Friday 24 May 2013

GAMES

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  • Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982. That comes to $800 million in revenues!
  • The first all-computer championship was held in New York in 1970, and was won by CHESS 3.0-a program written by Slate, Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University, Illinois.
  • In Spring 1967, MacHACK VI became the first chess program to beat a human, at the Massachussets State Chess Championship.
  • The Sega Dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128-bit architecture.
  • On 22nd November, 1966, a USSR chess programme began a corre-spondence match with the Kotok-McCarthy MIT chess program. The match lasted 9 months and was won by the Soviet computer, with 3 wins and 1 loss.
  • In 1968, International Master David Levy made a $3,000 bet with John McCarthy, researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, that no chess computer would beat him in 10 years. He won his bet!
  • In 1978, Atari Football became the first arcade game to use a track ball.
  • Sony released a matte black version of its PlayStation in 1997, which enabled programmers to create their own video games in the C programming language. It was called Net Yaroze.
  • Mario, one of the best known video game characters, was named after Nintendo's landlord.
  • Playstation 2 hit the shelves in Japan on March 4, 2000, and sold 98,000 units in four hours.
  • In 1988, Deep Thought and Grandmaster Tony Miles shared first place in the US Open chess championship.
  • Did you know that an estimated 1 lakh copies of the PlayStation game Tiger Woods 99 were recalled after The Spirit of Christmas, a clip in which Jesus Christ and Santa Claus get into fistfight over the true meaning of Christmas, was discovered in a hidden file on the CD-ROM? The recall was necessitated due to the fact that the clip was unauthorised and was full of expletives
  • The most expensive game ever developed was ShenMue for Sega Dreamcast. It cost $20 million.
  • PacMan got its name from the Japanese word "pacu", meaning "to munch". Since "pacu" is pronounced the same as "f— you", only with a 'p' sound, its name was changed to "PacMan".





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