popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since then, video gaming...

student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware was released in the early 1970s. The...

landmark in the history of the video game industry with the releases of Pong and the Odyssey home console. The profile of electronic games rose substantially...

coin-operated video games, is founded to produce graphical terminals. Early history of video games 1971 in games Ralph Baer's numbers compiled in April 1976...

In the history of video games, the second-generation era refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available...

Tom Kane (born 1962) is a retired American voice actor. He is best known for his work in animation and video games, most notably the Star Wars franchise...

example of such. The earliest video games, such as Tennis for Two (1958), Spacewar! (1962), and Pong (1972), were symmetrical games designed to be played by...

At the beginning of the 1970s, video games existed almost entirely as novelties passed around by programmers and technicians with access to computers...

such as Spacewar! (1962) and early racing video games such as Astro Race (1973). The first examples of multiplayer real-time games were developed on the...

Video gaming in Finland consists of video game industry of 260 active video game developer studios, roughly a dozen professional players and countless...

Numerous video games featuring the popular Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man have been officially released. To date, Spider-Man has appeared on over...

components and displayed to a video device, typically a monitor, all contained within an enclosed arcade cabinet. Arcade video games are often installed alongside...

Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner...

In the history of video games, the first generation era refers to the video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available from...

Shooter video games or shooters are a subgenre of action video games where the focus is almost entirely on the defeat of the character's enemies using...

to whether video games could be seen as an art form; movie critic Roger Ebert postulated in open debates that video games could not be art in 2005 and 2006...

Shooter Games. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4411-9144-1. Some of the earliest video games, such as the mainframe game Spacewar! (1962) and commercial games based...

(born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname Gaben, is an American businessman who is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve...

the Crash Bandicoot video games during the Naughty Dog years. Brendan James O'Brien was born in Hollywood, California, on May 9, 1962. He was the son of...

Spacewar! (1962), one of the first video games ever made, was science fiction-themed. While most video games blend together fantasy and sci-fi in a way that...

This is a list of personal computer games (video games for personal computers, including those running Windows, macOS, and Linux) that have sold or shipped...

of video games, emulation of video game hardware, maintenance and preservation of specialized video game hardware such as arcade games and video game...

Shooting video games have roots in EM shooting games. Video game journalist Brian Ashcraft argues the early mainframe game Spacewar! (1962) was the first...

display. All arcade video games are coin-operated or accept other means of payment, housed in an arcade cabinet, and located in amusement arcades alongside...

ISSN 0269-6983. Fox, Matt (3 January 2013). The Video Games Guide: 1,000+ Arcade, Console and Computer Games, 1962-2012, 2d ed. McFarland & Company. p. 60....

Marienbad was a 1962 Polish puzzle mainframe game created by Elwro engineer Witold Podgórski in Wrocław, Poland for its Odra 1003. It was an adaption...

Jeff Minter (born 22 April 1962) is an English video game designer and programmer who often goes by the name Yak. He is the founder of software house...

shooter video games based on the TV series of the same name. The first game based on the series was released for the ZX Spectrum by Elite Systems in 1984...

fighting games, beat 'em ups, shooter games, rhythm games and platform games. Multiplayer online battle arena and some real-time strategy games are also...

network around the world. The first video and computer games, such as NIMROD (1951), OXO (1952), and Spacewar! (1962), were for one or two players sitting...