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	1974 in video gaming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also history of computer and video games.
		Atari acquires Kee Games as a "marketing ploy." Atari will continue to use the "Kee Games" title as a brand name until 1978.
		The earliest first-person shooter video games are released:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1974_in_video_gaming (351 words)

	History of Computing: Videogames Index
		Though the history of video games is a subsection of the history of computing, it is important to recognize how integrated this entertainment medium is to the evolution of computing hardware and software.
		Since a video game is a sensory experience, the sound, the visual elements, and the interface that the player uses to interact witht the game cannot be divorced from the programmed logic and instruction set that provides the experience.
		However, in order to document a history pertaining to the evolution of video games, it is important to recognize the myriad influences that have the most significant relevance to the continued growth of this entertainment medium.
	www.thocp.net /software/games/games.htm (439 words)

	Let the Games Begin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Games can also be an effective way of reaching students who haven't responded to conventional teaching methods, and they can get gifted students to apply critical-thinking, problem-solving, and other higher-level skills to subjects they already know.
		Instead of developing elaborate games for kids to play in the classroom, some pioneering teachers and researchers have found that having students design their own games is a great way to reinforce a lesson or connect it to other skills and ideas.
		Video games in the classroom may score points with some educators and researchers, but not everyone is cheering.
	www.edutopia.org /magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1268&issue=apr_05 (2289 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.
		Since it did not generate video signals which were then sent to a raster scan display such as an ordinary TV set or monitor, it was not a video game.
	www.pong-story.com /intro.htm (1463 words)

	The History of Electric Game Consoles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A home video game usually has a computerized control unit, often with a variety of games stored on floppy disk, hard disk, compact disc, or a special game cartridge.
		The control unit may be a proprietary device intended especially for video games, or it may be a personal computer or other computerized device used for other purposes as well.
		Sports games such as football, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey became particularly popular from the late 1980s as established professional teams and players lent their names to video versions of their sports.
	members.tripod.com /hd_tv (547 words)

	Video Game History
		Video games first big debut came about with the invention of [Pong] in 1974.
		The game is deceptively simple, with only a four-position joystick needed to guide 'pac-man' around the maze, but with each successive screen the ghosts get faster and their time of blue-invulneribility less.
		Game designer George Gomez was an avowed fan of the British secret agent with a license to kill, and Spy Hunter allowed him (and the rest of the world) to live out a dangerous, Bond-esque mission over land and sea.
	www.spyhunter007.com /spy_video_game_history.htm (1457 words)

	Category:1974 computer and video games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category lists Computer and video games published in 1974.
		1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 ⇒ →
		Pages in category "1974 computer and video games"
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:1974_computer_and_video_games (91 words)

	TIME Magazine: Video Games Archive Collection
		Modern video games, a $12 billion industry in 2004, left the arcade behind with their realistic graphics and sound.
		It may be for this reason that they are so likely to form warm little subcultures, or termite nests, within the larger society, complete with their own lingo, legends, heroes, magazines, newspapers and meetings of the clan.
		As video games have become a regular part of kids' daily lives--a recent survey by Michigan State University found that eighth-grade boys play them on average 23 hr.
	www.time.com /time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_video_games,00.shtml (889 words)

	History of Computing: Video games - Golden Age
		It is during this era that Video games begin to make their mark on society and culture.
		Star Wars is one of the most impressive vector graphic games ever released and the multi-color monitors and the sense of fluid first-person flying make it a delight to play and to watch.
		The video game crash has begun, but from its ashes the 8-bit machines will usher in the Modern Age of video games.
	www.thocp.net /software/games/golden_age.htm (4700 words)

	Video Slot Machines : WMS Gaming
		WMS Gaming is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and since 1998 have been solely dedicated to innovative new slot machines.
		The most popular video slot game in Australia comes in a variety of formats and includes the chance to win a re-trigger of 15 free games where all wins are tripled.
		The first of a series of new games that give you the option of betting on between one and a massive fifty lines per game.
	www.videoslotmachines.com /wms (251 words)

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		He admitted that he reached his conclusion that the machines were possibly illegal before he played the gaming machines and that his conclusion that the games might be illegal did not change after he played the games.
		He also stated that unlike the gaming machines approved for use in Nevada, New Jersey, or Mississippi, the machines he found in Alabama (which he referred to as "gray-area" or "gray-market" machines) are not random in their operation.
		1974), a plaintiff class alleged that numerous hotel chains and individual hotels had engaged in a conspiracy and had violated federal antitrust laws by adding telephone surcharges to their room rates.
	www.wallacejordan.com /decisions/Opinions2003/1012411.htm (8846 words)

	Open Directory - Games:Video Games:Console Platforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sites devoted to specific games should be submitted under that genre (listed in Games: Video Games).
		Video game console system that is actually a PC optimized to play PC Games.
		The Indrema video game console uses the Linux operating system, and is being promoted as an all-in-one home entertainment system.
	dmoz.org /Games/Video_Games/Console_Platforms/desc.html (3001 words)

	History of Video Games. A Timeline
		Video game history reaches back to games using early computers, and progresses forward into who knows what.
		Tetris is produced for the Game Boy in Russia.
		The video game timeline begins to reveal how video gaming has become a part of our culture, and video game history will continue to be created over the next years.
	www.adigitaldreamer.com /articles/history-of-video-games.htm (315 words)

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		Although video game consoles may be powered by similar CPU chips as desktop computers, the hardware is under the entire control of their respective manufacturers, and the software is specifically geared to the machine's capabilities.
		The first video gaming system was made in 1972 and was the magnavox odyssey.
		Video game system have taken a lot of heat due to the games that are played by them.
	www.bsu.edu /web/MJUMINSKI/techno.html (905 words)

	Pong Video Game History - Invention of the Pong Video Game
		When the video game market crashed in 1983-84, Atari was left with vast quantities of unsellable software and no new technology to fall back on.
		In this rollicking, mammoth history of video games from pinball to Pong to Playstation II Kent, a technology journalist and self-professed video game addict, covers almost every conceivable aspect of the industry, from the technological leaps that made the games possible to the corporate power struggles that won (and lost) billions of dollars.
		Bushnell was granted patents on some of the basic technologies for many of the early video games developed and is also the inventor or co-inventor of numerous worldwide patents in various other fields and industries.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/pong.htm (1321 words)

	DP Royal Archives - Video Game Timeline
		Sharp Image's Star Fire becomes not only the first arcade game to feature a cockpit-style cabinet (there is also a stand-up style cabinet), but perhaps more importantly it is the first arcade game that allowed you to enter your initials for a high score, beating Atari's Asteroids the the punch by mere months..
		Stern's Berzerk becomes the first game to be blamed for someone's death when in January 1981, 19 year old Jeff Dailey died of a massive heart attack while playing the game.
		It was a game console based on the FM Towns computer they released in 1989.
	www.digitpress.com /archives/timeline.htm (2386 words)

	GameSpy:
		In January 1974, a group of friends in a Wisconsin basement sent out a small box with three beige-colored books inside.
		It was the very first edition of Dungeons & Dragons, a brand-new type of game without boards or set goals in which all the action took place in the players' minds.
		Video: Feargus Urquhart talks about developing the sequel in the NWN franchise.
	pc.gamespy.com /articles/538/538848p1.html (537 words)

	Game Reviews - AOL Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Now Gotham Games has released a driving-and-shooting game that evokes the general style of the show.
		The gameplay isn't terribly deep, and the story mode isn't very long, but the game is still mildly enjoyable.
		Every mission puts you on a kind of a clock, though it actually reflects your "viewer rating," which is one of the game's many self-aware nods to its television roots.
	videogames.aol.com /videogame/starsky-and-hutch/427/game-reviews (843 words)

	Amazon.com: ICO: Computer & Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Unlike games like "Myst", where puzzles are just put there with no purpose other than to be solved, the castle is a living and breathing puzzle that is there for a purpose.
		In the age of GTA, it seems like almost every video game tries to cram in as much content as possible, but in most cases this added content is a bore to play and is only there to increase game length.
		In most video games, there's an obvious button you need to stand on, or lever you've got to throw, but in ICO, it feels like you're really exploiting loopholes in the castle's structure.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004YUWA?v=glance (2861 words)

	Bumm 13's Classic Video Gaming Page
		The Odyssey also contained various sheets for recording game scores and other accessories that gave it a "board game feel." This one's extremely rare, especially with all its accessories.
		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)

	The Escapist - Our Games Are Built On Paper
		IN THE BEGINNING - which is to say, 1974 - there were E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, two tabletop miniatures gamers in Wisconsin who begat Dungeons & Dragons.
		And D&D begat an orc-horde of paper-and-dice imitators and emulators.
		Young Richard Garriott adapted elements of his campaign in his computer games Akalabeth and Ultima I, and earned his first million dollars before he turned 18.
	www.escapistmagazine.com /issue/9/18 (153 words)

	Giantology: Giant Creature Uncovered by Tsunami! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		If there were fossils as the video claims one would think that the reporter would not blunder with such facts as the 'archaeologists' digging up the bones when in all likelyhood it should be paleontologists.
		Also, the video looks like it was shot through a filter or had an effect applied in post (the obvious orange cast to the sky).
		Not only do the video qualities suggested by the previous comments give a hint as to its rendering, from a geological standpoint, it would be impossible to preserve something such as large as this in one piece in such a high energy, transition environment.
	giantology.typepad.com /giantology/2005/10/giant_creature_.html (5922 words)

	PONG-Story - Atari PONG - Home systems
		Depending on the game selected, the ball bounces on two bumpers (pinball games), or on a pad that moves horizontally (pinpaddle games), or just like in breakout.
		The only difference between the two variants of this one was the way the bricks were destroyed: either the ball bounced on the first brick destroyed, or it continued destroying the bricks without bouncing until an edge of the screen (or the paddle) was reached.
		The games could be played by one, two or four players, the number of players being set by a switch and the number of extra pads connected to the system.
	www.pong-story.com /atpong2.htm (1278 words)

	The Lot - Video Lottery - Welcome To RILOT
		Video Lottery is offered right here in the Ocean State.
		Lincoln has a wide selection of video slot games to include reel games with various line options, video poker, video keno, fljack, and wide area video progressive Jumbo Jackpot machines.
		Newport Grand has a wide selection of video slot games to include reel games with various line options, video poker, video keno, fljack, and wide area video progressive Jumbo Jackpot machines.
	www.rilot.com /video.asp (423 words)

	Inventory: 11 Of Video Gaming's Strangest Moments \| The A.V. Club
		Back in the early days of Atari, game designers never got credit for their work—so some of them would slip their names in via Easter eggs, such as the famous one in the classic Adventure.
		Jane Pinckard of Game Girl Advance blogged that she was so impressed by the trance vibrator's rhythmic thumping that she stuck it down her pants.
		But one of the game's strangest features comes when you misbehave—by cheating other players, hacking the server, or whatever—and the administrators decide to punish you.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/48769 (1118 words)

	The Global Gaming League Unveils Version 3 of GGL.com
		Gamers can also create, recruit, communicate and manage their rosters with new powerful team management tools, and can spend credits they earn from playing in official league matches to book time on free practice servers, which are provided by GGL's server partner, Art of War Central (For more info, see: www.artofwarcentral.com).
		The Global Gaming League(TM) is the leading competitive video gaming league for gamers of every skill level across all platforms and games.
		It is an unbiased governing body that stages high-quality online video gaming competitions through its proprietary website, and live competitions via events throughout the country.
	www.dreamstation.cc /news/video_games/id5255 (531 words)

	JS Online:Death of a game addict
		She has a list of names her son scrawled while playing the game: "Phargun." "Occuler." "Cybernine." But Woolley is not sure if they are names of online friends, places he explored in the game or treasures his character may have captured in quests.
		After playing the game for 36 hours straight, he had a psychotic break because of sleep deprivation, Parker said.
		Cox played about 40 hours a week at the height of her gaming but now plays only a couple of times a week.
	www.jsonline.com /news/state/mar02/31536.asp (1630 words)

	PROGRAMMABLE CONSOLES
		Appairently compatible with the Dick Smith Wizzard, although the cartridges are slightly larger and a panel has to removed to play them.
		Only two games were ever released for the Halcyon, the packin game "Thayer’s Quest" and the later released "Raiders vs. Chargers".
		An add on peripheral for the Super Famicom that allowed users to download games from a satellite and save them to a RAM cartridge.
	www.geocities.com /decpdp1/consoles.html (614 words)

	» The History of Video Gaming \| Personal Website of Dan Crouch
		The Dot Eaters chronicles the history of video games with detailed behind the scene’s info, screenshots and sounds, and more.
		But what the Commodore 64 was really good for was games (especially since most of the C64 community actively pirated everything under the sun).
		Even if the premise of the game wasn’t that intriguing, you ended up playing it anyway because it was superior to the rest.
	tjrubley.com /2006/02/the-history-of-video-gaming (653 words)

	eBay - Video Game System: Sega Game Gear - Handheld gaming system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Those are games that SEGA never released specifically for the GG so by all means pick one up with the converter if you like those old games.
		Sega Game Gear has a wide range of games available and the games can easily be bought from eBay at very competitive price, as low as $2 (for new games).
		In summary, if you are interested to own one of the best hand held game system, this is the one that you must consider.
	product.ebay.com /Sega-Game-Gear-Handheld-game-system_W0QQfvcsZ1452QQsoprZ43559124 (1091 words)

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