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- Video games
- revolutionized
- the leisure habits
- of a generation,
- and Nolan
- Bushnell is the
- man who started
- the revolution -
- with Pong. It was
- very primitive, a
- simple to-and-fro
- on a black-and-
- white screen, but
- it was the first
- video game
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- Pong was soon
- followed by Space
- Invaders - the
- first of the shoot-
- 'em-up games. At
- this stage people
- still had to go to a
- bar or a games
- arcade to play.
- But Atari's home
- entertainment
- system was about
- to change that
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- Atari exploded on
- the games scene
- in 1972. The
- millions of people
- who spent hours
- hunched over
- their games
- consoles pushed
- the company's
- stock sky-high;
- and Bushnell took
- his profits and
- left. Years later
- he returned to
- the scene of his
- great triumph
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- A new generation
- of interactive
- video games will
- take the industry
- into the next
- century. Games
- that rely on voice
- recognition are
- here, while tie-
- ups with the
- movie business
- mean players
- may soon be able
- to star in their
- favorite films
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- PLAY PONG ZAPA
- TO PROGRAMME
- A WORKING
- VERSION OF PONG
- FOR THE USER TO
- PLAY
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