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Initial games
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The spread of games
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A new industry
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Interactive visual games
Stored-program computersRead from or written toRotary telephoneVisualsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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Overview
- History of video games
- Electronic games Electronic game
- Video gaming Video game
- Arcade video games Arcade game
- Video game console
- Computer games PC game
- Modern culture Popular culture
- Interactive Interactivity
- Pong
- First generation of video game consoles
- Magnavox Odyssey
- Cathode-ray tube amusement device
- Bertie the Brain
- Nimrod Nimrod (computer)
- Bouncing ball program Bouncing Ball (computer program)
- Human–computer interaction
- Sandy Douglas
- OXO OXO (video game)
- Christopher Strachey
- Checkers Checkers (1952 video game)
- Stanley Gill
- Cathode-ray tube
- Tennis for Two
- Oscilloscope
- Spacewar!
- Video game industry
- Computer Space
Defining the video game
- Liquid crystal display
- Vector-scan Vector graphics
- Teletype Teleprinter
- Game & Watch
- Tiger Electronics
- Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr.
- DuMont Laboratories
- Alan Turing
- David Champernowne D. G. Champernowne
- Turochamp
Initial games
- Colossus Colossus computer
- ENIAC
- World War II
- Allied Allies of World War II
- Stored program architectures Von Neumann architecture
- University of Manchester
- Manchester Mark 1
- University of Cambridge
- EDSAC
- University of Pennsylvania
- EDVAC
- Princeton University
- IAS machine
- Remington Rand
- Ferranti
- IBM
- Artificial intelligence
- Tic-tac-toe
- Josef Kates
- Canadian National Exhibition
- Vacuum tube
- Additron tube
- Rogers Majestic Rogers Vacuum Tube Company
- Festival of Britain
- Nim
- Nimatron
- Edward Condon
- Westinghouse Electric Westinghouse Electric Corporation
- New York World's Fair 1939 New York World's Fair
- Checkers Checkers (video game)
Interactive visual games
- Stored-program computers
- Read from or written to Random-access memory
- Rotary telephone Rotary dial
- Visuals Video game graphics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Whirlwind I
- University of Michigan
- Tennis
- William Higinbotham
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Analog computer
- TX-0
- Tech Model Railroad Club
- Alan Kotok
- Peter Samson
- Light pen
- Carnegie Mellon University
The spread of games
- DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
- PDP-1
- Steve Russell Steve Russell (computer scientist)
- Science fiction
- Lensman series
- Gamepad
- Smoke test Smoke testing (software)
- Marienbad Marienbad (video game)
- Odra 1003 Odra (computer)
- Westchester County, New York
- The Sumerian Game
- Strategy video games Strategy video game
- Edutainment Educational entertainment
- Mabel Addis
- BASIC
- John Kemeny John G. Kemeny
- 1967 World Series
- Space Travel Space Travel (video game)
- Ken Thompson
- Multics
- Unix
- Operating system
- Hamurabi Hamurabi (video game)
- FOCAL FOCAL (programming language)
- David H. Ahl
- Early mainframe games
- Mainframe computers Mainframe computer
A new industry
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Nodes151
Edges150
Triples5
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013245
Components1
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game games computer video first time created display research early developed computers new program electronic arcade spacewar would interactive simulation
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Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| artificial intelligence | instance of | research programs in fields | 0.80 | text |
| and demonstration programs intended to impress or entertain the public | instance of | research programs in fields | 0.80 | text |
| The Management Game | instance of | and had also sparked the creation of business management simulation games | 0.80 | text |
| which was used in business schools such as at Carnegie Mellon University by 1958 | instance of | and had also sparked the creation of business management simulation games | 0.80 | text |
| the Lensman series | instance of | inspired by science fiction books | 0.80 | text |
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