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#32 While games such as Doom, Marathon, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and GoldenEye 007 may have defined the first-person shooter genre, the first documented 'first-person shooter 3D multiplayer networked game' was called Spasim (space + simulation = Spasim). It appeared in 1974 and could be played by up to 32 people. If gaming history's your thing, why not check outthis lengthy documentby Spasim creator, Jim Bowery.
#33 The world's first fully-rendered videogame was Donkey Kong Country for the SNES.
#34 In 1974 the makers of the Magnavox Odyssey console filed a lawsuit against Atari, insisting that Pong had infringed a patent it held on the concept of a tennis video game. This was the first case relating to intellectual property in the gaming industry. Atari settled out of court for $700,000 after Magnavox proved that Atari boss Nolan Bushnell had actually seen the Odyssey's table tennis game at a trade show that pre-dated Pong.
#35 The first slogan used by gaming colossus Electronic Arts when it was founded in 1982 was the completely lame ass "We see farther."
#36 Before becoming the self-indulgent king of waffling dialogue, the first game that Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima worked on was Konami's 1986 waddling masterpiece, Penguin Adventure. Kojima was credited as assistant director.
#37 Jumping is a pretty fundamental ability for many game characters. Unsurprisingly, the first avatar bestowed with this magical skill was a frog in the inspirationally titled 1978 side-scrolling arcade game, Frogs.
#38 The first print ad for the Sega Genesis appeared in the US in 1989. What did it look like? Well, you can see it on this very page.
#39 Atari's first arcade machines were built in an old roller skating rink and assembled by - so the story goes - pot-smoking students and hippies. Happy days.
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