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Who created Tennis for Two, the 1958 computer game often cited as an early video game?

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William Higinbotham

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Which home video game console is the best-selling of all time, with more than 155 million units sold?

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PlayStation 2

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In what year did Nintendo release the original Game Boy in Japan?

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1989

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Who created Minecraft, the sandbox video game first released publicly in 2009?

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Markus Persson

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What was Sony’s first PlayStation console called when it launched in Japan in 1994?

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PlayStation

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What year was Doom, the influential first-person shooter by id Software, first released?

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1993

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In what year did Nintendo launch the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America?

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1985

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What was Pac-Man’s original Japanese name when Namco released the arcade game in 1980?

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Puck Man

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Who created Space Invaders, the 1978 arcade game that helped popularize the shoot-'em-up genre?

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Tomohiro Nishikado

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What was the name of the first commercial home video game console, released by Magnavox in 1972?

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Magnavox Odyssey

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In what year did Atari release Pong, one of the first commercially successful arcade video games?

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1972

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What is the name of Google’s annual developer conference, first held in 2008?

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Google I/O

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