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Patented: History of Inventions

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The History of Play

Games like miss old coman were designed to show a nuclear war. The best you could do would be lasting five or ten minutes defending your city. And so it was actually making intriguing commentary on the fatalism regarding nuclear war in the 19 eighties. A popular one from around the tomeo plaine space invaders is missile command, by a torry. That game projects a war of ic bm missiles raining down on cities. It's quite interesting, isn't it? that suddenly you get a new technology, this idea of computers, and it's not long before we start to want to play games on it.

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