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	Video Games in the 80's
		In 1982 the illustrious and seemingly endlessly profitable video game industry began a downward facing slump and eventually came to a screeching halt and crashed due to a few major factors, none of them big enough on their own to do more than minimal damage, but together proved to be fatal.
		Due to the huge success of the video game industry early on it became a target for money hungry companies who wanted to exploited the industry in order to profit from not only the video game industry but from their own companies using the video game they created as somewhat of an advertising tool.
		So in light of this new development video game systems were left behind and by 1984 sales had plummeted to the point of almost being non existent and this is the reason we had the great crash of 1982-84.
	www.msu.edu /~schweiz5/videogamerebirthinthe80's.html (1005 words)

	Half-Real: A Dictionary of Video Game Theory
		In a video game, the state of the game is kept in the RAM of the computer.
		Games are characterized by the fact that the activity in itself is mostly harmless, but that the outcome of the game can be negotiated to lead more serious consequences (such as the exchange of money).
		The outcome of a game is quantifiable, meaning that it is meant to be clear whether the outcome was one or another; who won the game (Salen and Zimmerman 2004, 96).
	www.half-real.net /dictionary (3704 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)

	LIFE magazine, January 1983 spread @ Classic Arcade Gaming (dot com)
		Video Game V.I.P. Most CAGDC players have heard of, and perhaps seen, the famous LIFE magazine spread that featured a lot of well-known early 1980's gamers, gathered in front of the famous Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa.
		The January 1983 issue was the special "Year in Pictures" issue for 1982, and featured the classic 'gamers in the street' photo, taken early in the morning on Sunday, November 7, 1982.
		A score must be verified by a "letter of proof" from the manager of the arcade where the game was played, and new stars can be born at any moment.
	www.classicarcadegaming.com /contests/Nov1982/life.htm (428 words)

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		Pitfall was a groundbreaking game for its time and pushed the limited hardware of the Atari 2600 to its limits.
		The significant new game play element involved eating a mushroom to grow to twice the size, which enabled the player to not only bump but destroy certain blocks, as well as being able to absorb an extra hit from a monster without dying.
		The game featured large, richly textured levels with an unbelievably long draw distance, so a player could stand on a high point and see parts of the level that were far off near the horizon.
	arstechnica.com /articles/paedia/gaming-evolution.ars/10 (793 words)

	Classic Gaming at the American Museum of the Moving Image - Gaming Age
		Some of the most popular games of the era--sure to induce nostalgia in those who were teenagers between 1974 and 1984, and provide a history lesson to those who have come of age in the era of the Game Boy and the Playstation--are resurrected in BLIP.
		The playable games offered in BLIP date from the late 1970s to the mid '80s, when the video arcade game infiltrated popular culture beginning with the release of dozens of space-battle games such as Space Invaders and Asteroids.
		The latter game attracted not only Space Invaders pros but also businesspeople on lunch breaks and was so popular that arcade operators had to install larger coin boxes to hold all the quarters collected.
	www.gaming-age.com /news/2004/2/5-19 (656 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)

	PSPredecessors from 1UP.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Currently, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and DS control almost 100 percent of the portable game market, and the likes of Mario and Pokémon have enjoyed a near-monopoly for more than 15 years.
		Portable gaming has been around nearly 30 years, and the successes and failures over the past three decades offer plenty of lessons for anyone aspiring to throw their hat into the handheld ring.
		Games like Match of the Millennium and Metal Slug: 2nd Mission captured the feel of the NeoGeo games that inspired them, but were carefully redesigned to work within the limits of the portable format—a lesson everyone could do well to imitate.
	www.1up.com /do/feature?cId=3125030 (1628 words)

	TI-99/4A Videogame House - MBX Expansion System
		Eventually it was decided to transform Milton Bradley's gaming system to an add-on for the TI-99/4A, most likely due to the fact that MB had earlier developed the Gamevision line of video games for the 99/4A and also created the graphics chip used inside of the TI system.
		The MBX system itself provides the video game player with some truly unique gaming options, many of which were not available to the public at the time of its release.
		After saying all of the displayed words, the game will begin with a little circle in the corner of the screen (signifying that the voice command has been activated) and that plain spoken English can be used to control your player in the video game.
	www.videogamehouse.net /mbx.html (3160 words)

	Are you a videogame superstar? - Gaming Age
		As they enter into their twentieth year of record keeping for the video game industry, Twin Galaxies has launched a global campaign to identify the world's greatest computer gamers for all titles, genres and game platforms, by soliciting the help of fans and industry players across the globe to provide record-breaking scores and achievements.
		Also, the book that has been settling the bets in the world of video games for years is expanding to accommodate the many world records achieved by top players on the N-64, PSX/PS2 and Dreamcast platforms, not to mention the ever-popular titles found in the world's arcades.
		Its mission is to transform electronic gaming into a recognized sport by building upon a rich tradition of champions and their world records.
	www.gaming-age.com /news/2001/2/8-38 (605 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Nolan Bushnell
		As the inventor of Pong, Nolan Bushnell is considered by many to be the "father of electronic gaming." He was born in Utah in 1943 and grew up a tinkerer, playing with electronic ignition systems and a roller-skate-mounted liquid fuel rocket in his garage.
		The new video game industry developed video arcades as well as computer-based games.
		Bushnell himself founded the Chuck E. Cheese's "entertainment restaurants," a nationwide chain of pizza parlors with video gaming for children and their parents.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/bushnell_hi.html (392 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - The Museum: Vectrex
		If a video game manufacturer wanted color, they would literally affix colored cellophane strips to the monitor screen, such as was done in Atari's Breakout or Taito's Space Invaders.
		By summer 1983, distribution had begun in Europe and Japan, but by then end of that year the great video game crash had occured and the industry was feeling it's effects.
		The latter was one of the first home games to be ported to the arcade (usually, it's vice-versa) due to a unique licensing agreement with arcade game designer Cinematronics.
	www.classicgaming.com /museum/vectrex (1743 words)

	November 1982, Ottumwa, Iowa contest page @ Classic Arcade Gaming (dot com)
		The January 1983 issue was the special "Year in Pictures" issue for 1982, and featured the classic 'gamers in the street' photo, taken early in the morning on Sunday, November 7, 1982 (Walter Day's 1998 record book erroneously indicates the date as the 9th).
		Apparently, the photo was taken so early (8 AM according to the book), that some of the invited players, most of who traveled hundreds of miles, didn't show up in time to take part.
		The number of originally invited players is not known, but, a total of 18 showed up for the event (Walter's book erroneously indicates that it was 17, along with also stating that 15 players appeared in the picture, which is obviously not correct !).
	www.classicarcadegaming.com /contests/Nov1982 (1036 words)

	Afterlife from 1UP.com
		Arcade game collectors are quick to dump the rarities they find for the enjoyment of all, beginning with the unreleased sequel to Q*Bert.
		In 1982, though, Coleco felt themselves under no such obligation when they developed and released the ColecoVision Expansion Module #1, which was a ColecoVision peripheral that emulated the Atari 2600 to the last detail, allowing Atari's cartridges to be played on a non-Atari system.
		Whatever the purity of Coleco's intentions, their case fell apart in court, and the resulting legal precedent clearly prohibited game console publishers from adding value to their systems by swiping the functionality of a competitor.
	www.1up.com /do/feature?cId=3141638 (1127 words)

	1981 in video gaming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel found Electronic Games, the first magazine on video games and generally recognized as the beginning of video game journalism.
		Bosconian was the first arcade game to have a continue feature.
		Pac-Man and Bosconian, which is the first game to have a continue feature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1981_in_video_gaming (286 words)

	The Falklands War: 1982 for PC video game review and cheats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Actually, the game tends to draw a little too extensively from the past, is this writer’s opinion.
		If you’re familiar with the gaming style prevalent in older tabletop strategy titles such as Squad Commander, or if you’re former military, the interface should be right up your alley.
		The game does boast some impressive military abilities, based on real life strategy from the battlefields of 20 years ago, and even today.
	www.gamezilla.com /review.aspx?review=9092 (401 words)

	Game Console Evolution
		The video game console is nearly 50 years old and to think that if it weren't for William Higinbotham and his oscilloscope, gamers around the world would still be playing board games.
		Video: Only fl and white, color was added through the use of plastic sheets that were attached to the TV screen.
		The Sega Saturn was a 32-bit video game console that was released by SEGA, a year earlier, to compete with the Playstation.
	www.gamingdump.com /consoleevolution.html (1408 words)

	GameSpy.com - Top 10
		One might be able to convincingly argue that pro gaming is indeed a sport, but even if they did, they’d have a pretty rough time trying to make anyone believe it was a good spectator sport.
		Because no amount of fancy video editing will change the fact that you’re watching two (or more) people do something you could very easily be doing on your own.
		While multiplayer competitive games are in a constant state a flux, there are still people trying to break classic arcade game records.
	archive.gamespy.com /top10/april03/progaming (914 words)

	GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Wii PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3
		And then there was also Nolan Bushnell, who played that space game and dreamed of a time when fairground midways would be filled with games powered by computers.
		Today, with interest in classic games gaining steam once again, players of video games are reminded of the rich history of the industry.
		In today's world, where video games are often cited as a source for teenage violence, it's interesting to see that the first home console also had a light rifle as an optional peripheral.
	www.gamespot.com /gamespot/features/video/hov (461 words)

	Gaming Steve
		Games which have little to no press but are fun, solid games.
		Games such as Puzzle Pirates, Weird Worlds, and Ticket to Ride are type of games which really get me excited, games which will generate little to no press, but yet have a cult following and are a ton of fun to play.
		Like everything else in the game, the interface is solid and gets the job done, but the buttons are so large that I often felt like I was playing a game designed by Playskool.
	www.gamingsteve.com (3995 words)

	1982 in video gaming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		December 27 - Starcade, a video game television game show, debuts on TBS in the United States.
		Atari releases E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, possibly the biggest flop in video game history and one of two major video game releases (along with the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man) that helped spark the video game crash of 1983.
		Williams Electronics releases the arcade games Joust (designed by Barry Oursler, art by Constantino Mitchell) and Robotron: 2084 (designed by Eugene Jarvis).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1982_in_video_gaming (360 words)

	Joystiq
		Game values are based on sales levels or anticipation level for those that aren't yet released/currently in short supply; Red Steel is a perfect example, rising sharply until Wii launch then nose diving afterward.
		The movie focuses on the championships held at the Twin Galaxies Arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, which was declared the "Video Game Capital of the World" in 1982 by the mayor of Ottumwa, and then later made official by the governor at a special ceremony in 1983.
		Major League Gaming's premiere broadcast was on the USA network this past Saturday, and it issued a killtacular to other gaming shows (listen up, G4).
	www.joystiq.com /category/competitive-gaming (2357 words)

	AroundCinci - Gaming > Reviews
		The story behind the game seems to ignore the existance of the less successful Dig Dug II that came out in 1985.
		When there is only one enemy remaining he will rush to the surface and the game switches to a 3D view and you must destroy him there to finish the level.
		I finished the game but it was fun enough that I played through a couple more times.
	www.aroundcinci.com /Gaming/review.asp?review=70 (721 words)

	Gaming Steve: The 1982 Atari Club Christmas Catalog
		This 8-page catalog of gaming goodness was bundled inside the September/October 1982 edition of Atari Age Magazine and features some rather odd gift choices.
		Yes, the games were simpler but they forced designers to work harder, look at all the craptastic Batman and Jurassic park licenses to see what it means when developers focus on graphics and forget how to make it fun.
		Considering that I have been playing video games since the mid-1970s I can say that I enjoyed playing Adventure just as much as I enjoyed playing The Legend of Zelda.
	www.gamingsteve.com /archives/2005/12/the_1982_atari_1.php (1080 words)

	Amazon.com: Rona Jaffe's Mazes & Monsters: Video: Tom Hanks,Wendy Crewson,David Wallace,Chris Makepeace,Lloyd ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As the gamers get further into the game, such as playing the game in a maze of caves, one of them, the Tom Hanks character, begins to find it difficult to seperate fantasy from reality as his worlds are melding.
		In other words, the game did not drive someone crazy, they used the game as an escape from reality which, due to their lack of stability, went too far.
		This is further punctuated by the use of a newscast in the movie which uses the game as fodder for the disappearance, although, we have seen through the events which have transpired and through his friends that it is his stability, or lack thereof, which has led to this.
	www.amazon.com /Rona-Jaffes-Mazes-Monsters-Hanks/dp/6301650697 (1866 words)

	The History of Computer Games: Part One: 1975-1982
		Next Week: Atari comes from behind, EA produces the "image" for the gaming industry, cartridge based systems die, and the PCJr is a horrible failure.
		Dan Finkelstein wrote, "Meanwhile, 1977 was the year the Atari 2600 took the country by storm.
		Games such as BurgerTime and Pac-Man were finally available to play at home, and parents we...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/computer_gaming/444/2 (164 words)

	GamingWorld X - Marathon Video Gaming Makes Comeback
		In fact, not since Twin Galaxies conducted the 1st Annual Iron Man Contest for the Guinness Book back in July,1985, has a video gamer stepped to the plate intent on breaking a long-standing video game marathon world record.
		“Long-range, high scoring marathons like Carlton’s were the meat and potatoes of the video gaming world back in the early 80s,” says Day, who personally organized many such marathons for Twin Galaxies back in the classic age of gaming.
		The most unique marathon conducted during the golden age of gaming, was the 1st Annual Twin Galaxies Iron Man Contest, which offered eight competitors a chance at winning $10,000 in cash if they could keep their game going on one quarter for 100 hours.
	www.gamingworldx.com /news/MarathonVideoGamingMakesCo.shtml (416 words)

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