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LET'S PLAY... VIDEO GAME PIONEER - OR MURDERER?

10/7/2017

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Do you ever wonder where you might've ended up if your life had taken a few different turns? In every person there exists the capacity for both greatness and catastrophe. Why, just a few bad days and any one of us could become a serial killer!

Here are ten photographs of ten men who either helped build the video games industry as we know it - or were responsible for the deaths of countless innocent people.

Can you tell the video game pioneers from the murderers? Put your powers of deduction to the test, as we play... Video Game Pioneer - or Murderer?!
WILLY HIGINBOTHAM
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Here's something for you to consider: was William "Willy" Higinboth an American physicist, who in 1958 developed Tennis for Two - one of the very first video games - to run on an oscilloscope at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in upstate New York?

Or was he actually a serial killer, who dissolved his victims in a drum of hydrochloric acid, earning him the nickname "Acid Willy"?

Take a good, long look at his photo. Not so easy is it?
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF WILLIAM HIGINBOTHAM WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
STEVE RUSSELL
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That Space War was the first modern-style video game is an undisputed fact. Developed in 1962 and running on a PDP-1 minicomputer, it is one of the most important and influential games ever created.

​Its creator Steve Russell should rightly be heralded - if he did indeed create the game, and wasn't in actual fact a brutal killer, who drowned four high school cheerleaders during a week-long reign of terror in a small Midwestern town.

​Again: look at the photo before making your choice.
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF STEVE RUSSELL WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer
RALPH H. BAER
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Ralph Baer is known either as "The Father of Videogames" for his creation of the first ever home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, or "The Step-Father of Six Murder Victims" for a senseless bloodbath in his Masuchessets home, from which there were no survivors.

Look into his eyes: are those the eyes of a video gaming pioneer... or the soulless black pits of a cold-blooded killer?
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF RALPH BAER WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
TED DABNEY
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As one of. the co-founders of Atari, Ted Dabney is considered one of the unsung heroes in the history of gaming.

Unless Ted Dabney was actually a would-be presidential assassin, whose botched attempt on the life of President Eisenhower ended in tragedy when - cornered in an Atlanta launderette - he shot two policemen, before turning the gun on himself.

There he is in one of the only known photographs of him. That in itself should be a clue as to this why this individual has gone down in infamy...
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF TED DABNEY WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
NOLAN BUSHNELL
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The other Atari co-founder, Nolan Bushnell also founded the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain.

Well, unless you're being spun another untruth with this statement.

Was Nolan Bushnell actually the man responsible for poisoning over thirty Chuck E. Cheese customers, in a twisted revenge attack on his former employer, who had fired him for punching a co-worker - by sneaking into the kitchens and lacing the food with strychnine?

​It's time to choose!
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF NOLAN BUSHNELL WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
TOMOHIRO NISHIKADO
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The creator of Space Invaders, or a ruthless enforcer for an organised crime syndicate, linked to over two dozen gangland killings, which he would commit while singing "Op, op, op, op - Oppa Gangland Style!"? 

You decide. 
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF TOMOHIRO NISHIKADO WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
ROY TRUBSHAW
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Two statements, but only one is true:

1) Roy Trubshaw created MUD - the Multi User Dungeon, the predecessor to every MMO you've ever played.

2) Roy Trubshaw created a MVD - the Multi Victim Dungeon, a basement slaughterhouse, beneath his parents' house, into which he lured seven young men to their deaths.
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF ROY TRUBSHAW WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
WILLIE CROWTHER
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As a keen caver and programmer, William "Willie" Crowther combined his passions to create Colossal Cave Adventure - the first ever text adventure game.

Or did Crowther embark on another sort of "cave adventure", orchestrating three ritual killings as the high priest of a subterranean black magic sex cult?

See if you can work it out from his photograph...
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF WILLIE CROWTHER WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
ED LOGG
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Ed Logg might've been one of the most influential arcade game designers of all time - creating Centipede, Asteroids, Gauntlet. 

Equally, Ed Logg could've been better known as "The Lumberjack" - a serial killer in the Boston area in the late-1970s, finally identified by the distinctive leather gauntlet he would wear while strangling his victims with an asteroid tied to a centipede.
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF ED LOGG WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
HOWARD SCOTT WARSHAW
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Howard Scott Warshaw represented both the best and the worst of the Atari 2600 years - creating both Yars' Revenge, and the doomed E.T. for the console.

Or did Howard Scott Warshaw merely represent the worst of humanity, as the leader of a paramilitary cult, who buried his 200,000 victims in a mass grave in New Mexico?

Look at the photo. You must decide immediately, before he kills again (or doesn't - if he isn't in actual fact a murderer).
PRESS REVEAL TO FIND OUT IF HOWARD SCOTT WARSHAW WAS A MURDERER:
Not a murderer.
16 Comments
RichardM
10/7/2017 09:45:09 am

Mr Biffo, creator of TV's Digitiser or infamous serial killer 'The Digitiser' who forced his victims remains through a dot matrix printer?

N-not a murderer...?

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Biscuits
10/7/2017 11:42:54 am

'The Diggy-Tizer'...he forced his victims to dig their own shallow graves, then dissolved them alive in neon pop

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deKay link
10/7/2017 09:46:35 am

But what about Steve Wozniak, eh?

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Lemon Farl
10/7/2017 10:29:00 am

Co-creator of the apple mac?

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deKay
10/7/2017 10:33:53 am

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN!

Chris
10/7/2017 11:40:39 am

Did he drink from a drain?

Guru Larry link
11/7/2017 03:37:54 pm

And it turned him insane!

Dr Kank
10/7/2017 10:01:39 am

I never realised there were so many not murderers in the 20th century

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Col Asdasd
10/7/2017 11:03:56 am

Found the daily mail reader..?

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Jol
10/7/2017 10:04:54 am

Crowther's not-true murder story sounds like the synopsis of a decent Giallo. Or, given the subterranean cave setting, should that be descent Giallo?

Judging them all entirely on their photographs I'd say that the ones with facial hair definitely look more murderous. Rather appropriately they also look like they could've been in Goblin. Coincidence!?!?!?

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THX 1139
10/7/2017 10:41:02 am

Does this mean the world of video gaming is entirely free of senseless violence? I AM REASSURED.

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Nick
10/7/2017 10:50:42 am

Me Too. I'll let Jack Thompson know. He's gonna be happy but feeling just a little bit foolish.

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Voodoo76
10/7/2017 12:09:36 pm

I heard Ted Bundy used to love playing Bubble Bobble whilst wearing the severed head of one of his victims.

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Chris
10/7/2017 12:40:58 pm

Did you know that Jack The Ripper was so called, because he used to force his victims to play Jack The Nipper on the ZX Spectrum before ripping their heads off? True story.

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Biscuits
10/7/2017 02:17:05 pm

Jet Set Willy was named for Charles 'Jet Set Willy' Manson

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Acid_Arrow
11/7/2017 02:29:16 pm

Technically, Charles Manson didn't murder anyone, he merely directed his brainwashed followers to do so. So maybe he wasn't all bad!




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