Video Games Through the Years

Video games have really changed since the early seventies, from going to the arcades with a large group of friends has now gone to playing at the comfort of your own home, playing against someone either in a different state or country. The first gaming console was the  Magnavox Odyssey but it didn’t have much success until the Atari came out with its hit game pong. The graphics for the games in this era was nothing but pixels with not much detail. The consoles did well in the market until 1977 when the market stock went down but Atari stayed strong because it released Space Invaders onto the console but the market yet crashed again in 1983. The whole video game market crashed by the crappy games that came out around that time, the worse on the list was E.T the game, it was so horrible that they buried the game in an unknown location in Arizona. Most companied filed to bankruptcy, or just gave up on the company, around 1984 all North American came consoles were discontinued.

            In 1985 the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was released in North America, with Super Mario Bros. Nintendo brought back the videogame industry by bringing back competitors until the next generation of console were released, biggest competitors at this time was Sega and Nintendo, they competed until Sega was over thrown because their console the Sega Dreamcast didn’t do so well but it was the first console to have online gaming but it was too ahead of its time. The next big competitor to release was Sony’s Playstation then after Microsoft got into the business with their Xbox, Xbox brought online gaming into view, and became first in the competitors, playstation brought games for the hardcore gamer, and Nintendo brought the family element for their games. Now we have the Xbox 360 which has us playing with different kinds of people around the world and with Hd graphics for games like Halo and Gears of War, that shows much detail in the characters, like even in sport games you can see them sweat. Sony’s Playstation 3 has a Blu-ray player and has everything Xbox has but their games are more depth in their stories like God of War and Metal Gear Solid. Nintendo has been bringing innovation with motion sensors with their Nintendo Wii; they have the same types of games like Mario and the Legend of Zelda. Xbox and Playstation have brought their versions of motion control in the gaming community Xbox with their Kinect which lets your whole body be the remote, Playstation brought a motion control version of the Wii’s remote and next year Nintendo will be releasing their new console the Wii-u which will add more innovation, which will give ideas to the other competitors. The future of the gaming community is bright, it has gotten to a broader audience and it will keep getting bigger because the stories in the games get better and the graphics will keep advancing.