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The history of gaming

Chapter 1

Ancient board games and the dawn of play

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Chapter 2

The birth of digital arcades

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Chapter 3

The home console revolution and crash

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Chapter 4

The 3D era and virtual worlds

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Ch 2 · The birth of digital arcades
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Tiny Coin Arcade

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diegoplays Space Invaders and the Japanese arcade boom

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diegoplays Pong and the rise of Atari

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diegoplays Nimrod and the earliest digital game computers

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diegoplays In '72, a game called Pong began to play, Quarters flowed in, lighting up the arcade way!

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Pong and the rise of Atari

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Fun Fact

Pac-Man's shape: Designer Toru Iwatani got the idea for Pac-Man's iconic shape after removing a single slice from a whole pizza.

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Glossary
arcade (noun)
A public place where people can play coin-operated games. In 1971, Nolan Bushnell created Computer Space, pioneering the commercial market for these amusement venues.

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Quiz

Which university's students programmed the influential 1962 space combat game Spacewar!?

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Gossip

Favorite classic arcade game?

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Quiz

Which massive computer built in 1951 was designed specifically to play the mathematical game Nim?

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Quiz

What was the first commercially sold arcade video game, released in 1971 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney?

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What iconic food inspired designer Toru Iwatani to create the character shape of Pac-Man?

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Quiz

Which game designer created Pong for Atari as a training exercise?

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Quiz

Why did the prototype Pong arcade cabinet at Andy Capp's Tavern stop working shortly after installation?

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Quiz

Which 1978 Japanese arcade game is famously rumored to have caused a temporary shortage of 100-yen coins?

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Quiz

In the original 1981 Donkey Kong arcade game, what was Mario's original name and profession?

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