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the only art form where losing is part of the design.
means interactive software that turns rules and pixels into play, competition, or story you control.
from born in 1958 with tennis for two, a blip on an oscilloscope at brookhaven national lab, decades before anyone called it an industry.
bigger than hollywoodglobal games revenue dwarfs film and music combined
first bugspacewar had a crash exploit in 1962
longest developmentduke nukem forever took fourteen years to ship
accidental arttetris was built to test soviet-era hardware
for instance
pong — atari, 1972, launched the arcade business overnight
minecraft — sold over 300 million copies since 2011
world of warcraft — peaked at 12 million subscribers in 2010
elden ring — from software, 2022, sold 20 million in a year