MC 2000 Lecture : Video Game Notes
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The best-selling game is call of duty: black ops. million in revenue on its first day. Compare: highest grossing movie of all time was avatar, with million (2009 dollars) at box office or original star wars, with ,284 million (2011 dollars) at box office. (previous best-selling video game earned million on first day) That older game beat the first-day box office record of million at the time. U. s. computer and video game software sales generated . 5 billion in 2009. Sixty-seven percent of american households play computer or video games. They are culturally important: they reflect and influence society. Most media is becoming more interactive, and video games are in the vanguard of technology. Computers are the exhibition point (and more recently also the distribution method) for video games. 1946 eniac, the first general-purpose computer, at u. of pennsylvania. 1950s bell labs invents the transistor (replaced vacuum tubes)
