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e. The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...
1972 – The Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, is released, [ 3 ] along with the arcade machine Pong. [ 2 ] 1973 – Pong and similar titles dominate the arcade sector, Gotcha, Space Race and Maze War are also released. 1974 – Tank is released, as well as the early first first-person shooter Spasim.
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The historical video game belongs to a video game genre in which stories are based upon historical events, environments, or people. Some historical video games are simulators, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event, civilization or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow.
The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966. Handheld consoles originated from electro-mechanical games that used mechanical controls and light-emitting diodes (LED) as visual ...
This is a list of Middle-earth video games.It includes both video games based directly on J. R. R. Tolkien's books about Middle-earth, and those derived from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. which in turn were based on Tolkien's novels of the same name.
List of tactical role-playing video games: 1980s to 1994. List of tactical role-playing video games: 1995 to 1999. List of tactical role-playing video games: 2000 to 2004. List of tactical role-playing video games: 2005 to 2009. List of tactical role-playing video games: 2010 to 2019. List of tactical role-playing video games: 2020 to 2029.
Sega. Yakuza – retroactively called Yakuza 1 by fans – was the first game in the series to be released, and prior to the release of Yakuza 0, was the earliest point in the story’s timeline ...