A Brief History Of Arcade Games
Thursday, February 24th, 2011People have liked to play games since ancient times. Games have become a bigger part of people's lives. In 1971 the first arcade game come along and it was this game's destiny to tremendously change the way people play games. Galaxy game was the original coin video game in an arcade. It was at Stanford University; this game never went commercial. Computer Space was the original commercial arcade game. It was a bit hard to play and didn't do very well in sales, but then Pong jumped into the game and it was a quick success. Pong was kind of like an arcade version of ping-pong because there was a virtual paddle that the players used to hit the ball to and fro until someone missed.
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