The history of video games takes its start in the early 1950s. Video games reached mainstream popularity in the 1970s and 1980s when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to general public.
Today video gaming is a popular form of entertainment and a part of the world culture. As well, video games industry is one of the most profitable in the world. And it continues growing and gripping the audience steadily without a break.
I founded Atari, and Atari was credited with founding the video game business.
The arcade game industry entered its golden age in 1978
with the release of
The golden age of arcade video games is defined as the peak era of arcade video game popularity and technological innovation. Although there is no consensus as to its exact time period, most sources place it as starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and lasting to the mid-1980s.
Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado.
Within two years by 1980, Taito had sold over 300,000 Space Invaders arcade machines in Japan, in addition to 60,000 machines in the United States, where prices ranged from $2000 to $3000 for each machine, within one year.
Asteroids, the arcade space shooter, was released by Atari, Inc. in November 1979.
Acclaimed by players and video game critics for its vector graphics, controls, and addictive gameplay, Asteroids was one of the first major hits of the golden age of arcade games.
The game sold over 70,000 arcade cabinets and proved both popular with players and influential with developers. It has since been ported to multiple platforms.
Pac-Man, the arcade game developed by Namco, was first released in Japan in May, 1980.
Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered virtually synonymous with video games and an icon of 1980s popular culture.
It is also one of the highest-grossing video games of all time, having generated more than $2.5 billion in quarters by the 1990s.
Donkey Kong, the arcade game that was Nintendo's first big hit in North America, is considered to be the earliest video game with a storyline that visually unfolds on screen.
It marked the beginning of the Mario series games, and introduced several of the earliest characters, including Mario himself, the original Donkey Kong, and Pauline, who now frequently appear in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.
Star Wars is an arcade game produced by Atari Inc. and released in 1983.
The game is a first person space simulator, simulating the attack on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars.
The game is composed of 3D color vector graphics.
This game was developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games and is considered the #4 most popular game of all time according to the readers of Killer List of Videogames.
In the development of game industry, a variety of genres and dozens of subgenres came into the world. We'll mention some of them that are considered primary nowadays.
The action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction-time.
(Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance)
Action-adventures require many of the same physical skills as action games, but also offer a storyline, numerous characters, an inventory system, dialogue, and other features of adventure games
(Uncharted 4: A Thief's End)
This genre focused on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres
(Dreamfall: The Longest Journey)
Players control a central game character, or multiple game characters, usually called a party, and attain victory by completing a series of quests or reaching the conclusion of a central storyline.
(The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt)
A massively multiplayer online game (MMO) is a multiplayer video game which is capable of supporting large numbers of players imultaneously.
(World of Warcraft)
Strategy video games are a genre of video games that emphasize skillful thinking and planning to achieve victory, a player must plan a series of actions against opponents. Reduction of enemy forces is usually a goal.
(Star Craft 2)
Horror games focuse on survival of the character as the game tries to scare the player who is made to feel less powerful than in typical action games, because of limited ammunition, health, speed, vision, or other limitations.
(Resident Evil 4)
A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate aspects of a real or fictional reality.
(The Sims 4)
In 1985, the second wave of development hit the American video game console market with Nintendo’s release of its
8-bit console, the Famicom (a portmanteau of "Family Computer"), known outside Asia as
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
The development of game industry was actively going on. The world saw dozens of games which were admitted as classics. We played many of them when we were kids fascinated by the way they looked and the emotions they gave to us. Today we feel nostalgia when looking at these games.
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In the story behind the original series, Mega Man is an android called Rock, created as a lab assistant by the scientist Dr. Light. Following treachery by Dr. Wily, Rock was converted into a battle robot to defend the world from Wily's violent robotic threats. Thus, he becomes Mega Man.
DuckTales is an action platformer video game developed by Capcom and based on the Disney animated TV series of the same name. The game sees players in the role of Scrooge McDuck as he travels around the world in search of five treasures to further increase his fortune.
Super Mario Bros. received favorable reviews, and further popularized the side-scrolling subgenre of the already popular platform video game.Altogether, excluding Game Boy Advance and Virtual Console sales, the game has sold 40.24 million copies, making it the best-selling video game in the Mario series.
Contra is a video game series produced by Konami composed primarily of run and gun-style shoot-'em-ups. Player takes control of an armed commando who must fight all sort of extraterrestrial monsters and other kinds of futuristic menaces.
Battletoads is a video game media franchise by Rare that began with the original beat 'em up game Battletoads in 1991. Starring three anthropomorphic toads named after skin conditions, Rash, Zitz, and Pimple
Metroid is a series of science fiction action-adventure video games by Nintendo. It chronicles the missions of space-faring bounty hunter Samus Aran, who protects the galaxy from the depredations of the Space Piratesand their attempts to harness the power of the eponymous Metroids.
Castlevania is a video game series created and developed by Konami, centered on the Belmonts, a clan of vampire hunters, and their fight with Dracula. Belmont's main weapon is a whip called "Vampire Killer", while the secondary weapons are powered by Hearts, collected by attacking candles and killing monsters.
The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.
A 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan.
The SNES was a global success, becoming the best-selling console of the 16-bit era despite its relatively late start and the fierce competition it faced in North America and Europe from Sega's Genesis/Mega Drive console.
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Drive in most regions outside North America, is a 16-bit home video game console which was developed and sold by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. The Genesis was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master System. Sega first released the console as the Mega Drive in Japan in 1988,
Sega Genesis (Mega Drive)
Advances in high technologies could not but affect the game industry. In time, developers gained more opportunities to create their own games. And the games themselves, in turn, became more detailed. However, this was only the beginning of the development of graphics in games... and soon we will see this.
Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.
The PlayStation is the first "computer entertainment platform" to ship 100 million units, which it had reached 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch. Reactions to the console upon launch were favourable; critics praised the console for the quality of its 3-dimensional graphics.
Nintendo 64, named for its 64-bit central processing unit, was released in June 1996 in Japan. It is the industry's latest major home console to use the cartridge as its primary storage format. While the N64 was succeeded by Nintendo's MiniDVD-based GameCube in November 2001, N64 consoles remained available until the system was retired in late 2003.
The Xbox was the first video game console to feature a built-in hard disk drive, used primarily for storing game saves and content downloaded from Xbox Live. This eliminated the need for separate memory cards (although some older consoles, such as the Amiga CD32 used internal flash memory and others like the TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD and Sega Saturn had featured built-in battery backup memory prior to 2001). An Xbox user could rip music from standard audio CDs to the hard drive, and these songs were used for the custom soundtracks in some games.
The GameCube is the first Nintendo console to use optical discs for its primary storage medium. The discs are similar to the miniDVD format, and as a result of their smaller size along with the console's small disc compartment, the system was not designed to play standardDVDs or audio CDs. Nintendo presents a variety of connectivity options for the GameCube. It supports online gaming for a small number of games via the broadband or modem adapter, sold separately; it also connects to the Game Boy Advance, allowing players to access exclusive in-game features using the handheld as a second screen and controller.
A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable video game console with a built-in screen, game controls, and speakers. Handheld game consoles are smaller than home video game consoles and contain the console, screen, speakers, and controls in one unit, allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place.
At the present time the game consoles market is shared by Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. The leader of the industry is considered to be PS4 from Sony, Microsoft's Xbox One is the second best and Nintendo Wii U closes the list of market players.
The video games market has been rapidly developing for more than three decades and modern technologies offer us fantastic opportunities which we could only dream of before. Soon people will be able to fling themselves into the real world of virtual reality!
Now game is around you!
Now it is you who holds weapon personally, it is you who dodges from bullet.
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