1970s - Birth of The Video Game Machines: Roberto Deborah
1970s - Birth of The Video Game Machines: Roberto Deborah
1970s - Birth of The Video Game Machines: Roberto Deborah
At the beginning of the 1970s the firm Atari was founded. The most successful games were Pong and Space
Invaders.
The games featured very simple graphics and narratives. Levels became increasingly difficult and players
attempted to beat the high score.
These simple games have reached and maintained the success for a long time.
At the beginning of the decade, increasingly cheaper and more powerful home computers started
appearing. With the more refined technologies gameplay and graphics became more innovative. Games got
their own characters and more complex stories. Atari, went bankrupt and in the same time were emerging
in the industry console like Commodore and Nintendo.
Many classic games that are still going strong today came out in the 1980s: Pac-Man (1980), Ultima (1980),
Mario Bros (1983), Tetris (1984) and SimCity (1989
Like the first generation of players, the games industry had grown up. In the second half of the decade the
graphics became three-dimensional. Players were now able to move in three directions instead of two, in
these games, a player uses a weapon to kill off his or her opponents Console and game manufacturers
competed for a share of the ever-growing market. In 1994, Sony launched the PlayStation. The most
famous games were: Age of Empires (1997), Command & Conquer (1995), Tomb Raider (1996) and
Wolfenstein 3D (1992).
At the beginning of the millennium, people start to play against one another online. Open-world games
were introduced such as World of Warcraft (2004) and in this decade were produced others numerous
bestsellers such as for example: The Sims (2000), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004), Super Mario
Galaxy (2007) and Minecraft (2010).
In the decade just ended, video games have become a billion-dollar business with profits higher than those
of the film and music industry. Game studios have developed games for every type of platforms:
computers, consoles, tablets and mobile phones. On the train, waiting for the bus, or before going to sleep:
there's a video game instantly available in any spare moment.
Nowadays most games are characterized by dialogues and emotional storylines and take a different street
way according to the player's decisions so can be played again and again are put out on PCs, PlayStation
and Xbox