Some interesting facts about the Gaming Industry.

[deathtaker26]

–Shocking facts about the Video Game Industry--

Kingdom Hearts was released in 2002

Halo, Combat evolved was released in 2000

Counter Strike was released in 1999
Half-Life was released in 1998

The video Game industry has been around for about 50 years now.

Pong was not the first video game ever made, Tennis for 2 was.

Tennis for 2 was designed on an analog machine used for reading electric current. Created in 1958

Maze War was the first FPS game ever created,

Super Mario was one of the biggest sales in gaming history.

Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a Card Game company. The image was Nintendo's original logo.

The Magnavox Odyssey was Nintendo's first actual Commercially available Video Game Console.

Nintendo's actual biggest success before the NES was the Nintendo FamiCom or the "Family Computer"

Sega is basically an acronym, short for "Service Games".

Square Enix, the creators of Final Fantasy, to this day STILL don't understand the definition of the word "Final"


[Agoraphobic]

**Objection!!!**


Square (Squaresoft) was the original creator of the Final Fantasy and later merged into Square Enix. It was so named because it was believed to be the final game released by Square, as their company prepared for bankruptcy! Thus the series was born because each Final Fantasy has always successful (albeit different degrees) and is their token game!

[deathtaker26]

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> Square (Squaresoft) was the original creator of the Final Fantasy and later merged into Square Enix. It was so named because it was believed to be the final game released by Square, as their company prepared for bankruptcy! Thus the series was born because each Final Fantasy has always successful (albeit different degrees) and is their token game!

That's interesting. I'd call it "Yet another Fantasy"

[Ancient]

Tennis for two was not the first video game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2E9iSQfGdg

The earliest known interactive electronic game was by [Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_T._Goldsmith_Jr.) and Estle Ray Mann on a [cathode ray tube](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube).^{[[3]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game#cite_note-CRT_game_patent-3)} The patent was filed on January 25, 1947 and issued on December 14, 1948.^{[[3]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game#cite_note-CRT_game_patent-3)} The game was a [missile simulator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_simulator_game) inspired by radar displays from World War II. It used analog circuitry, not digital, to control the CRT beam and position a dot on the screen. Screen overlays were used for targets since graphics could not be drawn at the time.^{[[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game#cite_note-Pong_Story:_Main_Page-1)}

[Ancient]

Not to mention that Magnavox was not owned by Nintendo.

Nintendo actually sued Magnavox in the 70s for copying thier idea

Get your facts straight

[Zetasis]

I saw that on Video Games the Documentary I'm pretty sure.

[deathtaker26]

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Weird, that's not what I read earlier.