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First Night Baseball Game
May 24, 1935 The first night major league baseball game is played in Cincinnati. The hometown Reds defeated the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 2-1. Night baseball caught on around the league very quickly – except for the Chicago Cubs, who didn’t play a home night game until 1988. Why am I not surprised? First Night Baseball…
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Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 18, 1974 Atari Introduces Gran Trak 10. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it’s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game’s controls, which…
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Would You Like to Play a Game?
June 3, 1983 The science fiction film WarGames is released. Notable for bringing the hacking phenomena to the attention of the American public, it ignites a media sensation regarding the hacker sub-culture. The film’s NORAD set is the most expensive ever built at the time at a cost of $ 1 million dollars. Not widely known is…
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Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 18, 1974 Atari Introduces Gran Trak 10. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it’s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game’s controls, which…
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Would You Like to Play a Game?
June 3, 1983 The science fiction film WarGames is released. Notable for bringing the hacking phenomena to the attention of the American public, it ignites a media sensation regarding the hacker sub-culture. The film’s NORAD set is the most expensive ever built at the time at a cost of $ 1 million dollars. Not widely known is…
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First Night Baseball Game
May 24, 1935 The first night major league baseball game is played in Cincinnati. The hometown Reds defeated the visiting Philadelphia Phillies 2-1. Night baseball caught on around the league very quickly – except for the Chicago Cubs, who didn’t play a home night game until 1988. Why am I not surprised? The post First…
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Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 18, 1974 Atari Introduces Gran Trak 10. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it’s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game’s controls, which…
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Arcade Game of Many Firsts
March 18, 1974 Atari Introduces Gran Trak 10. It is the first arcade game to use solid state read-only memory (ROM) to store sprites for each car, the game timer, the race track, and the score. As such, it’s the the first game to have defined characters rather than mathematically manipulated dots. The game’s controls, which…
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Field Hockey Game at Stanford to be Broadcast on Pac-12 Network
Field Hockey Game at Stanford to be Broadcast on Pac-12 Network PAC-12 RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.- The University at Albany field hockey team’s Sept. 14 contest at Stanford will be available on the Pac-12 Network, the league announced on Thursday afternoon. The game is currently scheduled for 11:00 a.m. PT (2:00 p.m. ET). “One…
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Softball Drops Opening Game Of NCAA Regional, 1-0, To Wisconsin
Softball Drops Opening Game Of NCAA Regional, 1-0, To Wisconsin Box Score EUGENE, Ore. – Making its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2011, the University at Albany softball team played its opening game in the regional round Friday against Big-10 runner-up Wisconsin. UAlbany (33-12) was defeated by the Badgers (35-18) in a…