#32 While games such as Doom, Marathon, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D and GoldenEye 007 may have defined the first-person shooter genre, the first documented 'first-person shooter 3D multiplayer networked game' was called Spasim (space + simulation = Spasim). It appeared in 1974 and could be played by up to 32 people. If gaming history's your thing, why not check outthis lengthy documentby Spasim creator, Jim Bowery.
#33 The world's first fully-rendered videogame was Donkey Kong Country for the SNES.
#34 In 1974 the makers of the Magnavox Odyssey console filed a lawsuit against Atari, insisting that Pong had infringed a patent it held on the concept of a tennis video game. This was the first case relating to intellectual property in the gaming industry. Atari settled out of court for $700,000 after Magnavox proved that Atari boss Nolan Bushnell had actually seen the Odyssey's table tennis game at a trade show that pre-dated Pong.
#35 The first slogan used by gaming colossus Electronic Arts when it was founded in 1982 was the completely lame ass "We see farther."
