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• Berzerk

  Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter video arcade game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. The player controls a green stick-figure, representing a "humanoid." Using a joystick (and a firing button to

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• Phoenix

  Phoenix was fairly unique when it was released in the arcades in 1980 due to having five distinct stages, continuing music pieces playing during the beginning stage (which in-game music still wasn’t very

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• Tennis for Two

  Last updated Wednesday, February 18, 2019 Tennis for Two is often regarded as one of the first video games ever created. Developed by William Higginbotham, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, Tennis for

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• NBA Jam

  NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series, and was written entirely in assembly language. The main designer and programmer for

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• Battlezone

  Battlezone is an arcade game created by Ed Rotberg and published by Atari. It was released June 1, 1980. The game is a first-person perspective vehicular combat simulator in which the player destroys enemy

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• Pac-Man (game)

  This article is about the game Pac-Man. For information on the character, see Pac-Man (character). Pac-Man is an arcade game released in 1980. It was developed by Namco and licensed in America

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• Asteroids

  Asteroids is a space shooter arcade game released in 1979 by Atari. It was a fairly popular game as it sold many units. The game is recognizable by many people. The object of the game

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• Spyro the Dragon (character)

  Spyro the Dragon is a video game character from the video game, Spyro the Dragon. The game ended up becoming a series when Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto's Rage released in 1999. Spyro comes

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• Dig Dug

  Dig Dug is a an arcade game released in 1982 by Namco. The game play takes the character Dig Dug to go underground to kill monsters. The player controls dig dug to go underground. He

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• Pong

  created by ralph baer Pong is an arcade game that was released in 1972 by Atari Inc. The game is Atari's first game and helped start the video game industry. Atari's president Nolan

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• Centipede(video game)

  Centipede is a shooter arcade game released in 1981 by Atari. Two key designers were Ed Logg and Dona Bailey. It was also one of the first arcade games to have a female player base

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• Video Game History Wiki

  Welcome to Video Game History Wiki The old-fashioned and futuristic gaming encyclopedia that anyone can edit This is an encyclopedia on video games, consoles, and characters and items of the games and the entire

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• Mappy

  Mappy is a platformer arcade game rleased in 1983. Mappy was developed by Namco and licensed and released in North America by Bally/Midway. The gameplay revolves around the mouse cop, Mappy stopping the cat

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• Vendetta

  Vendetta is a beat'em up video game released by Studio 3 in 1989 for the Commodore 64. A group of terrorists have kidnapped the a professor working on a bomb as well as his

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• Video game producer

  A video game producer is the person in charge of overseeing development of a video game. The earliest documented use of the term producer in games was by Trip Hawkins, who established the position when

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• Double Dunk

  Double Dunk is a video game released on the Atari 2600 in 1989 by Atari and is based on the sport of basketball.

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• Gears of War 2

  Gears of War 2 is a tactical third-person, over the shoulder shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360. It is the sequel to

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• Super Mario World

  Super Mario World (originally known in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World) was the first Mario launch game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, November 21, 1990. The game was produced by

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• Kitana

  Kitana is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. She made her debut in Mortal Kombat II. Princess Kitana is at least 10,000 years old, but still maintains her striking beauty

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• Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon

  Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon (also known as Destroy All Humans! 3) is the third Destroy All Humans! game to be released, and is the fourth game in the Destroy All Humans! trilogy

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• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (also referred to as simply Modern Warfare 2 or Call of Duty 6) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for

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• New Super Mario Bros. Wii

  New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a Wii game that was released in November 2009 except Japan, where it was released December 3, 2009. A sequel to New Super Mario Bros., the Wii game has

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• Mortal Kombat (series)

  Midway, which in turn spawned a number of related media. It is especially noted for its digitized sprites (which differentiated it from its contemporaries' hand-drawn sprites), and its mix of bloody and brutal action

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• Halo: Combat Evolved

  Halo: Combat Evolved is a First Person Shooter science fiction video game, created by Bungie Studios, which was a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios at that time. It was released for the original Xbox game

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• Super Smash Bros. Brawl

  Super Smash Bros. Brawl, known in Japan as Dairantō Smash Brothers X (Japanese: 大乱闘 スマッシュ ブラザーズ X, Dairantō Sumasshu Burazāzu Ekkusu, roughly "Great Fray Smash

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