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The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online. [1] The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on the US-based site Twitch, before growing to YouTube, Facebook, China-based sites Huya Live, DouYu, and Bilibili, and other services.
The highest selling arcade game of the year is F-1. 1977 – The Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) is released as the first widely popular home video game console. [5] 1978 – Space Invaders is released, popularizing the medium and beginning the golden age of arcade video games. [6]
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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 ...
State of Play broadcasts vary in length and content but generally feature a mix of announcements, including new game reveals, gameplay footage, updates on previously announced titles, and occasionally hardware announcements. They are available to watch on video sharing and live-streaming platforms such as YouTube and Twitch.
Atari Inc. releases Night Driver, an early example of a first-person perspective racing video game. Atari releases Breakout, which inspires a number of Breakout clones. Exidy releases Death Race. It was the first video game to inspire protest and cause panic. [9] Gremlin releases Blockade, the first of what become known as snake games.
This page indexes lists of games (board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games) by their years of release. For video games, see List of years in video games . 1970s