video games

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/6/2022
  

  50 Years Later, Remembering Pong's Success

  Pong's develper and Atari cofounder Allan Alcorn: "I didn't think the company would last long because most startup companies didn't. And so I thought it would fail after a while, but it'd be a lot of fun."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/5/2022
  

  From "Oregon Trail" to "Uncharted," How Video Games Have Helped Teach History

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  The popularity of immersive historical narratives in video games means they have the ability to engage players deeply – historians need to understand the potential and limits of games for teaching. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/26/2022
  

  What Happens When Kids Get Their History from Video Games?

  Bret Devereaux is trying to lead fellow historians to understand the influence a number of popular strategy games have for students understanding of both historical fact and the "mechanics" of historical change. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/11/2021
  

  Computer Space Launched the Video Game Industry 50 Years Ago. Why Haven't You Heard of It?

  by Noah Wardrip-Fruin

  The first effort at a commercial arcade video game didn't fail because it was too complicated. It couldn't deliver a quality game-playing experience because it relied on technology developed for television instead of the new, but expensive, processors for computers. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/10/2021
  

  Gaming The System: KU Professor Says 'Call Of Duty' Can Help Teach History

  Historians should recognize that many of their students are exposed to views of the past informed by video games and explore how to build on that interest while correcting errors, says University of Kansas historian Andrew Denning. 

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• SOURCE: GamesRadar
  2/15/2021
  

  Red Dead Redemption 2 is Being Used to Teach a University History Course

  The popular Red Dead Redemption series of Western-themed video games are the jumping-off point for University of Tennessee historian Tore Olsson's course on the opening years of the 20th century. 

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• SOURCE: The Drift
  2/2/2021
  

  First-Person Shooter Ideology​: The Cultural Contradictions of Call of Duty

  by Daniel Bessner

  "Right now, this one game is teaching millions of young Americans about the epic struggle between their government and the Soviet Union, a century-defining cataclysm that resulted in tens of millions of deaths, reshaped world history, and engendered the ideological struggles that presently bedevil the public sphere." But the lesson is one of cynical resignation to today's state of endless war. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/18/2020
  

  Netflix’s New Doc Is Like The Last Dance for Gamers

  The six-part High Score is heavy on nostalgia but light on revelations.

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/25/2020
  

  How Games Marketing Invented Toxic Gamer Culture

  How early marketing campaigns for online gaming platforms suggested toxicity isn't a bug, it's a feature.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/4/19
  

  Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the U.S.’s Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

  by Jonathon S. Jones

  Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-10-18
  

  Germany Will Now Allow Some Nazi Symbols in Video Games

  Here's what to know about the history of that ban.

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• SOURCE: Inquirer.net
  9-5-15
  

  ‘Slave Trade’ video game altered after social media backlash

  An educational video game has been edited following a social media backlash over a scene depicting slaves being packed into a ship.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  12-5-14
  

  Crowdsourcing old journals

  Project uses Web participation, video games to digitize documents.

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• SOURCE: Fast Company & Inc
  10-22-14 (accessed)
  

  This company claims its video games about the French Revolution are accurate

  Trois-Rivieres history professor Laurent Turcot sees the potential for video games to introduce students and others to how people lived in the past.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4-12-14
  

  The controversial world of Nazi video games

  by Dennis Scimeca

  A new game proves that developers might want to be more careful with their Nazi-era imagery.

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• SOURCE: New York TImes
  2-27-14
  

  Video Game Uses Japanese War Criminals as Targets

  The game is provocatively titled "Shoot the Devils."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11-13-13
  

  Iran 1979 revolution-based video game to launch

  The new project is directed by Grand Theft Auto creative Navid Khonsari and voiced by Argo and Homeland cast members.

• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  1-17-13
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman: [Video] Blame Games

  Jonathan Zimmerman is a Narberth resident and a professor of history at New York University. He is teaching a course at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus. E-mail: jlzimm@aol.com. ...In Washington, stricter regulation of video games has become a post-Sandy Hook cause du jour. Last week, Vice President Biden convened a high-profile meeting with video-game executives. Some have called for warning labels and other precautions.But we still don't know if playing video games makes users more likely to behave aggressively. Research on the subject is spotty and mixed, and millions of Americans clearly play violent games without becoming violent.For the most part, they also play them in a stationary position. So we shouldn't be surprised that video games are very strongly associated with obesity, especially among the young. In 2011, the World Health Organization named video games the single biggest cause of child obesity.Why would playing video games lead to more weight gain than, say, watching television? Nobody knows, although one recent study suggested an intriguing possibility: Video games make you hungry. Boys who played them were found to consume four times as many calories as they burned off....