention of the first electronic games and today, covering a long period of invention and changes. Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.