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    when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Este Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device." Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public. Since then, video gaming has become a popular form of entertainment and a part of modern culture in most parts of the world. There are currently considered

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    released by Magnavox all served the same function as the switches and allowed gamers to choose from the Odyssey 's built-in games. The Odyssey only initially sold about 100,000 units,[3] making it moderately successful, and it was not until Atari 's arcade game Pong popularized video games, that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry. By autumn 1975, Magnavox, bowing to

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    Kids were hooked on games in the arcades and wanted to bring the experience into the household. Nowadays, video games are a big market and throughout the past few years, the industry has boomed into a very large business where big companies like Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft are fighting to be the best. Because there are so many games for these systems and because it is such a big business, stores specialising in only these

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    released by Magnavox all served the same function as the switches and allowed gamers to choose from the Odyssey 's built-in games. The Odyssey only initially sold about 100,000 units,[3] making it moderately successful, and it was not until Atari 's arcade game Pong popularized video games, that the public began to take more notice of the emerging industry. By autumn 1975, Magnavox, bowing

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    in Wozniak’s spare time, it eventually developed into the first product of Apple Personal Computers Inc., launching in 1976. It a utilized a 6502 processor: a clone of the 6800 by MOS Technologies, soon to be the basis of the Nintendo Entertainment System CPU in future decades. It also featured a working keyboard and text video output, but required extensive assembly. In 1974, Federico Faggin – a member of the team that had worked on the original Intel 4004 MPU – left Intel to found Zilog. With funding

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    originally for arcades, then came the first home console. The graphics have changed a lot since the first console game. Games colors were originally just black and white now they have more colors then you can think of. Not all businesses made it through competition of other businesses. In the seventies video games were fairly new. Some companies were successful. One of those companies was Colecovision Telstar. The first game systems were not powered like today’s game systems are. In the seventies

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    been learned.   Resource 3: Drop Box Dropbox is an online storage system that allows the user to save files and retrieve those files at a later time. The program virtually eliminates the need for a flash drive. You can also save your information to the Internet and allow others to see that information as well.   Teachers can save their lesson plans and pacing guides to Dropbox and share those with other teachers within the system. Most importantly the teachers no longer have to carry their laptop

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    In 1975, Nintendo shifted to the video arcade game industry with EVR Race, designed by first game designer Genyo Takeda. Along with several other titles, Nintendo started out with some success, but in 1981, the release of Donkey Kong, designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, increased Nintendo’s profits exponentially. The success of the game along with many licensing opportunities provided Nintendo a huge boost in money, and the game also introduced a visualization of Mario, the mascot of Nintendo. Back then

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    So how did all of this begin? Let us go back to a time where change needed to happen to the flow of digital entertainment. In the year 1993, a new arcade cabinet just made it’s way to the arcades and is getting played more and more every single day. That game was called Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game on the arcade that would soon debut on home consoles. “But that sounds very similar to Street Fighter 2”, some people may ask right now, “what was so special about Mortal

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    real life? So how did all of this begin? Let us go back to a time where change needed to happen to the flow of digital entertainment. In the year 1993, a new arcade cabinet just made it’s way to the arcades and is getting played more and more every single day. That game was called Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game on the arcade that would soon debut on home consoles. “But that sounds very similar to Street Fighter 2”, some people may ask right now, “what was so special about Mortal Kombat

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