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video game

Electronic game played on a visual-display screen or, by means of special additional or built-in components, on the screen of a television set. The first commercially sold was a simple bat-and-ball game developed in the USA in 1972.



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For the sake of this article, the term computer video game simply extends Gredler's definition of games to computing environments.
Last April, the UN World Food Program introduced Food Force, a computer video game to teach children about global hunger.
But then again, tweak the controls on Electronic Arts' wildly popular ``FIFA World Cup '98'' computer video game, and even the United States can navigate through the Ronaldos and Bebetos of the world and come home with that giant blob of a gold trophy.
 
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