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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 ...
Gerald Anderson Lawson (December 1, 1940 – April 9, 2011) was an American electronic engineer.Besides being one of the first African-American computer engineers in Silicon Valley, Lawson was also known for his work in designing the Fairchild Channel F video game console, leading the team that refined ROM cartridges for durable use as commercial video game cartridges.
Peppermint Crisp is a milk chocolate bar filled with a multitude of thin cylinders of mint-flavoured 'cracknel' (which is a brittle crystalline/sugar concoction extruded in fine hollow tubes). [1] Invented in South Africa by Wilson- Rowntree in the 1960s, it was eventually bought out and manufactured by Nestlé South Africa.
A turn-based grand strategy video game that allows players to build and lead a nation through an alternate history from Stone Age to Singularity Age. Millennia (video game) 2024: 10,000 BC – 2100s AD: A 4X turn-based strategy video game in which players lead their nation through 10 different ages, from Age of Stone to Age of Transcendence.
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.
Mabel Addis Mergardt (21 May 1912 – 13 August 2004) was an American writer, teacher and the first video game writer. She designed The Sumerian Game, programmed by William McKay, for the IBM 7090 in 1964, which inspired other kingdom management games such as Hamurabi from the early 1970s.
Pac-Man is considered by many to be one of the most influential video games of all time. [125] [126] [127] The game established the maze chase game genre, [125] was the first video game to make use of power-ups, [128] and the individual ghosts have deterministic artificial intelligence (AI) that reacts to player actions. [129]
PopCap Games, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Seattle, and a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. [3] The company was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka. Originally founded under the name "Sexy Action Cool" , their first title was a strip poker game that served as a revenue stream for future titles. [ 4 ]