READING 3 Leggi questa storia dei videogiochi, poi d se le affermazioni che seguono sono vere o false, correggendo quelle false. PIONEERS 1952 At Cambridge University Alexander S. 1983 There is a crisis in the market because of the poor quality of the video games. Douglas makes the first video game: Noughts and Crosses (Tic Tac Toe). 1985-6 There are new, very successful video-games: Tetris, followed by Sim City. It is also the date of birth of the Game Boy. 1958 Willy Higginbotham creates the first American video-game: Tennis for Two. 1971 Computer Space is the first arcade THE 1990s game operating with coins: it is not a great hit because it is complicated to use and has very long instructions. A lot of famous video-games are released: Mortal Kombat (criticised for its violence), Doom (the first with a downloadable version), Myst (with its amazing graphics), Pocket Pikachu (based on the Pokemon game). There is also great progress in technology. FIRST HITS 1975-6 There are the first stand-alone consoles and cartridges with their own code. 1978 New games, such as Odyssey 2 and Space Invaders, are so successful that there is a coin shortage in Japan owing to arcade games. 1981 Plumber Mario is the famous protagonist of a video game which becomes very popular. THE 2000s Progress goes on. New video-games have very high visual and audio quality. And what can the future bring? T F 1 The first video game comes from Cambridge. .......................................... 2 Tennis for Two is an English video game .......................................... 3 Computer Space is a very successful video game. .......................................... 4 Odyssey 2 is a great hit in Japan in 1978. .......................................... 5 Mario is a video games inventor. .......................................... 6 The 1970s are a period of crisis for video games. .......................................... 7 Technological progress stops in the 1990s. .......................................... USEFUL WORDS arcade = sala giochi; cartridge = cartuccia, cassetta; coin = moneta; hit = successo; owing to = a causa di; plumber = idraulico; to release = lanciare, distribuire, mettere in commercio; shortage = scarsità; stand alone = indipendente; Tic Tac Toe (americano) = gioco Tris Zeri e Ics; nome inglese: Noughts and Crosses 56 week six