10 interesting facts about video games
- In 1971, Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was the first commercially-sold, coin-operated video game.
- The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in August 1976.
- In 2005 Sony hired painters which draw 7 walls in different towns of USA as an advertisement of Playstation Portable.
- The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms.
- The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, spawning the video game industry.
- Producers of Sega’s Space Channel 5 had a court examination with one lady, because of the character in the game was very alike her look - of course, she lost the hearing.
- Thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (30%) than boys age 17 or younger (23%).
- The president of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime worked in Pizza Hut (this is what means “being smart”!)
- On March 6, 2009, Nintendo announced that it had shipped its 100-millionth Nintendo DS system.
- The score record of all times in Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points.
