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Encyclopedia > 1973 in video gaming

See also: 1972 in video gaming, other events of 1973, 1974 in video gaming, history of video games


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Science Fair Projects - History of computer and video games (6116 words)
The game is loosely based around table tennis: two players each control a "paddle" which has the freedom to move up and down at their end of the "court".
The game ran on PDP-10 mainframes, and was an unlicensed implementation of the new role playing game Dungeons and Dragons, and described the movements of a multi-player party through a monster-inhabited dungeon.
Video games were found on cartridges in the second generation of home video games.
Manually programmable video gaming system - Patent 4355805 (6987 words)
The electronic game devices represented by these patents are multiple game attachments for video displays or television receivers and have electrical circuitry for generating signals which cause the display of game playing indicia such as walls and moveable players and spots or balls.
Game variables are restricted to the speed of the balls, the position of the players and similar game variations.
In the video game and drawing modes of operation the background on the video display is a grey color caused by partially unblanking the beam of the display.
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