Brief History of Action Games

Video games are da bomb

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1. A Brief History of!
   @iamsamsterdam ! Github: SamanthaRadocchia!
   

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2. Pinball!
   

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3. Pinball!
   This shit was cool
   from 1947 – 1970. !
   

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4. Pinball!
   NO XBOX?! WTF?!
   

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5. Pinball!
   Meanwhile, While
   these fools were
   trying to be
   Pinball Wizards…!
   

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6. Spacewar!
   Video Games.!
   !
   " " " "Boom. !
   !
   

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7. Spacewar!
   yo man this shit is way cooler
   than pinball!
   

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8. Pong!
   The first commercially
   successful video game !
   

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9. Pong!
   Ted Dabney, Nolan Bushnell, Fred Marincic, and Al
   Alcorn – before Steve Jobs stole their shit !
   

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10. Pong!
    Pong was cool. Except
    you needed a friend to
    play it… So obvi not
    many developers at the
    time could play it !
    

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11. Breakout !
    Breakout was the solution to that problem. Single
    player hell yeah! !
    

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12. Breakout !
    •   Released  in  1976  for  the  arcade.  
    •   Concept  by  Nolan  Bushnell  and  Steve  
    Bristow,  designed  by  Steve  Wozniak  
    •   Created  for  Atari  Inc.    
    

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13. Breakout !
    Steve  Jobs  also  got  in  on  the  fun.    
    

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14. SPACE
    INVADERS!
    Breakout  laid  the  foundaGon  for  space  invaders  and  
    all  subsequent  acGon  video  games/compuGng  in  
    general.  Badass.    
    

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