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Space Race (video game)

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Space Race is an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc. and released on July 16, 1973. [1]

37 relations: Allan Alcorn, ANALOG Computing, Apress, Arcade game, Atari, Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit family, Atari, Inc., Black and white, Computer History Museum, Computer Space, Diode, Electronic component, Freeway (video game), Frogger, Gotcha (video game), Greenwood Publishing Group, Home video game console, Internet Archive, Magnavox Odyssey, Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, Midway Games, MIT Press, Monaural, Multiplayer video game, Nolan Bushnell, Nutting Associates, Pong, Quarter (United States coin), Racing video game, Ralph H. Baer, Raster graphics, Routledge, Taito, Ted Dabney, Video game clone, Video game industry.

Allan Alcorn

Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948 in San Francisco) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.

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ANALOG Computing

ANALOG Computing (an acronym for Atari Newsletter And Lots Of Games) was an American computer magazine devoted to the Atari 8-bit home computer line, published from 1981 until 1989.

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Apress

Apress Media LLC is a publisher of information technology books, based in New York City.

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Arcade game

An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.

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Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.

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Atari 2600

The Atari 2600 (or Atari Video Computer System before November 1982) is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on September 11, 1977, it is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and games contained on ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.

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Atari 8-bit family

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 and manufactured until 1992.

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Atari, Inc.

Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.

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Black and white

Black and white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, and hyphenated black-and-white when used as an adjective, is any of several monochrome forms in visual arts.

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Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, US.

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Computer Space

Computer Space is a space combat arcade game developed in 1971 as one of the last games created in the early history of video games.

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Diode

A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance); it has low (ideally zero) resistance in one direction, and high (ideally infinite) resistance in the other.

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Electronic component

An electronic component is any basic discrete device or physical entity in an electronic system used to affect electrons or their associated fields.

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Freeway (video game)

Freeway is a video game designed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 video game console.

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Frogger

Frogger is a 1981 arcade game developed by Konami.

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Gotcha (video game)

Gotcha is an arcade game developed by Atari and released in October 1973.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.

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Home video game console

A home video game console, or simply home console, is a video game device that is primarily used for home gamers, as opposed to in arcades or some other commercial establishment.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Magnavox Odyssey

The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console.

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Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is devoted to a huge collection of coin-operated animatronic dummies, mechanical games and other oddities.

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Midway Games

Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and commonly known as Midway) was an American video game developer and publisher.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally or over the internet.

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Nolan Bushnell

Nolan Kay Bushnell (born February 5, 1943) is an American electrical engineer and businessman.

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Nutting Associates

Nutting Associates was an arcade game manufacturer based in Mountain View, California, incorporated in February 1967 by William Gilbert Nutting.

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Pong

Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games.

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Quarter (United States coin)

The quarter, short for quarter dollar, is a United States coin worth 25 cents, one-fourth of a dollar.

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Racing video game

The racing video game genre is the genre of video games, either in the first-person or third-person perspective, in which the player partakes in a racing competition with any type of land, water, air or space vehicles.

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Ralph H. Baer

Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-born American inventor, game developer, and engineer.

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Raster graphics

In computer graphics, a raster graphics or bitmap image is a dot matrix data structure that represents a generally rectangular grid of pixels (points of color), viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Taito

is a Japanese video game developer and publisher of arcade hardware and mobile phones, and an operator of video arcades.

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Ted Dabney

Samuel Frederick "Ted" Dabney Jr. (May 2, 1937 – May 26, 2018) was an American electrical engineer, and the co-founder, alongside Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, Inc. He is recognized as developing the basics of video circuitry principles that were used for Computer Space and later Pong, one of the first and most successful arcade games.

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Video game clone

A video game clone is either a video game (or series) which is very similar to or heavily inspired by a previous popular game or series.

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Video game industry

The video game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of video games.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_(video_game)

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