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Angry Pixels: 50 years of video game history
- Angry Pixels The first 50 years of video games Jonas Heide Smith jonas@autofire.dk @jonassmith
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- The first 50 5000 years of video games
- Games!?
- Galaga (1981) Galaxian (1979) Space Invaders (1978) Gorf (1981)
- Defender (1980) Asteroids (1979)
- Space Panic (1980) Donkey Kong (1981) Mario Bros. (1983)
- “Everybody loves Pac- Man - and every decent Pac-Man fan has Pac- Man carpets on the floor, Pac-Man curtains at the windows, sleeps in a Pac- Man pyjamas and dries himself in Pac-Man The Pac-Man Show (ABC, 1982-1983) towels.”
- Balance of Power (1985, 1990 version shown)
- “Instead of putting funny little creatures on your screen, we put you inside our stories... All words. No pictures.”
- King’s Quest (1984)
- Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1987)
- Maniac Mansion (1987)
- Elite (1984)
- Sid Meier’s Pirates! (1987)
- Little Computer People (1985)
- Tetris (1984)
- Nintendo Entertainment System (1985, USA)
- SEGA Mega Drive (1988)
- 7th Guest (1993)
- Phantasmagoria (1995)
- Mortal Kombat (1992)
- Mortal Kombat offers “children exciting new ways to maim, dismember, and murder unsavory opponents in a sadistic martial-arts tournament" where "it is considered a mark of success… to rip the head and spine out of an opponent and wave it in the air while the blood flows to the ground" Montreal Gazette 7 Aug. 1994
- DOOM (1993)
- Night Trap (1992)
- Ultima Online (1997)
- Grand Theft Auto (2001)
- “Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it’s okay to diss people because they are a woman, they’re a different colour or they’re from a different place.” Hillary Clinton, 2005
- Guitar Hero (2005)
- Wii (2006)
- iPhone (2007)
- iShoot (2008)
- Canabalt (2009)
- Wordfeud (2010)
- Angry Birds (2010)
- Limbo (2010)
- What now?
- What now?
- Games Film 500 467 375 250 125 0 5 2007 1%...
- “Games differ from other funding-entitled art forms, since they are more about movement and action than about language.” Carina Christensen, 2001 (in email)
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