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First video game was created
The Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device was the first video game in history, created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. -
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Early games
Some of the earliest known games include the Nimrod (1951), a computer custom-built by Ferranti specifically for display at the Festival of Britain that could play the mathematical game Nim; OXO by A.S. Douglas (1952), which he programmed as part of his master's thesis and is the earliest known game to display graphics on a monitor; Hutspiel (1955), a war game built by the United States military to simulate a conflict with the Soviet Union in Europe; IBM employee Arthur Samuel's checkers program -
Early arcade video games
Bushnell and Dabney founded Atari, Inc. in 1972, before releasing their next game: Pong. Pong was the first arcade video game with widespread success. The game is loosely based on table tennis.Another significant game was Gun Fight, A on-foot, multi-directional shooter designed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released by Taito in 1975 -
Golden age of arcade games
The arcade game industry entered its golden age in 1978 with the release of Space Invaders,Space Invaders would go on to sell over 360,000 arcade cabinets worldwide and within a year, generate a revenue of more than $1 billion in quarters. many games were becoming popular like the arcade games such as Space Invaders, Frogger,Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong -
Third Generation of consoles
In 1985, the American Video Game Console market was revived with Nintendo’s release of its 8-bit console, the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the new consoles, the gamepad or joypad, took over for joysticks, paddles, and keypads as the default game controller. In this generation many of the games you may know came out like Gyromite, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda series, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear, and the Dragon Quest series -
Video game crash of 1977
In 1977, manufacturers of older consoles and like Pong sold their systems creating a video game crash. Atari and Magnavox remained in the home console market, despite suffering losses in 1977 and 1978.
The crash was largely caused by the high number of Pong clones that flooded both the arcade and home markets. The crash soon came to an end with the success of Taito's Space Invaders, released in 1978, sparking a renaissance for the video game industry -
Sixth generation of consoles
The generation opened with the launch of the Dreamcast in 1998. It was the first console to have a built-in modem for Internet support and online play. While it was initially successful, sales and popularity would soon begin to fall.Nintendo followed a year later with the GameCube .Before the end of 2001, Microsoft Corporation, best known for its Windows operating system and entered the console market with the Xbox that turned wildly popular. -
Gaming without controllers
On November 4, 2010, Microsoft released Kinect in North America, and later in other parts of the world,it was packaged with the console as well. It uses a sensor and dual-camera device to track the motion of the players themselves. It sold an average of 133,333 units a day for the first 60 days and a total of 8 million units during the same period, earning it the Guinness World Record for the "fastest selling consumer electronics device".[ -
Current video games
Now consoles have blue-ray players and motion sensores. Game consoles like the new Xbox one have the Kinect and new renovated controlers for better gaming. Microsoft and Sony have been arguing about what console is better and have been competeing for a long time. Video games have come along way. Which one is your favorite? -
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