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History of video games, a Rare card
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 95
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 169 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.
- The first consumer video game hardware was released in the early 1970s.
- The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, and the first arcade video games were Computer Space and Pong.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of video games article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 95 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get History of video games
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below History of video games in the power ranking, all domains together.
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Card lists
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Nature cards600 cards
- Science cards600 cards
- History cards600 cards
- Arts cards600 cards
- Society cards600 cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
- Legendary cards136 cards
- Epic cards262 cards
- Strongest cardsTop 100 by attack
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of video games (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Hanno Böck, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
