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	Computer and video games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The popularity of computer and video games, as a whole, has been increasing steadily ever since the 1984-1987 drop-off caused by the video game crash of 1983, and the popularity appears to be continuing to increase.
		Computer and video games have been the subject of frequent controversy and censorship, due to the depiction of graphic violence, sexual themes, advertising, consumption of illegal drugs, consumption of alcohol or tobacco, propaganda, or profanity in some games.
		Video games are made by developers, who used to do this as individuals or small teams in the 80's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Video_game (4446 words)

	Tennis (video game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tennis is a video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1986.
		The concept of the game is very basic in that the player controls one person faced against an opponent CPU player.
		In 1989, Tennis was re-released for the Game Boy, and again in 2002 for the e-Reader and in the Nintendo GameCube game, Animal Crossing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tennis_(video_game) (379 words)

	Virtua Tennis 2 Sony Play Station 2 Video Game Review by AceGamez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The likeness of the tennis pros included in the game are excellent and after a point is scored we are quickly shown the player celebrating, walking back into position or stretching and rubbing their arms, just like the real thing.
		There are games that include serving at a moving conveyor belt of prizes to knock off as many as you can with 10 serves, volleying balls at moving tanks to destroy them, returning balls to hit targets and avoiding multiple balls whilst running around the court grabbing flags.
		Virtua Tennis 2 is a very accurate and addictive tennis game that looks and sounds marvelous, feels very authentic and is designed to allow your skills to develop as you master the controls and become a champion.
	www.acegamez.co.uk /Virtua_Tennis_2_PS2.htm (907 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 First Video Game
		Four of the operational amplifiers were used to generate the ball motions and the others to sense when the ball hit the ground or the net, and to switch the controls to the person in whose court the ball was located.
		A two-dimensional, side view of a tennis court was displayed on an oscilloscope, which has a cathode-ray tube similar to a fl and white TV tube.
		Tennis For Two was part of the division's exhibit for two years, and it turned out to be a real crowd pleaser.
	www.bnl.gov /bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp (1071 words)

	Brookhaven 1958 Video Game - DOE Research and Development (R&D) Accomplishments
		Video games capture the rapt attention of millions of children and adults.
		Ahl said he knew about computer gaming done at MIT and by a small company in Cambridge as early as 1961, but was not aware of it being done anywhere else prior to the year in which he spotted the video tennis game at Brookhaven.
		Simulated on a screen was a vertical side view of a tennis court showing the edge of a floor with the edge of the net perpendicular to it.
	www.osti.gov /accomplishments/videogame.html (1169 words)

	Amazon.com: Tennis: Computer & Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This game is definitely NOT for children or anyone else who lacks hours of patience to be able to learn just to serve.
		This is one of those games that's best to own, its not a good rental game because of the learning curve required before you can play it right.
		I gave this game 4 1/2 stars (which I rounded up to 5 because 4 1/2 stars is not an option here) because my wife any I are having a ball playing this game together.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005K3WW?v=glance (1106 words)

	Creating the Game: Grand Slam Tennis on the Arcadia 2001
		There was some lecturing, but mostly a lot of video action BJK serving the ball, or BJK running across the court to catch a ball with her forehand, or running the other way to catch it with her backhand, stuff like that.
		The game console was eventually sold as Emerson Arcadia 2001, with a Signetics 2650 8-bit CPU and some kind of video chip that had 8 colors on maybe 256x256 pixels -- the pixels were not even square.
		When a real tennis racket hits the ball, you get a smushy-sharp "plock" as the ball compresses and rebounds, plus a little bit of a twang when the strings in the racket oscilate like a guitar string (but much shorter, because the cross-weave damps it quickly).
	www.stageselect.com /News/NewsViewer.aspx?newsid=708 (2223 words)

	Video Game History
		The first video game (in my opinion, people argue about this) was Tennis for Two, implemented in 1958 on an analog computer and an oscilloscope by Willy Higinbotham and others at the Brookhaven National Laboratories.
		He interprets the "video" in video game as a technical term (it refers to a particular way of putting data on a screen?), and sees himself as the inventor of the video game.
		Video arcades, and the presence of video games in restaurants and bars probably peaked in the early 1980s (no source, just from personal experience).
	www.ourpla.net /cgi/pikie?VideoGameHistory (513 words)

	Family Video Game Reviews for Parents - Mario Power Tennis
		However, the character-specific animation sequences that play during the game, particularly pre-rendered scenes triggered when you unleash a cheat that allows you to return a shot no matter where you are on the court, can get tedious because you can’t cancel them out by pushing a button.
		Rather than overcoming computer-controlled foes together, one of use is going to lose or, in the case of adults, potentially throw the game depending on the age of your child and whether you’re trying to teach him/her that they can’t always win every game they play.
		As you’d expect, the higher the level of difficulty, the less forgiving the game is, so you’ll have to be close to the ball in order to put a lot of mustard on your returns.
	www.parentpreviews.com /html/games/mario_power_tennis.shtml (844 words)

	lawn tennis court dimensions - Search.hm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tennis was originally called lawn tennis, and grass courts are still in use...
		To standardize the rules of tennis pertaining to scoring, equipment, and court dimensions, the United States Lawn and Tennis Association was established in 1881.
		Tennis was originally called "lawn tennis," and grass courts are still in use, but the most common court...
	search.hm /search/lawn-tennis-court-dimensions/1-2.html (594 words)

	Amazon.com: Snoopy Tennis: Computer & Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is the first video game to feature the Peanuts characters and it's a splendid showing.
		However, I think that is appropriately balanced with the fact that I was a state ranked tennis player and have worked in the tennis industry for several years, making me a very harsh critic of any tennis game.
		As a tennis player, it's very nice to see actual mechanics used in the game (ie: when you swing earlier, you will pull the ball toward the forehand side).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000059Z7J?v=glance (1343 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 (1341 words)

	ControllerFreaks \| Video Game Review \| Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament
		It’s the sole Tennis game on the release slate and has a list of options as long as its name.
		Game play / Control: I warn you nowI never played Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament (the first game) so I won’t be able to compare the changes from title to titlebut hey bare with me. SCTPT2’s strongest assets are its solid game play, decent controls and adequate list of game modes.
		SCTPT2 is not the best tennis game made but it is the most current filled with enough game types to keep you coming back for a long while.
	sony.controllerfreaks.com /review.asp?RevID=247 (1248 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Virtua Tennis World Tour (PSP): PC & Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Video games publishers have an uncanny knack of ensuring that the only time of year a new tennis game is never released is during the middle of Wimbledon.
		World Tour is a great feature on this game which allows you to make your character and train him or her and compete in tournaments aiming to become world number one.
		And this game isn't only for tennis lovers; this is a game for anyone and of any age.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009OO6XO (942 words)

	Video Games: Timeline
		Physicist Willy Higinbotham invents the first "video game" at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
		His game, a table tennis-like game, was played on an oscilloscope.
		Magnavox's Odyssey, the first home video game system, is showcased at a convention in Burlingame, CA, and is released to the public later that year.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/gamestimeline1.html (315 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Pigeons boost tennis game
		Acclaim, publishers of a video tennis game designed for PlayStation2, will be releasing specially trained homing pigeons, emblazoned with the game's logo.
		Twenty birds will be spray-painted with the Virtua Tennis 2 logo and trained to fly in and out of the home of British tennis during the 2003 Wimbledon championships which start next week.
		The Lawn Tennis Association is well aware of the stunt the firm said and it was confident it would cause no disruption to important games.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3007704.stm (370 words)

	Take Two moves from Grand Theft Auto to Ping Pong - Mar. 7, 2006
		The game will be exclusive to Microsoft's (Research) next generation console and, judging by screenshots (admittedly a poor way to determine a game's final visual qualities) will take advantage of the system's powerhouse graphics capabilities.
		The decision to invest in development of a Ping Pong video game is certainly a curious one, but Rockstar has never been a company to play it safe.
		It is, in fact, one of the very few "indoor" sports that has a video game patterned after it.
	money.cnn.com /2006/03/06/commentary/game_over/column_gaming (949 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Best TENNIS Video Game ?
		Mario Tennis is a good game, but it is not nearly as good as Virtua Tennis.
		Virtua Tennis would be perfect if there were more players and real-life competitions instead of made up names.
		Seriously, VT is the only tennis game you should be playing.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=134305 (359 words)

	Grand Slam Tennis
		A business acquaintance told me about his uncle who ran some kind of video game company in Hong Kong and was looking for game programmers, and I was interested.
		Think about it for a minute: real tennis players have spent five and ten years -- essentially all their childhood and early adult years swinging hard objects held in their hand at a flying round object, making the connection, and learning how to control where that ball flies off to.
		Even newbie tennis learners have had some experience with hand-arm-eye coordination, and yet they take weeks to learn how to get that tennis ball over the net and not out of the court.
	www.ittybittycomputers.com /Essays/Tennis.html (2257 words)

	tennis video game for PS2 - Talk Tennis
		virtua tennis is a arcade game doesn't even come close to the realism of topspin.
		tennis games are NO WHERE near realistic right now, comparing to other sports sims at least.
		but tennis is not a easy sport to sim because the game is about execution more than strategy.
	tt.tennis-warehouse.com /showthread.php?t=55252 (440 words)

	USTA's Complete Conditioning for Tennis Video - PAL Format (Copyright 1998)
		The video is divided into two main parts, the first part providing the conditioning basics on which you build your training regimen.
		The National Association for Basketball Coaches' (NABC) Basketball Fundamentals Video Series is a complete instructional clinic on passing, dribbling, moving without the ball, shooting, rebounding, and defending for players and coaches.
		Lon Kruger, Barry Collier, and Homer Drew are exceptional teachers of the game of basketball.
	www.ppcpoint.com /di/2035806.html (1817 words)

	Product
		It is a revolutionary plug and play Video Gamebike that fully controls every movement on the screen with your own body movements.
		Because the Game Bike is designed to serve as the Video Game Controller, when you pedal faster, the Bicycle, Car, Boat or Skier on screen goes faster.
		A wireless video game adapter is also available.
	www.5starfitness.net /site/1395878/product/407-6111892 (296 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - PC & Video Games: Mario Tennis - Used -- Nintendo of America - Game Boy
		It is guaranteed to work on your Game Boy Color video game console and may not include a box or instruction manual.
		The screen may be smaller, but Mario Tennis is every bit as fun on Game Boy Color as it is on Nintendo 64.
		The play control is still awesome and the tennis action is as fast-paced as ever, but the Game Boy version features a rich RPG-style approach to the gameplay.
	videogames.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=2000003023097&Itm=9 (142 words)

	Tennis Games Tennis Video Game
		Define your tennis playing style, take risks, pull off world-class shots, argue calls, and work the crowd to develop a unique image on the court.You can also train with a coach, to master shots and playing surfaces and work your way up the online rankings to become the best in the world.
		Smash Court Tennis 2 is the only tennis game that lets you experience the exhilaration of competing at all four Grand Slam tournaments: the Australian Open, Roland Garros (French Open), Wimbledon and the US Open.
		The game is intended for one to four players.
	www.thegameweb.com /tennis.htm (764 words)

	Anna's new video game - Official Anna Kournikova Message Boards
		It looks like Anna is going to be in another tennis video game.
		The last one she participated in was 'Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament' for Playstation 2.
		Microsoft Game Studios announced the Russian tennis star’s affiliation with the game at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, CA.
	www.kournikova.com /community/showthread.php?t=7412 (232 words)

	PlanetDreamcast: Games - Reviews - Virtua Tennis
		It's not often that a tennis video game is highly anticipated.
		In fact, I'd wager this is the first time in the short history of video games that a tennis title has sold out its initial shipment in a week.
		The game is presented in a remarkably TV-like style, with short interludes between points.
	www.planetdreamcast.com /games/reviews/virtuatennis (947 words)

	Xbox.com \| Top Spin™ - Game Detail Page
		Define your tennis playing style, take risks, pull off world-class shots,and work the crowd to develop a unique image on the court.
		This release from MS Game Studios, despite the glaring lack of competition, is one of the best tennis game(s) you can get."
		Build a career: Personalize your player's look, style, and personality and get coaching to correct a weakness or perfect an aspect of his or her tennis game.
	www.xbox.com /en-US/topspin (437 words)

	Mario Tennis: Power Tour GBA Video Game Review \| Sports \| Nintendo \| Luigi \| Peach \| Bowser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It's a tennis game that lets you create your own future-superstar player and compete against the greatest players in the Mushroom Kingdom to prove your skills.
		You kick off the main chunk of Mario Tennis: Power Tour by creating your very own tennis diva (boy or girl) and diving headfirst into a ton of games against the greatest tennis players in the Mushroom Kingdom.
		There are also mini-games that power-up your game with new moves and you can challenge up to four friends to multiplayer matches by plugging in link cables.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p6252.htm (282 words)

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