Before Cyberpunk: Video games that changed the world


At 200 million copies, Minecraft is the bestselling video game of all time by far. — AFP

PARIS: As Sony pulls the much-hyped action role play game Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation after complaints of bugs and even a player getting a fit, we look back on gaming history, from "prehistoric" Pac-Man to worlds as limitless as a hacker's imagination.

Pac-Man (1982)

One of the first consoles to bring the arcade experience to living rooms, Japan's Atari licensed Pac-Man in 1982. The simple game may seem prehistoric now – a yellow circle head munching a maze of dots – but it would prove to be a bestseller until 1992.

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