In the year 1958, a scientist named William Higinbotham who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. ... This new technology allowed users to take video games home with them and plug them straight into their own television sets. The gaming console that is considered to be the first at-home system would be the "Brown Box ". The Brown Box was a prototype for the first multiplayer video game program that was created by invented by Ralph Baer and his colleagues at Sanders Associates, Inc. ... With the development of the X-box and Play Station, video game consoles will never b...

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Starting of with Atari that had simple games like pong and pacman to the extremely advance consoles like PS2 and X-BOX. ... What better way to fulfill that dream then to play a game like Dungeons and Dragons , which whisks you back to that era and with the realism on the new consoles, it almost like you right there. ...

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Bill Gates was showing off his new baby. ... He pulled a black shroud off a table and there was the machine, a shiny chrome box in the shape of the letter X, with a big green jewel in its center. ... The shiny box that Mr. ... The X-Man Until the Xbox, few people outside the industry knew much about Mr. ... Blackley has a knack for getting people excited about new technology; he argued that equipping the game machine with the best technology from PCs would lead to the creation of new kinds of artistic expression. ...

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Video Game Developers are always working on a very complex process in creating a new game. ... The responsibilities of a play tester are to test new video games for playability to see whether the games work right to the requirements of the Customer. ... The programmer should have an in-depth training in graphics, operating systems, business application and platform (PC/MAC) and game console (Nintendo 64/ X Box/ PS2). ... Video Game Developers job will always be on demand and there might be some changes occurring in the job such as new and more easier ways to make a game as technology progresse...

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This stage provides the tools for packaging the creation for different platforms, e.g. for X-box or Playstation2. ... The Networked method is relatively new to the industry, but online game networks are gaining popularity fast. ...

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