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pong to procedural worlds, one long argument about what a game is allowed to be.
means the evolving record of video games as technology, art form, and industry since the 1950s.
from starts arguably with tennis for two on an oscilloscope in 1958, but the coin gets minted with pong in 1972 and the crash of 1983 nearly kills the whole idea before nintendo resurrects it.
first crash1983 atari glut buried games in a landfill
seal of qualitynintendo invented it to rebuild trust
biggest budgetsome aaa games now cost over $300 million
oldest genre debateis tetris even a game or a mirror
for instance
atari 2600 — 1977 console that built the first living-room industry
super mario bros — 1985 launch title that resurrected an entire crashed market
doom 1993 — shareware fps that rewired lan parties and modding culture
minecraft 2011 — indie block game that outsold every aaa franchise combined