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You learn a lot about people when you play games with them. — Laura Moncur, Pick Me! 02-11-09

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Introduction¹

The Specialist (YouTube Channel)
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Dictionary

game : (a) a physical or mental competition conducted according to rules with the participants in direct opposition to each other (b) a division of a larger contest — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Thesaurus

Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords

Encyclopedia

Game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment. Key components of games are goals, rules, challenge, and interaction. Games generally involve mental or physical stimulation, and often both. Many games help develop practical skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational or psychological role. — Wikipedia

Game (Encyclopædia Britannica)

The Online Guide to Traditional Games (James Masters, TradGames)

Games Portal (Wikipedia)
Outline of Games (Wikipedia)

Games and Puzzles (Wolfram Alpha)

Video Game, or computer game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset. Video games are typically categorized according to their hardware platform, which traditionally includes arcade video games, console games, and computer games (which includes LAN games, online games, and browser games). Video games are also classified into a wide range of genres based on their style of gameplay and target audience. — Wikipedia

Video Games Portal (Wikipedia)
Outline of Video Games (Wikipedia)
Video Games: Category (Wikipedia)

Video Games (Wolfram Alpha)

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Adventures

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Preservation

History

The Online Guide to Traditional Games (James Masters, TradGames)
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Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After its initial creation, Spacewar! was expanded further by other students and employees of universities in the area, including Dan Edwards and Peter Samson. — Wikipedia

Learn about Spacewar!

Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (Stewart Brand, Rolling Stone)
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The Story of Spacewar! (Computer History Museum)
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Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titles—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master—which were released commercially for a range of personal computers beginning in 1980. In Zork, the player explores the abandoned Great Underground Empire in search of treasure. The player moves between the game’s hundreds of locations and interacts with objects by typing commands in natural language that the game interprets. The program acts as a narrator, describing the player’s location and the results of the player’s commands. It has been described as the most famous piece of interactive fiction. — Wikipedia

Learn about Zork

The Enduring Legacy of Zork (Elizabeth Woyke, MIT Technology Review)
The Rise and Fall of Adventure Games (Digital Game Museum)

Play Zork

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (PCjs Machines)
Zork (Parchment)

Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. It was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn’s work and decided to manufacture the game. Pong was the first commercially successful video game, and it helped to establish the video game industry along with the Magnavox Odyssey. — Wikipedia

Learn about Pong

50 Years of Fun With Pong (Dag Spicer, Computer History Museum)

Play Pong

Pong Game (Pong Game.org)

Pac-Man, originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called “Power Pellets” causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to also eat the ghosts for bonus points. — Wikipedia

Learn about Pac-Man

Pac-Man at 40: The Eating Icon that Changed Gaming History (Jacopo Prisco, CNN)
30th Anniversary of PAC-MAN (Google)

Play Pac-Man

Pac-Man 2 (mass:werk – media environments)
Pac-Man (Google)