Originally designed as a driving sim, Hard Drivin’, released to arcades in 1988, featured a motor that put force on the steering wheel to simulate feedback from the car’s tyres. (2008 edition text) Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 200.
The first game to feature an open-world environment was the 1986 Turbo Esprit for the ZX Spectrum. The game is commonly held responsible for the success of the genre. GWR Video Gamer’s Edition 2008, title: First open-world driving game.
The 13-part documentary series Cosmos (1980), produced and presented by astrophysicist Carl Sagan (USA), utilised the skills or effects technicians who had previously worked on Star Wars (1977) to create a “spaceship of the imagination” – an impressive set that replicated the inside of a space station with portholes looking on to the Universe. The project took two years to plan, earning the show the first ever Emmy award for special effects.
The first mobile phone to use a dual core processor is the LG Optimus 2X, which was first made available to the public nationwide in South Korea, on 25 January 2011. The phone uses the Android operating system and is equipped with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core CPU.
Released on 13 July 2008, Siren: Blood Curse became the first episodic videogame to be released on PlayStation 3. The stealth/survival horror hybrid tells the story of an ill-fated American camera crew who travel to rural Japan to film a documentary on a lost village, only to find themselves under attack from a sect of undead nuns. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The Neo-Assyrian Empire is considered to have been the first empire ever established. Originating in northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) in the late 10th century BC, the empire reached the height of its power and influence in the 8th century BC, when the territories under its control stretched from the Persian Gulf in the Near East all the way to the Mediterranean Sea to the west. The fall of the empire came in 612 BC, when the capital city of Nineveh (modern Mosul) was destroyed by
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Tony Parker (France) was named most valuable player of the NBA Finals playing for the San Antonio Spurs (USA) in 2007.
In the foothills of the Sierra de Atapuerca in northern Spain is a series of prehistoric caves in which a human ancestor – homosapiens antecessor – lived up to 800,000 years ago. Among the hominid skeletal remains are bones and skulls displaying a series of gouges and scars that suggest a tool had been used for skinning, scraping flesh and extracting marrow from bones. The same pattern of markings is mirrored in animal bones found nearby. Further – and later – sites containing evidence of
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Earliest existng advertising The earliest existing advertising comes from Pompeii, near Naples, Italy, and is for a bookseller. It dates from around AD 79.
City of Villains, released in 2005, was a completely new and separate game in which players could create and play as their own supervillains. This marked the first time that a stand-alone MMORPG expansion had been dedicated to playing as the bad guys. The expansion is also notable as City of Heroes subscribers did not have to pay an additional charge to play City of Villains. Guinness World Records Gamers’ Edition 2009.