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Vol XXXV No. 14

Friday, September 14, 2001

  Bring It On!
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony vie for time in front of your television.
By GORDON STRICKLAND
Assistant Scene Editor

We have definitely come a long way since Willy Higinbotham, hero to all children and enemy to all parents hoping to spend quality time with their children, created the first video game ever in 1958. We were amazing with such ... [more]


30 years of rotting your brain — a video game system retrospective.
By C. SPENCER BEGGS
Associate Scene Editor

In 1972, the earliest whispers of the technological revolution began to reach the home entertainment market when Magnavox released the first home video game system known as the Odyssey. Interestingly enough, the Odyssey was not even considered a computer by the ... [more]