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The first computer programed game ever
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Tennis for two was first introduced on October 18th 1958. the game was created by William Higinbotham, an ex-nucular physisist who woked on the manhaten project. he wanted to show people that technology had a relevance to society.
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Ralph Baer got support from his company, to make interactive games for a telivision
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Ralph Baer and his coleages succeed in making to new games for tv. A chase game and a tennis game, they also create the tech for a toy gun to sense light on a tv screen.
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a patent is given to Ralph Baer for "A Television Gaming Apparatus and Method"
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Magnavox's Odyssey, is invented
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atari is founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney
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Atari creates pong
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Midway creates Space Invaders, it is the first arcade game that tracks and records highscores.
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300,000 units of Pac-Man are released worldwide by Namco.
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Alex Pajitnov a russian programer creates Tetris.
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Nintendo is intro duced to america
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Nintendo produces the game boy, and it goes on market for $109
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Joseph Lieberman from Conneticut and Herbert Kohl from Wisconsin start a senate ivestigation on violence in video games, later hoping to ban any violence in them. What if that notion was accepted and the law passed? Where would we be today in entertainment?
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Due to the senate investigation, a law was passed that all video games should have ratings.
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The playstation comes out in Japan
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Playstation comes out in america and sells for $299
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Nitendo 64 comes out in Japan
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Nintendo 64 appears in the U.S.
