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Atari 2600 and How It Made History

Friday, April 24, 2009

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From Financial Times: Born in the early 1970s, I’ve experienced only a few world-changing events along the lines of the automobile, the telephone, and the television. Sure, I was around the campus computer cluster when NCSA Mosaic was installed in 1994, but the Internet didn’t make a grand entrance. (The UC Museum of Paleontology, a prominent [...]

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The History of Pong

Friday, January 16, 2009

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It started with an idea. Al Alcorn, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, pooled their efforts together to create not just the first commercially successful video game, but also one of the most famous video games ever. Many Pong articles out there offer few details to the events preceding the release of Pong, but only just [...]

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Leonardo DiCaprio in Atari movie

Friday, June 6, 2008

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Leonardo DiCaprio in Atari movie

Leonardo DiCaprio ventures into the gaming world ̶ ̶ in movie form.

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Battle Stations for Battlezone!

Sunday, March 30, 2008

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Battle Stations for Battlezone!

Find out what Atari Classic is being re-released for all to enjoy

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The 30 Defining Moments In Gaming

Sunday, October 28, 2007

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The 30 Defining Moments In Gaming

In 1977 the Atari 2600 launched and along with it much of what we know today as the videogame industry. How did we get where we are today? Next Generation investigates.

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