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An adolescence spent playing spacies inspired the directorial debut of a famous New Zealand face. Oscar Kightley’s first short film Tom’s Dairy is one of six finalists in the New Zealand International Film Festival beginning on Thursday
OBLIVION (M) (124 min) Directed by Joseph Kosinski.
1972 It begins: Pong is invented 1978 Space Invaders blips its way into arcades everywhere 1977 The Atari 2600 game system sells millions of units and brings arcade action home 1980 Pac-Man released 1982 First hit song based on a video game, Pac-Man Fever: “I got a pocket full of quarters …” 1981 First all-video game magazine: Electronic Games 1982 Video games first appear on the cover of TIME 1982 Tron, the first movie about video games, tanks at the box office 1983 E.T. becomes a video game –and flops 1983 A-list athletes star in games like Julius Erving & Larry Bird: One-On-One 1983 Journey is the first rock group to have its own arcade game