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	Arcade game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first popular "arcade games" were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those which claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music.
		The last gasp of the youth arcade subculture, as it once was, may have been the advent of two-player fighting games such as Street Fighter II (1991) by Capcom, Mortal Kombat (1992) by Midway Games, and Fatal Fury(1992) and King of Fighters (1994-2005) by SNK.
		Games on consoles or the PC can be referred to as an "arcade game" if it shares these qualities, or if it's a direct port of an arcade title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arcade_game (910 words)

	Timeline of arcade game history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Midway releases Gun Fight, the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor - a game whose original incarnation was released in Japan by Taito and did not use a microprocessor.
		Killer Instinct is released, the first arcade game with a hard disk, up to that point the game with the highest quality graphics pre-rendered by a rendering program, featuring to this day the highest quality use of the movie background technique.
		Konami releases Dance Dance Revolution, an arcade game with four arrow pads that the players used to "dance." This game would create many sequels and spin-offs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_arcade_game_history (554 words)

	Jesper Juul: Time To Play
		Most computer games project a game world, and to play them is therefore to engage in a kind of pretense-play: you are both "yourself," and you have another role in the game world.
		In the classical arcade game, the changing of levels is usually not described as making any sense in the game world; in fact arcade games tend to present several ontologically separate worlds that simply replace one another with no indication of any connection.
		Games are supposed to be, if not fun, then at least enjoyable experiences, but this is obviously not always the case: I’d like to invoke the concept of dead time: dead time is when you have to perform unchallenging activities for the sake of a higher goal.
	www.jesperjuul.net /text/timetoplay (5379 words)

	Arcade Home
		However presently families are the largest arcade constituent, mainly because the lack of standard new games being released in arcades (arcades now are comprised mostly of deluxe games which are more popular with families).
		With the increase of Internet cafes opening (which also provide gaming services), the need for video arcades and such arcade games are reduced, and many have been shut down or merged with the cafes as a result.
		This style of arcade game is known as a ''cocktail-style arcade game table'', since they were first popularlized in bars.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/9/arcade-home.html (843 words)

	Pong Video Game History - Invention of the Pong Video Game
		Introduced by Atari in 1974--long before anyone had seen a personal computer—Pong was an adaptation of the company’s popular arcade game of the same name, and it became the most popular game of the 1975 holiday season, with sales of $40,000,000 for the year.
		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.
		This is the inside scoop on the history, successes, tricks, and even failures of the entire electronic games industry.This lavishly illustrated full-color retrospective takes you on a guided tour of the evolution of electronic games from blips on a tiny screen in a computer science lab to the multi-billion-dollar industry it has become today.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/pong.htm (1341 words)

	Game Over (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The site offers pages on the history of arcade games, home systems and personal computer games, including information on the rise of violence in these mediums, a list of links and a site archive.
		Their chronology of the video game industry begins in 1889 with Fusajiro Yamauchi, the founder of the Marufuku Company (later to be called The Nintendo Playing Card Company), and takes the reader up to 1999 and the next generation of home video game consoles.
		Game Over suggests, when people of color are featured as primary characters in video games, their race is essentialized into stereotypes.
	www.mediaed.org /videos/MediaGenderAndDiversity/GameOver/studyguide/html (2856 words)

	arcade game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game.]] An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, typically installed in businesses such as restaurants, pubs, and video arcades.
		See also: Timeline of arcade game history The first popular "arcade games" were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those which claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music.
		In addition to restaurants and video arcades, arcade games are also found in bowling alleys, college campuses, dormitories, laundromats, movie theatres, supermarkets, shopping malls, airports, bars/pubs and even bakeries.
	www.33beat.com /arcade_game.html (1130 words)

	Open Directory - Games: Video Games: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Classic Arcade Gaming - Classic Arcade Gaming chronicles the history of the golden age of coin-op video gaming including the games, players, contests, and scores.
		History of Home Video Games - A history of home video games from 1992 to 1996, as chronicled by Greg Chance.
		Video Game Database - Video game database is a searchable database of all games for all systems that is continually being updated by gamers.
	dmoz.org /Games/Video_Games/History (1380 words)

	Articles - Arcade game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Games such as ´´Space Invaders´´ (1978), ´´Pac-Man´´; (1980), ´´Donkey Kong´´; (1981), and ´´Tapper´´ (1983) were especially popular.
		The last gasp of the youth arcade subculture, as it once was, may have been the advent of two-player fighting games such as ´´Street Fighter II´´ (1991) by Capcom, ´´Mortal Kombat´´ (1992) by Midway Games, and ´´Fatal Fury(1992)´´ and ´´King of Fighters´´ (1994-2005) by SNK.
		Examples are rhythm games such as ´´Dance Dance Revolution´´; (1998) and ´´DrumMania´´ (1999), and rail shooters such as ´´House of the Dead´´ (1998) and ´´Time Crisis´´.
	www.anfolk.com /articles/Arcade_game (894 words)

	Toronto Blue Jays : History : Blue Jays Timeline
		After an opening game loss, the Jays won three consecutive games, two of which were the result of dramatic ninth-inning come-backs.
		Atlanta bounced back for a win in game five, but the Jays made baseball history in game six, winning the Series with a 4-3 victory in 11 innings.
		In game six at Skydome, the Phillies overcame a 5-1 deficit and carried a 6-5 lead into the bottom of the ninth.
	toronto.bluejays.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/tor/history/timeline4.jsp (1892 words)

	The First Video Game
		Among the examples were the trajectory of a bullet subject to gravity and wind resistance, missile trajectories and a bouncing ball.
		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.
		Considering Higinbotham's background, his invention of the game in1958 was a natural outgrowth of his schooling and work experience.
	www.bnl.gov /bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp (1071 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		History of Computers - A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
		The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present - Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.
		National Archive for the History of Computing - Houses the UK's most important collection of documents relating to the history of computing, and encourages interest and study in the history of computing more generally.
	dmoz.org /Computers/History (590 words)

	Pictorial History of Media Technology
		This pictorial timeline is an expansion of a presentation originally given in the media technology forum at the PCA/ACA annual conference.
		A goal with this timeline is to provide a decent picture of the technology at hand and a brief description of it, with links to more extensive web sites when they are available.
		The timeline will be a continuous work in progress as new technology emerges and I continue to fill holes in the past timeline.
	www.cedmagic.com /history (744 words)

	New York Mets : History : Mets Timeline
		The shape of the insignia, with its orange stitching, represents a baseball, and the bridge in the foreground symbolizes that the Mets, in bringing back the National League to New York, represent all five boroughs.
		The game was the culmination of a project that cost $28.5 million and took 29 months to build.
		October 12, 1969 - The Mets win a World Series game for the first time in their history, a 2-1 victory over the Orioles in Baltimore.
	newyork.mets.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/nym/history/timeline1.jsp (1113 words)

	The Dot Eaters - Player2 Stage1 - Classic Video Game History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Setting the tone for their business relationship, he tells his friend that the payment for the game was only $700 and pays Wozniak his "50-50" share of $350 and furthermore takes all the credit when Breakout becomes a hit 15,000 unit seller for Atari.
		Both games naturally end up ported to Atari's venerable VCS home system, but the extreme limitations of that system won't even allow individual bricks to be drawn on the screen; players instead knock pieces out of colourful lines at the top of the screen.
		His brief exposure to the game comes during a tour of the MIT campus as a possible freshman candidate in 1968.
	www.emuunlim.com /doteaters/play2sta1.htm (2163 words)

	Computer Games Time Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		History of Computer Games, by S. Kent, J. Horwitz, and J. Fielder.
		Role-playing game with randomized maps and objects every time the game is played (``screen shot'').
		Atari releases the VCS 5200 Game Console, based on chips from Atari home computers, but fails because there are few new games and the old cartridges are not compatible.
	www.cs.colby.edu /~rjones/courses/cs398/history.html (2108 words)

	Major League Baseball : History : World Series Overview
		Kirk Gibson's two-run homer in the ninth inning of the first game of the 1988 World Series gave the underdog Dodgers a stunning 5-4 victory over Oakland.
		The first World Series, in 1903, was a best-of-nine affair arranged between the champions of the older National League (founded in 1876) and the American League.
		The AL's Boston Pilgrims upset the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 games to 3.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/postseason/mlb_ws.jsp (305 words)

	GameSpot Presents: A Brief Timeline of Video Game Music
		Early arcade classics such as Pac-Man and Defender relied on superb digital sound schemes to provide us with ditties, melodies, beeps, and buzzes we'd never heard before.
		Individual proponents within the game music industry are lobbying for a video game-specific category in the future.
		As technology progresses and as overall game design continues to evolve, video game music promises to be a fertile area of development and growth.
	www.gamespot.com /gamespot/features/video/vg_music (529 words)

	All Your Base Are Belong To Us 1
		In many team games, the object is to capture, steal a flag from, or otherwise infiltrate the enemy's base.
		The arcade version is missing the intro, but the ending has a similar translation.
		People who had been exposed to the phenomeon (mostly 3D game fans) take it back to their own boards, and similar threads (often using the same pictures) are started.
	frogstar.com /aybabtu/aa-history.asp (2068 words)

	PlayStation 3 Portal - Brief Video Game Console History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This Timeline shows the dates when all the major consoles and games were launched.
		Its insides are the same as it's arcade counterpart, (the MVS), for the first time TRULY bringing arcade games home.
		Many games are reported to look as good or better than their PS2 counterparts.
	www.ps3portal.com /?page=history (1232 words)

	Cleveland: A Bicentennial Timeline
		This timeline was prepared by the editorial staff of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.
		Rather, they represent those events and issues that the various members of the editorial staff felt were critical to understanding the development of Greater Cleveland during the past 200 years.
		Almost all of the events, organizations, and individuals noted in this timeline are subjects of specific articles in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (second edition) and its companion volume, the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography.
	ech.cwru.edu /timeline.html (1800 words)

	Library
		Moby Games is an excellent source of information about specific games and designers.
		Look here first to find out who designed a game, when and by whom it was published, credits, box covers, technical specifications, etc..
		The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers not only lists programmers for games on dozens of platforms, but also provides interviews and articles about early game programmers, in particular.
	www.stanford.edu /class/sts145/html/library.htm (893 words)

	Timeline of Schenectady History
		Editorial Note: This timeline was created for the Schenectady County Historical Society around 1920.
		The histories record it as "The Massacre of Schenectady." Sixty residents were killed and 27 made prisoners.
		Jonathan Pearson, a recognized authority on Schenectady history and famed as an educator, was born.
	www.schist.org /schdates.html (10833 words)

	Minnesota Twins : History : Twins History
		Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew hit 573 career home runs to place him 7th on the all-time home run list and second to only Babe Ruth in American League history.
		However since 1961, the baseball spotlight in Minnesota has focused mainly on the major league game.
		Use the links above to trace the franchise's history, from the move from Washington, to the 2003 Division Champs.
	minnesota.twins.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/min/history/index.jsp (164 words)

	Digiplay Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Gunfight, an arcade game from Midway Games, becomes the first game to use a microprocessor instead of hard wiring.
		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.
		Atari releases what was to be their best-selling game, Asteroids, as an arcade game.
	www.digiplay.org.uk /timeline.php (1829 words)

	Expanded Entertainment 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Killer List of Video Games (KLOV) is a product of the Video Arcade Preservation Society.
		A comprehensive - decade-by-decade - chronicle of the evolution of video games, from the first interactive artifacts in the 1930's to the latest highly sophisticated computer games.
		An international forum where game development professionals from around the world gather to exchange ideas.
	www.ammi.org /exhibitions/expent/relatedweb.html (220 words)

	St. Louis Cardinals : History : Cardinals History
		In Game 5, with the series and game tied at 2-2, spray-hitting Ozzie Smith stepped up to the plate in the ninth inning and smacked a solo homer off bullpen ace Tom Niedenfuer.
		The 1964 Cardinals will be forever remembered as the team that came on strong in the end to stun the NL.
		Trailing the Phillies by 6 1/2 games as late as Sept. 21, the Cards rallied to finish atop the NL and win the World Series.
	stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/stl/history/index.jsp (207 words)

	The Dot Eaters - Classic Video Game History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I've only just started to scratch the surface of videogame history, but you can follow the progress of the site in the What's New list, and I'm trying to add new elements as often as I can.
		The site is split up into different categories (players), each with their own sections (stages).
		While I think reading each section in each category in order, by using the rosetta stones, is the best way to understand videogame history as it progressed, you can of course jump to any stage you like with the handy drop down menus at the bottom of each page.
	www.emuunlim.com /doteaters (216 words)

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