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76 relations: All Media Network, Arcade game, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari, Inc., Byte, Central processing unit, Christmas and holiday season, Creative Computing (magazine), Danny Goodman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game), Ed Logg, Electronic Games, Focal Press, Future plc, Gamasutra, Game Informer, GameStop, Glossary of video game terms, Goldman Sachs, Greenwood Publishing Group, Ian Bogost, IGN, InfoWorld, J. C. Penney, Jawbreaker (video game), Joystick, Jr. Pac-Man, Kilobyte, Kmart, List of best-selling video games, List of maze video games, List of Pac-Man clones, List of video games notable for negative reception, Magnavox Odyssey², Market-based valuation, Maze, Microprocessor, MIT Press, MOS Technology 6507, Motherboard, Ms. Pac-Man, Munchkin (video game), Namco, Namco Pac-Man, Next Generation (magazine), Nick Montfort, Pac-Man, Persistence of vision, Philips, ..., Phosphorescence, Preliminary injunction, Random House, Random-access memory, Ray Kassar, Read-only memory, ROM cartridge, Sears, Sierra Entertainment, Snopes.com, Softalk, Spawning (gaming), Sprite (computer graphics), Steven L. Kent, The Miami News, Three Rivers Press, Time (magazine), Time Inc., Tod Frye, United States dollar, Video (magazine), Video game console, Video game crash of 1983, Wired (magazine), Wraparound (video games), Zilog Z80. Expand index (26 more) »
All Media Network
All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.
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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 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 5200
The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a home video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc.
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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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Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits, representing a binary number.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.
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Christmas and holiday season
The Christmas season, also called the festive season, or the holiday season (mainly in the U.S. and Canada; often simply called the holidays),, is an annually recurring period recognized in many Western and Western-influenced countries that is generally considered to run from late November to early January.
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Creative Computing (magazine)
Creative Computing was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution.
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Danny Goodman
Danny Goodman is a computer programmer, technology consultant, and an award-winning author of over three dozen books and hundreds of magazine articles on computer-related topics.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (also referred to simply as E.T.) is a 1982 adventure video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 video game console.
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Ed Logg
George Edward "Ed" Logg (born 1948 in Seattle) is a retired American arcade video game designer, first employed at Atari and later at Atari Games.
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Electronic Games
Electronic Games was the first dedicated video game magazine published in the United States and ran from October 15, 1981 to 1997 under different titles.
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Focal Press
Focal Press is a publisher of media technology books and it is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.
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Future plc
Future plc is a British media company founded in 1985.
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Gamasutra
Gamasutra is a website founded in 1997 that focuses on all aspects of video game development.
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Game Informer
Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles.
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GameStop
GameStop Corp. (known simply as GameStop) is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer.
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Glossary of video game terms
This is a glossary of video game terms which lists the general terms as commonly used in Wikipedia articles related to video games and its industry.
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Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.
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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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Ian Bogost
Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer.
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IGN
IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.
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InfoWorld
InfoWorld (formerly The Intelligent Machines Journal) is an information technology media business.
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J. C. Penney
J.
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Jawbreaker (video game)
Jawbreaker is a Pac-Man clone programmed by John Harris and released in 1982 for the Atari 8-bit family by On-Line Systems.
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Joystick
A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.
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Jr. Pac-Man
Jr.
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Kilobyte
The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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Kmart
Kmart Corporation (simply known as Kmart and stylized as kmart) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States.
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List of best-selling video games
This is a list of the best-selling video games of all time.
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List of maze video games
Maze game is a video game genre description first used by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field was a maze.
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List of Pac-Man clones
In video gaming, Pac-Man clones are unauthorized versions of Namco's popular maze chase arcade game Pac-Man or games that wholesale borrow the design of Pac-Man.
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List of video games notable for negative reception
The following video games are noted for their negative reception.
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Magnavox Odyssey²
The Magnavox Odyssey², also known as Philips Odyssey² is a second generation home video game console released in 1978.
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Market-based valuation
A Market-based valuation is a form of stock valuation that refers to market indicators, also called extrinsic criteria (i.e. not related to economic fundamentals and account data, which are intrinsic criteria).
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Maze
A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor that incorporates the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit (IC), or at most a few integrated circuits.
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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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MOS Technology 6507
The 6507 is an 8-bit microprocessor from MOS Technology, Inc. It is essentially a 6502 chip in a smaller, cheaper 28-pin package.
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Motherboard
A motherboard (sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, baseboard, planar board or logic board, or colloquially, a mobo) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) found in general purpose microcomputers and other expandable systems.
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Ms. Pac-Man
Ms.
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Munchkin (video game)
Munchkin is cartridge number 38 in the official Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac.
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Namco
is a Japanese corporation that operates game centers and theme parks, but is best known for its previous identity as a video game developer and publisher.
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Namco Pac-Man
The Namco Pac-Man was an 8-bit arcade game system board that was first used by Namco in 1980; the second and third games to run on it, Rally-X and New Rally-X, were modified to support a larger color palette and scrolling.
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Next Generation (magazine)
Next Generation (also known as NextGen) was a video game magazine that was published by Imagine Media (now Future Network USA).
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Nick Montfort
Nick Montfort is a professor of digital media at MIT in Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
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Pac-Man
, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.
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Persistence of vision
Persistence of vision refers to the optical illusion that occurs when visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased to enter the eye.
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Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Philips, stylized as PHILIPS) is a Dutch multinational technology company headquartered in Amsterdam currently focused in the area of healthcare.
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Phosphorescence
Phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence.
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Preliminary injunction
A preliminary injunction, in equity, is an injunction entered by a court prior to a final determination of the merits of a legal case, in order to restrain a party from going ahead with a course of conduct or compelling a party to continue with a course of conduct until the case has been decided.
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Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.
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Random-access memory
Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used.
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Ray Kassar
Raymond Edward Kassar (January 2, 1928 – December 10, 2017) was president, and later CEO, of Atari Inc. from 1978 to 1983.
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Read-only memory
Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.
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ROM cartridge
A ROM cartridge, sometimes referred to simply as a cartridge or cart, is a removable enclosure containing ROM designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console and to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.
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Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Company, colloquially known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in 1892, reincorporated (a formality for a history-making consumer sector initial public offering) by Richard Sears and new partner Julius Rosenwald in 1906.
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Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and later Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher based in Bellevue, Washington.
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Snopes.com
Snopes.com, formally known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is one of the first online fact-checking websites.
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Softalk
Softalk was an American magazine of the early 1980s that focused on the Apple II computer.
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Spawning (gaming)
In video games, spawning is the live creation of a character, item or mob.
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Sprite (computer graphics)
In computer graphics, a sprite is a two-dimensional bitmap that is integrated into a larger scene.
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Steven L. Kent
Steven L. Kent, (born on August 28, 1960) is the son of woodworker Ron Kent, is an American writer, known for both video game journalism and military science fiction novels.
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The Miami News
The Miami News was an evening newspaper in Miami, Florida.
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Three Rivers Press
Three Rivers Press is the trade paperback imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Time Inc.
Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.
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Tod Frye
Tod R. Frye is a computer programmer once employed by Atari, and is most notable for being charged with the home adaptation of Pac-Man for the Atari 2600 video computer system, which, while reputedly the top selling title for that system, is popularly claimed to have been a factor in both Atari Inc.'s downfall and the North American video game crash of 1983.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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Video (magazine)
Video is a discontinued American consumer electronics magazine that was published from 1977 to 1999 by Reese Communications with a focus on video and audio devices.
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Video game console
A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.
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Video game crash of 1983
The video game crash of 1983 (known as the Atari shock in Japan) was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in North America, because of market saturation.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wraparound (video games)
Wraparound, in video games, is a gameplay variation on the single-screen in which space is finite but unbounded; objects leaving one side of the screen immediately reappear on the opposite side, maintaining speed and trajectory.
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Zilog Z80
The Z80 CPU is an 8-bit based microprocessor.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(Atari_2600)
