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Game faces

We have come a long way since the first sports video game back in 1958. Created by physicist William Higinbotham and called Tennis For Two, it was played on an oscilloscope. Why did he make the game? So his mates wouldn’t be bored when they came to see him at work ... What a good mate!

But it would be , 14 long years later, that would grip the world. changed everything. It hit the mainstream like a wildfire. The era of all-nighters with potato chips, pizza and soft drinks had begun. It all seems like an eternity ago now; we should dig up the

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