The conflict has forced 4.5 million Yemenis from their homes according to the UN. Oman is brokering negotiations on a deal to end the wider conflict, according to a monthly forecast from the Security Council Report. The warring parties failed to renew a truce brokered by the UN in October.īut despite fears widespread violence will erupt again, the lull in fighting has continued. The Islamist group – also known as Ansarullah – overthrew the internationally recognized government, leading to a years-long fuel blockade imposed by the coalition and supported by the United States.Ī ceasefire in April 2022 stopped all but the most sporadic fighting, but the country remains broken between hostile factions. The seventh edition of the Hadramout Cup finished off in style with 50,000 fans in attendance.įor the last eight years, Yemen has been torn apart by conflict with a Saudi-led coalition trying to crush the Iran-backed Houthis. “I was very happy because the world heard about this match, so it was a good chance for the whole of Yemen.” “Most people, they love football, because it gives them some enjoyment,” said Al-Hendi. The images Al-Hendi posted on social media of the packed stadium have been widely shared, perhaps because they provide a different perspective on the small nation on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
“Most of the people, they could not enter the match because it became too full,” Al-Hendi tells CNN Sport. Photographer and journalist Saan Saleh Al-Hendi was on hand to capture the action at the Seiyun Olympic Stadium. The final was the showpiece conclusion to a regional tournament featuring teams from all over Hadramout – a region covering more than 74,000 square miles in southern Yemen. The scene is the dusty, windswept town of Seiyun in Yemen, where according to local journalists, more than 50,000 people congregated to watch the Hadramout Cup final between Shaab Al-Hadramout and Itifaq Al-Houta earlier in March. The second console is still operational and is currently a playable exhibit at the Computer History Museum.The photos, taken earlier this month, have now been viewed thousands of times: a soccer stadium, packed to the rafters, is overlooked by a rocky escarpment, the luscious green pitch providing a vivid contrast to an azure sky.
Unfortunately, Pitts and Tuck were unable to turn Galaxy Game into a commercial success because they chose to focus on the game’s engineering rather than the business side of their idea. The console charged players 10 cents per game or 25 cents for three and was popular among the university’s students. Pitts and Tuck spent $65,000 building two prototype consoles for Galaxy Game and installed them in the student union. Galaxy Game is the lesser-known of the first two arcade games ever released, which were both based on the earlier computer game Spacewar! The game was developed by Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck, at the student union building of Stanford University, around the same time that Syzygy Engineering (which would later become Atari) released its Spacewar!-based arcade game, Computer Space. In addition to the separate game cards, Magnavox sold the first video game light gun as a peripheral controller. The games included with the Odyssey were: Table Tennis, Ski, Simon Says, Analogic, Hockey, Football, Cat and Mouse, Haunted House, Submarine, Roulette, and States. Additional games were sold separately later in the year and in 1973. The Odyssey debuted in the Fall of 1972 and the U.S. They showed their prototype to several manufacturers before Magnavox agreed to produce the console in 1971. Baer and he spent several years developing a prototype with Bill Harrison and Bill Rusch. The idea for a video game console was developed by Ralph H. The Magnavox Odyssey was the first home video game console ever released. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons via Evan-Amos
Pong has has been a part of popular culture since its release.Ĭreator(s): Small team led by Ralph H. Atari released numerous sequels to Pong and released a home version of the game during the 1975 Christmas season. Due to Pong’s success, several companies began producing games similar to Pong. Pong was an immediate hit and it is considered the first commercially successful video game. Pong was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Nolan Bushnell, the co-founder of the newly renamed video game company Atari (it was previously called Syzygy Engineering).īushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney liked Alcorn’s work and decided to manufacture the game. Creator(s): Allan Alcorn while working for AtariĪlthough all of the games on this list influenced the video game industry in some way, Pong‘s success made the video game industry a viable business.
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