History of Video Games

seer writes "There's a nice history of videogames over at GameSpot. It starts with pre-videogame activity in 1889 with the Marufuku Company (later Nintendo) and stretches to the recently released GameCube-DVD system." Hey, it's sunday. No reason to knock yourself out reading the works of ancient philosophers (unless you're taking Ancient Philosophers 230 and have an exam this week).

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But Plato already covered this!

[hrieke]

With his discussion about caves and shadows and the perfect form.
As Plato said, we are nothing but imperfect shadows from the ideal form, which is in this cave, cast from the light from the perfect fire.
So all we have to do is find this cave and we can play the perfect video game.
...waka-waka-waka...

heh

[Sk3lt]

"Marufuku Company (later Nintendo)"

No wonder they changed their name, but then again if they kept it maybe they wouldn't be accused of being a kiddie company ;)

Re:The World Trade Center apparently never existed

[imuffin]

No, this is a really good idea!

Remember when you were a little kid, and your friends would do things to annoy you? Eventually, you learned that if you ignore them instead of reacting, they would leave you alone, because they didn't get the reaction they wanted.

America is remembering the lessons we learned as little kids. Instead of getting all huffy-puffy about the buildings being knocked down, we'll just completely erase all memories of them!

Bin Laden: Haha, America! I knocked your shit down!
America: Huh? There were never any buildings there in the first place. Notice this flight simulator from 2000. There are just blank spots where you claim there were some "buildings."
Bin Laden (exasperated): I... HATE... YOU!!!!

Clearly, we can win by not giving him the satisfaction of thinking he did anything.