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	<title>Phosphor Dot Fossils</title>
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	<description>theLogBook.com's Museum of Classic Arcade, Computer and Home Video Games</description>
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		<title>Computer Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game: Two ships are locked in deadly deep-space combat, firing interplanetary ordnance at each other. Whoever survives the most confrontations within a set amount of time is the victor. In the game&#8217;s one-player variation, the machine controls one ship, and a two-player version was also made.  (Nutting &#038; Associates, 1971)
Memories: To go all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1971/computer-space/</link>
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		<title>Pong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game: Avoid missing ball for high score.
(No, really!) (Atari, 1972)
Memories:  Which came first, the chicken or the egg? And who hatched that egg (or fried that chicken) first &#8211; Atari founder Nolan Bushnell or inventor Ralph Baer, who licensed to Magnavox his concept for a dedicated video tennis game that could be hooked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1972/pong/</link>
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		<title>Rebound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game:  Live in glorious black &#038; white, it&#8217;s the first-ever game of video volleyball!  Two players square off &#8211; well, okay, rectangle off &#8211; against each other as horizontal Pong paddles situated on either side of a dotted-line &#8220;net.&#8221;  The ball drops out of mid-air toward one player or the other, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1973/rebound/</link>
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		<title>Gotcha!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game: Two players &#8211; one represented by a roving square and the other by a plus sign &#8211; roam the ever-changing halls of a maze.  The object of the game is for one player to catch the other before time runs out; however, the maze&#8217;s ability to constantly reconfigure itself isn&#8217;t going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1974/gotcha/</link>
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		<title>Tank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game: Two players each control a fearsome armored fighting vehicle on a field of battle littered with obstacles. The two tanks pursue each other around the screen, trying to line up the perfect shot without also presenting a perfect target if they miss. In accordance with the laws of ballistics and mass in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1974/tank/</link>
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		<title>Gun Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game: Grab yer guns and draw, sonny! You face off against another player, with only six bullets and plenty of obstacles in the way &#8211; a pesky cactus or two, a roaming covered wagon, and so on. Whoever lines his opponent&#8217;s belly with lead first wins the round, and the final victory goes to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1975/gun-fight/</link>
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		<title>Odyssey 100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game:  A simple version of video ping-pong; players use three knobs, one to control horizontal movement, one to control vertical movement, and a third to control the &#8220;English&#8221; or spin of the ball.  (Magnavox, 1975)
Memories:  Caught flat-footed by the success of Atari&#8217;s Pong home console, Magnavox found itself struggling to hang [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1975/odyssey-100/</link>
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		<title>Odyssey 200</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about upscale. The Odyssey 200, released not long after the Odyssey 100, added an extra game to the mix, bringing the machine&#8217;s built-in game total up to three. In addition to Tennis and Hockey/Soccer, the Odyssey 200 adds Smash, essentially a vastly simplified game of racquetball.  (Magnavox seemed to feel that the extra [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1975/odyssey-200/</link>
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		<title>Odyssey 300</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking Atari&#8217;s lead for the first time, the Odyssey 300 &#8211; in its bright yellow shell &#8211; saw the console abandoning the trio of horizontal/vertical/English controls that had been in place since the original Odyssey. In addition to mimicking the all-in-one controls of Atari&#8217;s Pong, Odyssey 300 &#8211; still boasting the standard Tennis, Hockey and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1975/odyssey-300/</link>
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		<title>The Amazing Maze Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Game:  You control a dot making its way through a twisty maze with two exits &#8211; one right behind you and one across the screen from you. The computer also controls a dot which immediately begins working its way toward the exit behind you. The game is simple: you have to guide your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/1976/the-amazing-maze-game/</link>
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