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1'st game
Edward U. Condon designs a computer that plays the traditional game Nim. Nim is a game who try to avoid picking the last match stick. -
Second game
Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann file a patent. They did it for a "cathode ray tube amusement device." In their game, people uses a cathode ray tube hooked to an oscilloscope display, challenges players to fire a gun at a target. -
3 years later...
Claude Shannon lays out the basic guidelines for programming a chess-playing computer, "Programming a Computer for Playing Chess." That same year both he and Englishman Alan Turing create chess programs. -
A.S Douglass
A. S. Douglass creates OXO (a game known as noughts and crosses in the United Kingdom.) -
First blackjack program
Programmers at New Mexico develop the first blackjack program. -
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Pong
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari develop an arcade table tennis game. When they test it in Andy Capps Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, it stops working. The funny thing is that is stops working because people keep jamming thier quarters. -
1980
Missing slice of pizza inspired Toru Iwatani to create Pac-Man, which goes on sale in July 1980. That year a version of Pac-Man for Atari 2600 becomes the first arcade hit to appear on a home console. -
DS
Nintendo maintains its dominance of the handheld market with the Nintendo DS, an easy-to-use, portable gaming system packed with two processors, two screens, multiplayer capabilities, and a stylus for the touchscreen. it sometimes is small enogh to fit into a pocket. -
World of Warcraft
More than 10 million worldwide subscribers make World of Warcraft the most popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. -
My favorite
The indie game movement comes of age with the tremendous popularity of Minecraft, the addictive brick-building game from Swedish developer Markus Persson. Markus is known as Notch.Jeb and more others helped. (DinnerBone is awesome) -
Kickstarter
Crowdfunding site Kickstarter enables game creators to raise millions of dollars to produce new and experimental play platforms such as the OUYA console and the Oculus Rift. More others are still coming out. (Image: Pewdiepie) -
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We have a lot of games in our life. And a lot are comng out,
