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Contra Video Game Is Becoming a Movie and TV Series The original Contra coin-operated arcade game debuted in February 1987, with the incredibly popular Contra Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version being released in 1988. The video game's story is set in the year 2633, when the evil Red Falcon Organization have set a base on the Galuga archipelago near New Zealand in a plot to conquer the world. Two commandos, Pfc. Bill Rizer and Pfc. Lance Bean of the Contra unit, soldiers specializing in guerrilla warfare, are sent to the island to destroy the enemy forces and uncover the true nature of the alien entity controlling them.
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- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII-Released on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in Japan on November 21st 2013 and is due for release in the rest of the world in February 2014. That concludes the release dates of all 'Final Fantasy XIII' games.
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Iran: The Iran-Contra Affair The Iran-Contra Affair. (1985 - 1987) According to the Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair issued in November 1987, the sale of U.S. arms to Iran through Israel began in the summer of 1985, after receiving the approval of President Reagan.
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Contra Video Game Is Becoming a Movie and TV Series Ever since its debut as an action-packed arcade game in 1987, the world famous Contra series has continued to deliver button-mashing fun across multiple platforms such as home systems and mobile devices. The latest game in the popular series is the mobile game, Contra: Return which was released in China
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Resident Evil The survival horror video game Resident Evil made its debut on the PlayStation in 1996, and was later ported to the Sega Saturn. It was a critical and commercial success, leading to the production of two sequels, Resident Evil 2 in 1998 and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis in 1999, both for the PlayStation.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Grand Theft Auto IV. Grand Theft Auto IV is an action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles on  29 April 2008, and for Microsoft Windows on 2 December 2008.
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Atari Consoles My token Coleco Pong-clone is the Telstar Alpha. Released in 1977, this system plays four Pong-like games (tennis, hockey, handball, and jai alai). The only reason I have this console is that it was part of a package deal on eBay that included Coleco Telstar Combat. Together, the two consoles cost me a mere $30.y friend (and Atari collector extrodinaire) Dan Cage gave me an Atari 2600 and a number of games for Christmas in 2002 to help me in my research. I took it a step further and decided to pick up as many 1970s and 1980s home video game consoles as I could afford.
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- The original Xbox console was released in November 2001 (in the United States), and in early 2002 in Europe and Asia. The Xbox is manufactured by Microsoft. Edit
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- In 1979, Activision was created by disgruntled former Atari programmers who realized that the games they had anonymously programmed on their $20K salaries were responsible for 60 percent of the company's $100 million in cartridge sales for one year. It was the first third-party developer of video games. Computer role-playing video games: Akalabeth (1980) was created in the same year as Rogue (1980); Akalabeth led to the creation of its spiritual sequel Ultima (1981). 2  Its sequels were the inspiration for some of the first Japanese role-playing video games, alongside Wizardry (1981).
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Learn About Bronchiectasis Bronchiectasis occurs when the walls of the airways (bronchi) thicken as a result of chronic inflammation and/or infection and results in mucus accumulating. In people with bronchiectasis, the walls of the bronchi become thickened.
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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony  ( 2009) Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (2009) Action, Adventure, Comedy | Video game released 29 October 2009. Luis Lopez is the bodyguard and business partner of famous Liberty City nightclub owner Anthony Gay Tony Prince. With the drug-addled Tony owing money to the mob and other shady ...
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Contra: Hard Corps Contra: Hard Corps, released in Japan as Contra: The Hard Corps (魂斗羅 ザ・ハードコア) and in Europe and Australia as Probotector, is a side-scrolling run and gun-style shoot-'em-up game released by Konami for the Sega Genesis video game platform in 1994.
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Diablo  (video game) Diablo is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment on December 31, 1996.
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How Video Game Systems Work In 1975, Atari introduced a home version of its popular arcade game, Pong. The original home version of Pong was sold exclusively through Sears, and even carried the Sears logo. Pong was a phenomenal success, opening the door to the future of home video games.ideo games have been around since the early 1970s. The first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space by Nutting Associates, was introduced in 1971.
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- Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch is the seventh major home video game console developed by Nintendo. Known in development as the NX, it was unveiled in October 2016, and was released worldwide on March 3, 2017. Nintendo considers the Switch a hybrid console; it is designed primarily as a home console, with the main unit inserted onto a docking station to connect to a television.
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Clean lens for xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second game console made by Microsoft, and was released November 22, 2005.
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How Video Game Systems Work The first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space by Nutting Associates, was introduced in 1971. In 1972, Atari introduced Pong to the arcades. An interesting item to note is that Atari was formed by Nolan Bushnell, the man who developed Computer Space.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess On December 6, 2014, it was announced that Final Fantasy VII would be released on the PlayStation 4, with upscaled graphics. It has continued to sell solidly—over 11 million copies were sold as of 2015, making it the best-selling title in the series.
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Atari Five years later in 1977, the company once again changed the face of entertainment when it introduced its first home video game console or VCS (video computer system). While Atari’s cartridge-based game console took off with phenomenal success, it wasn’t actually the first to market. That award goes to Magnavox for their Odyssey console, which was released in August of 1972. The designer, Ralph Baer, began work on its prototype as early as 1968!
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- An arcade game originally released in 1981 by Atari. Tempest was a vector-based arcade game designed and programmed programmed by Dave Theurer where the player would control a small ship that moved around in a wireframe tunnel destroying oncoming space ships.
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How Video Game Systems Work Although the Fairchild Channel F, released in 1976, was the first true removable game system, Atari once again had the first such system to be a commercial success. Introduced in 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (VCS), the 2600 used removable cartridges, allowing a multitude of games to be played using the same hardware.
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Billy Cox Connect with Billy Cox online ... Billy Cox is scheduled to perform with Experience Hendrix Tour on the following dates: (click dates for more information) Billy Cox met Jimi Hendrix when they were serving in the Army at Fort Campbell, Kentucky in 1961. Ducking into Service Club #1 to get out of a sudden rainstorm, he heard guitar playing inside.
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Final Fantasy XIII In 2009, Final Fantasy XIII was released in Japan, and in North America and Europe the following year, for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the flagship installment of the Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy series and became the first mainline game to spawn two direct sequels (XIII-2 and Lightning Returns).
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Overview Overview. One of the earliest shooting games, Space Invaders was released by Taito in Japan on June 19, 1978. Gameplay involves attempting to defeat waves of aliens cascading down from the top of the screen with a laser cannon that moves along a fixed horizontal axis. The only goal is to earn as many points as possible.
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Atari 2600 The Atari 2800 is the Japanese version of the Atari 2600, released in October 1983. It was the first release of a 2600 designed specifically for the Japanese market, despite companies like Epoch distributing the 2600 in Japan previously.y 1982 the 2600 console cost Atari about $40 to make and was sold for an average of $125. The company spent $4.50 to $6 to manufacture each cartridge and $1 to $2 for advertising, and sold it for $18.95 wholesale.
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- The first generation of video game consoles began in 1972 with the Magnavox Odyssey (which began development in 1968 by Ralph Baer under the code name The Brown Box), until 1977, when pong-style console manufacturers left the market en masse due to the video game crash of 1977 and when microprocessor-based consoles were introduced.