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For Green Week, we're headed to Far Far Away to go over the history of the Shrek franchise's many, many tie-in video games.

From platformers to open-world RPGs, these groundbreaking titles defined their respective genres and paved the way for future games

Even when video games were little more than rudimentary pixels on a black screen, art has played an important role in sparking players’ imaginations, whether it’s what decorates the side of an arcade cabinet or the illustration on a game box.

Racing games have been around for a long time, debuting in the early 1970s and continuing to this day with impressive arcade and console options. Like any genre, racing games have evolved over the years, so today’s games look nothing like their ancestors.

For decades, video games have served as a proving ground for artificial intelligence. From early checkers programs to systems that conquered chess and Go, each milestone has seemed to bring machines closer to human-like intelligence.