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Appendix B. The History of Games

• From Senet to Space War

• From Space War to Pong

• From Pong to Pac-Man

• The Video Game Comes Home

• Games Invade Computers

• Web-Based Computer Games

• Further Reading

Imagine a world without computer games. It’s not that hard considering the first computer game, Space War, was created in 1962. Then it wasn’t until the 1970s that the general public could play the first video games.

Imagine being the person to create the first computer game. There was little inspiration to draw on. Today, we can look back on countless video games and home computer games. Almost everything we create is a derivative of something out of the past.

That ...