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#48 Thought Mario uttered his first words in Super Mario 64? Wrong. The voice of Mario, Charles Martinet, first lent his oral utterances to Nintendo's mascot in the 1995 release, Mario's Game Gallery.

#49 In 1974, Atari's arcade racer, Gran Trak 10, became the first video game that was played using a steering wheel. Other interface firsts introduced by Gran Trak 10 were brake and accelerate pedals, and a the four-position gear stick.

#50 Released for the SNES in 1993, Star Fox was the first game to make use of the Super FX chip, which - you've guessed it - was used to create even superer graphic effects on Nintendo's 16-bit console.

#51 The very first gaming Easter egg is thought to have been tucked away in the 1979 Atari 2600 title, Adventure. By carrying a hidden pixel, players could access a hidden room where the message "Created by Warren Robinett" was displayed. Not particularly exciting, but still...

#52 In 1972 the first prototype Pong machine was installed at a bar called Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California. A few days after it was fitted the machine broke down because it was so stuffed with coins.

#53 The first major movie based on a video game was the critically assassinated Super Mario Bros. Soiling cinema screens in 1993, it starred Bob Hoskins as Mario and Dennis Hopper as King Koopa.

#54 When did cooperative gaming first appear? Well, the earliest example of it we can find is Atari's 1978 Fire Truck, in which one player drove the rig and the other took charge of the trailer. A year later, Cinematronics' space shooter, Rip Off, gave two players the opportunity to control their own, unattached, vehicles simultaneously on-screen. Another first.

#55 In 2007 gaming audio is all about Dolby 5.1, but the first time that gamers experienced an earful in super stereo was Konami's 1983 space-based shoot-'em-up, Gyruss.

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