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  2. Early history of video games - Wikipedia

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    The console and its games featured numerous innovations beyond being the first video game device for home consumers: it was the first game to use a raster-scan video display, or television set, directly displayed via modification of a video signal; it was also the first video gaming device to be displayed in a television commercial. [66]

  3. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    By 1997, the first consumer dedicated 3D graphics cards were available on the market driven by the demand for first-person shooters, and numerous 3D game engines were created in the years that followed, including Unreal Engine, GoldSrc, and CryEngine, and establishing 3D as the new standard in most computer video games.

  4. Pac-Man - Wikipedia

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    Pac-Man is considered one of the first video games to have demonstrated the potential of characters in the medium; [125] [130] its title character was the first original gaming mascot, it increased the appeal of video games with female audiences, and it was gaming's first broad licensing success. [125]

  5. Category : Video game characters by year of introduction

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    Video game characters introduced in 2024 (4 P) This page was last edited on 25 September 2024, at 20:37 (UTC). Text ...

  6. Pong - Wikipedia

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    Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades.It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game.

  7. Metroid - Wikipedia

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    The central figures in the production and development of the Metroid series are Satoru Okada, who directed Metroid and created the series; Yoshio Sakamoto, who was a character designer for the first game and has directed or supervised most of the sequels; Gunpei Yokoi, who headed the R&D1 division and produced the first two games; Makoto Kano ...

  8. Donkey Kong (1981 video game) - Wikipedia

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    It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series and Mario's first appearance in a video game. Donkey Kong was created to salvage unsold arcade cabinets following the failure of Nintendo's Radar Scope (1980), and was designed for Nintendo of America's audience. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's president at the time, assigned the project to first-time ...

  9. Mario - Wikipedia

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    Mario (/ ˈ m ɑːr i oʊ, ˈ m ær i oʊ /; Japanese: マリオ) is a character created by the Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto.He is the main character of the Mario franchise, a recurring character in the Donkey Kong franchise, and the mascot of the Japanese video game company Nintendo.