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By Safwat Saleem

A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES

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Video games are everywhere these days, but where did they actually come from? The history of video games is a complicated story that involves giant computers in science labs, the founder of Chuck E. Cheese and billions of dollars in quarters. Safwat Saleem examines the evolution of the beloved world of gaming.

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Invader, interaction, a cathode-ray tube amusement device, refer to, competition, feature, put on the map, kick off, response, rank, milestone, spread, carpenter, mistreat, steal, assume, rescue, damsel, distress, gain, decline, merely.

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a) Evolution of video games has spread across _____, _____, computers, _____ phones, and all kinds of other _____.

b) In fact, the earliest U.S. video game _____ on record was in 1948, and at the time it was ______ to as a cathode-ray tube _____ device.

c) In 1972, Baer's idea to get video games out of the _____ _____ and into the _____led to the _____of a game console called Odyssey.

d) Atari then released a _____ _____ of Pong in 1974.

e) By 1978, _____ between Atari and another game company called Midway was _____ up.

f) In response, Atari followed with the _____ of the arcade game _____, which _____ sixth on the list of highest _____ arcade games.

g) Donkey Kong was the _____ video game to have a _____ _____.

h) Double Dragon was the first really _____ example of the _____ genre.

i) While _____ games continued to _____ in _____ over the years, the popularity of video games was _____ beginning.

After watching:

1 Match the words in A with the words in B:

2 Answer the questions:

a) What is a video game?

b) Where were video games actually made?

c) What are the names of the earliest video games?

d) Who is known as the “father of video games”?

e) What led to the release of a game console called Odyssey?

f) Who uses video games?

g) What was Atari's first major game release in 1972?

h) What game became the second highest selling arcade game of all time?

i) When did color come to arcade games?

j) Who created Pac-Man?

k) How was Pac-Man originally called?

l) Which game did a company called Nintendo release in 1981?

m) What is Donkey Kong about?

n) What was Jumpman eventually renamed to?

o) What did Double Dragon feature?

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3 Decide if the statements are true or false:

a) In fact, the earliest U.K. video game patent on record was in 1948.

b) Early video games were not sold to the public because they were either too huge or too expensive to get out of the lab.

c) The video game Odyssey was an immediate hit, and it's credited as the first commercially successful video game.

d) Damsel in distress is a very common storyline in video games.

e) Important to the spread of video games into popular culture, Pac-Man was a character that could not be licensed.

f) In just a year, Pac-Man arcade games made over one thousand dollars in quarters.

g) Perhaps the best iconic game considered to be part of the Golden Age of Arcade Games is Double Dragon.

h) By the mid-80s, the Golden Age of Arcade Games was coming to an end, and the home game console was gaining in popularity.

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