COMM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Video Game Industry, Multiplayer Video Game, Dish Network
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The pinball machine is a coin-operated game in which a player scores points by causing metal balls to move in certain directions (often using flippers) inside a glass-covered case. These games were made popular by david gottlieb beginning in the early 1930s at entertainment arcades which were commercial locations featuring coin- operated machines such as pinball machines, fortune tellers, and shooting games. As the internet began to be used by more and more academics in the 1980s, it too became a location for playing games. People even figured out how to use internet bulletin boards, in which many users but send messages to one another, as a place where many people could share a game. Multiplayer computer games that combined elements of chat rooms and fantasy role-playing games, such as dungeons & dragons, emerged as extremely popular in these environments, and the games became known as multi-user dungeons (muds).
