l often with monochromatic graphics. Yet, they were still highly successful in the U.S. With Atari leading the way with home gaming systems and arcade consoles, it took merely a decade to integrate video gaming into young American culture.
Today, however, Pong and Pac-Man are gone and replaced with games like Mortal Kombat and the Grand Theft Auto series. Cartoonish characters that gobble dots on a flat screen in two tones have been replaced by three-dimensional human characters that blast humans and aliens into pieces on a real-world landscape colored in millions of shades. Now, instead of two men creating a simple game in their free time in three weeks, a team of market analyzers, art directors, graphic designers, and programmers work fo
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