This group collects the Interactive and Networked Media Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them a sports or racing video game, spanning the earliest sports video game (Tennis for Two, 1958) and the arcade classic Pong through Gran Turismo's racing simulation, Wii Sports' motion-controlled sports bundle and Rocket League's vehicular-soccer hybrid, kept apart from this subcategory's other genre groups purely by the sports or racing activity each title simulates rather than any combat or exploration element.
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Era of EmergenceEarliest sports video game, Tennis for Two on an oscilloscope; the racing sub-genre traces separately to 1972 with the first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey. Sports and Racing Games
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Sports video game (Wikipedia)
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The earliest sports video game dates backs to 1958, when William Higinbotham created a game called Tennis for Two, a competitive two-player tennis game played on an oscilloscope.
Racing video game (Wikipedia)
Racing video game, History section, Magnavox Odyssey sentenceQuote, Racing video game, History section, Magnavox Odyssey sentence
The earliest rudimentary racing video game to be released dates back to 1972, with the release of the first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey.
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