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The history of video games
Just over fifty years ago, a young American engineer by the name of Ralph Baer was asked to build the best-ever television set. Baer was very talented and he didn’t find the task difficult. He had wanted to go further than his original objective and incorporate some kind of game into the TV set. Unfortunately, however, his superiors turned down the idea and he never got the chance. Two decades later, Ralph Baer’s idea, which had seemed unrealistic in the 1950s, became a reality. A team of engineers carried on his work, and in 1972 they produced the first video games. These were extremely simple by today’s standards. The first video tennis game, for example, consisted of one short white line on either side of the black screen and a white dot moving from side to side to represent the ball. The simplicity of these early games would not be satisfying enough for today’s more sophisticated consumers. Since the 1970s, computer games have been getting more and more complicated. The graphics are more realistic because they are computer-generated, and a great deal more money is spent on them by both customers and manufacturers. The games have also become more violent; in fact, they are often blamed for the rise in teenage violence in some countries. And what about the companies involved in developing computer games? You might be surprised to find out that Atari, in spite of its Japanese-sounding name, is actually an American company; that it was an American, too, who set up the Japanese company Sega; and that Nintendo, despite its modern image, has been trading for more than a hundred years.

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