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	1972 in video gaming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Atari is founded by Nolan Bushnell and releases Al Alcorn's Pong arcade game.
		Hunt The Wumpus computer game is developed by Gregory Yob while at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
		Star Trek game is written by Don Daglow at Pomona College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1972_in_video_gaming (141 words)

	PONG-Story: Main page
		The video game history started in a strange and complicated way and it is important to avoid confusions with what happened in the 1950s and 1960s.
		A video game is defined as an appartus that displays games using RASTER VIDEO equipment: a television set, a monitor, etc. In the 1950s and 1960s, computers were not only exceedingly expensive, but used a technology that could not allow integrating them into a video game system.
		The video game concept was born, but could not be implemented since the boss refused the idea.
	www.pong-story.com /intro.htm (1181 words)

	Game Studies - Creative Player Actions in FPS Online Video Games: Playing Counter-Strike
		Within the game console function, log files are easily generated and are most often used by players to check their kill/death ratios and to examine game action.
		Play is not just "playing the game," but "playing with the rules of the game" and is best shown in the diversity of talk, the creative uses of such talk and player behavior within the game, plus the modifications of game technical features.
		Through the playing of the game and negotiating conflicts one learns the meaning of the game, the meaning of "having fun." And that "having fun," is bound up with creative actions taken to enhance the pleasure of the game.
	www.gamestudies.org /0202/wright (4326 words)

	Patent 5324035: Video gaming system with fixed pool of winning plays and global pool access
		The gaming system network defined in claim 9, wherein the central game processor comprises means for supplying a new finite pool of game plays to the master processing unit upon exhaustion of each finite pool of game play records stored at the memory device.
		The gaming system network defined in claim 9, wherein the central game processor comprises means for maintaining a record of the number of game plays remaining in each finite pool of game plays and the number of winning and losing play records remaining in each finite pool of game plays.
		Video games of chance, such as video poker or video fl jack, are examples of such video gambling machines.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5324035.html (13882 words)

	Video gaming industry merits serious attention for luring leisure dollars - PittsburghLIVE.com
		From the first video game unit, the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, video game consoles and related software have spawned a huge industry -- so big that there now are colleges and technical schools offering majors in video game development and two national retailers dedicated to gaming.
		Although video game development can cost millions per title, their development costs pale in comparison to the hundreds of millions for some cinematic extravaganzas, which makes the gaming business much more profitable than movies.
		Video games are not the Rodney Dangerfield of entertainment they once were.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/trib/newssummary/s_312820.html (763 words)

	PONG-Story : Magnavox Odyssey - the first video game system -
		Once George had taken the final design of the game unit and antenna switch-box to the FCC labs in Washington and passed their tests, (another thing that millions of video game units would be subjected to in the incoming years), Odyssey went into production at the Tennessee plant.
		Magnavox also shipped their dealers ten additional games available separately, or in a pack of six (as six games were originally planned and another four were released later in 1973).
		After founding Atari on 27th June 1972, Bushnell and Alan Alcorn (his first employee) designed the famous prototype of their PONG arcade machine, which was placed on trial in a local bar called Andy Capp's Cavern in Sunnyvale.
	www.pong-story.com /odyssey.htm (3763 words)

	Locus Online: Lucius Cook on Games
		Science fiction in electronic games is nothing new; many of the arcade games of the medium's "Golden Age" (1977-84), such as Space Invaders, Asteroids, Defender, and Missile Command, utilize familiar scenarios such as alien invasions or global thermonuclear war as a backdrop.
		was the first video game to capture widespread attention within the burgeoning programmer community of the mid-1960s.
		Computer games had arrived at last, but in the process had lost their genre roots; Doom's forebears weren't Smith or Tolkien, but Aliens and Evil Dead, and the games that followed in its wake, like Duke Nukem, Quake, and Unreal, were less concerned with storytelling than arresting visuals.
	locusmag.com /2004/Reviews/12_Cook_On_Gaming.html (2438 words)

	WNUR Sports: Sports Business Beat: The Evolution of Sports Video Gaming 1/22/00
		At the time, numerous video game operations were competing hard against each other, hoping to become as much of a household staple as television.
		Intellivision was also the first video game system to utilize an endorsement, as the face of sportswriter George Plimpton graced the magazine ads for Intellivision's games.
		The video game companies of today are trying to give their buyers as much power as they can handle.
	www.wnur.org /sports/business/sbbt012200.html (943 words)

	Gaming Universe Forums - Gameheadz video game history documentary tonight
		Apparently some video game documentary will be on TLC tonight at 10pm est.
		Since the first Pong machine was unveiled thirty years ago, computer games have evolved at an extraordinary pace to become the world's largest entertainment industry after music.This film reveals moments in computer game history, and points to the future.
		A highlight for game fans in particular is Miyamoto performing the theme tune to Super Mario Bros. on his guitar.
	forums.thegaminguniverse.com /showthread.php?t=4697 (631 words)

	Bumm 13's Classic Video Gaming Page
		In 1972, Nolan Bushnell, the now-famous founder of Atari, created the first coin-operated video game, called "Pong." Unlike the Odyssey, Pong could actually keep score on screen.
		Basically, Pong was a colorless ping-pong game with two dots for players, a line representing the net, and a dot for the ball.
		The first actual cartridge-based video game system was the Fairchild Channel F, released in 1976.
	landru.i-link-2.net /jtrees/history1.htm (558 words)

	Mediajonez.com: Retro Techno - 30 Years of Video Gaming Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		All this is possible through the marvel of video games, and ever since 1972 we've been able to create electronic competitions in front of a crowd of cheering friends.
		In 1977, home video games as we know them were born with the introduction of the Atari VCS.
		Games are still being released and marketed, even in the light of a sucessor, the PS2.
	www.mediajonez.com /tech/retrotechno0202.html (3045 words)

	Retrogaming Roundtable :: View topic - The Greatest Era in video gaming? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In that time, there was no internet, so when a new game hit the shelve for a console or a new arcade arrive at the local amusement center, it was always a new adventure.
		Even VR and holography gaming are still going to be similar enough to videogaming that they probably won't feel as fresh as they should.
		While it can be said that the games that were released are based on the games of the "Atari" era, they were improved on with so much style that you could call it brand new.
	www.digitpress.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=6416&start=25 (1619 words)

	Retro look at expensive computer gaming systems - Joystiq - www.joystiq.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		With all the buzz about Gamestop’s super stupid Xbox 360 game bundles there’s been a lot of speculation that the packages are the most expensive in the history of video games.
		Game developers are still trying to fully utilise the hardware of their chosen platform, whilst creating bigger and more diverse game worlds all the time keeping the game fun and active!
		It was not an essay on the definition of a gaming unit, nor is it a definitive work on the history of gaming costs.
	www.joystiq.com /entry/1234000147056329 (5931 words)

	Cheats Diablo 2
		Join this game with the other computer and you will be able to copy items you already have by trading with yourself.
		If you look at the text box it will say "Gem Activated" Then start a game or join one and you will find at least one Gem shrine and if you have a Gem in your inventory it upgrades it.
		All your gold may not appear (this obviously depends on whether you were carrying any), it may still be lying near where you died.
	www.kl-games.com /index1.html (526 words)

	A Brief History of Home Video Games
		America was introduced to the first home video game system on a Sunday night television broadcast hosted by Frank Sinatra.
		However, a system to play video games in the privacy of your own home had never been seen before.
		Unlike Baer's Odyssey, which had twelve games built in, separate controllers, and graphic overlays, Atari Pong was considered concise by the video game consumer.
	www.geekcomix.com /vgh/first (297 words)

	AceGamez News - Hot off the gaming presses! Computer and video gaming news
		Rockstar Games is pleased to announce Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Special Edition for the PlayStation®2 which will include on DVD The Introduction and Rockstar's debut documentary film, Sunday Driver.
		In Los Santos, a drive-by shooting in Grove Street Family's territory ignites a series of events to be further explored in the game.
		Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the most admired and popular video games in the world.
	www.acegamez.co.uk /news03.htm (388 words)

	Bumm 13's Classic Video Gaming Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Generally, classic video games are any made for game consoles made from about 1972 to 1986.
		I'm not as current with the classic gaming scene as I once was, so I'll just leave this site up as a reference on the Internet.
		Classic Video Game Cartridge Scan of the Week
	landru.i-link-2.net /jtrees/games.htm (105 words)

	Video Gaming, Education and Digital Learning Technologies: Relevance and Opportunities - References
		[DTI report] "The UK Games Industry and Higher Education," DTI report into links between video game companies and academic departments, April 2001.
		[Gamerland] Educational games for games consoles of the last few decades.
		[Techwatch] (forthcoming) John Kirriemuir, "The relevance of gaming and gaming consoles to the Higher and Further Education learning experience," JISC Techwatch report.
	www.dlib.org /dlib/february02/kirriemuir/kirriemuir-references.html (719 words)

	Digiplay Initiative
		At Sanders Associates, Ralph Baer invents a video game in which two dots chase each other around a screen. The US government, seeking to develop training tools for the military rather than consumer electronics, funds the project as 'Top Secret'.
		Japanese pachinko company, Taito, release the arcade game Space Invaders the first game to feature animated characters and display "High Scores". In the USA it is distributed by Midway Games.
		Commodore releases Commodore 64 computer, which also serves as a powerful video games machine. It is the start of the 1984 gaming market collapse.
	www.digiplay.org.uk /timeline.php (1846 words)

	Ars Technica: The Stage of the Game - Page 1 - (8/2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Computer games began with a simple problem, and this problem had to be solved by a geek.
		It had...a cathode ray tube display...Here was this display that could do all sorts of good things! So we started talking about it, figuring what would be interesting displays. We decided that probably you could make a two-Dimensional maneuvering sort of thing, and decided that naturally the obvious thing to do was spaceships.
		Computer games continued to be developed in the institutional setting after Spacewar!'s conception. Games like Hunt the Wumpus, Adventure, and Zork, however, moved away from the graphical display used in Spacewar!
	arstechnica.com /reviews/01q3/gaminghistory/ghistory-1.html (341 words)

	decline of video gaming - infos
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		The year-over-year decline, NPD said, was driven by a 27 percent decline in console...
	www.angelfire.com /alt2/ang3/10/decline-of-video-gaming.html (202 words)

	RedNova News - Sci-Fi & Gaming - Duvall, Caan in 'Godfather' Video Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		No, the pair find anything and everything funny, especially the fact that they're reprising their memorable roles for "The Godfather" video game.
		The old friends leisurely banter on a day when a multitude of press is probing them for soundbites about the 1972 film and the recently announced video game, a subject they know little about.
		The game is only another notch in the actor's coinciding resumes.
	www.rednova.com /news/display?id=126840 (618 words)

	GameSHOUT - Video Games Community for PC Xbox 360 PS2 PlayStation 3 Nintendo Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gearbox Software's original games on next generation consoles and PC to use Unreal Engine 3 exclusively.
		Sequel to the critically acclaimed squad-based real-time tactical combat game, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers takes the brand's innovative and authentic military gaming experience to the next level with new features in every aspect of the game.
		Dark Sector is a fast-action game that blends finesse and brutality into a great Next Generation game.
	www.halfliferadio.com (748 words)

	Game - Electronic Gaming Video Game Magazine July 2003, Game.
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	www.bestelectronicvideogames.com /Games/Game (558 words)

	Monstergamer Video Gaming Forums - MG Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		5)Subject: This is a tough choice, but...video games (seriously, it's a hard choice.
		12)What are your long-term goals (within your lifetime): Start a family, work in video game development, learn the art of Japanese sword-fighting (kendo or iaido), get a katana and wakizashi set, learn how to use said swords together in combat, and prove the existence of dragons
		12)What are your long-term goals (within your lifetime): Get a steady job and always have fun with gaming or acting.
	www.monstergamer.net /vb/general_discussion/5948-mg_profiles.html (2119 words)

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