So Today, i was thinking how video games have evolved over the last 40 years, and how we started with 2D black and white games to life like 3D full colour games with incredible unbelievable graphics. The first Commercially available video game was a coin operated and called Computer Space, the creator or the system eventually made the company Atari, and produced a system about 6 months later. Later the Home computer began to look more of a console than a work station. In 1979 some of Atari's programmers made the company Activision, because some of the anonymously created games they have created counted for 60 percent of all the game cartridges Atari sold. In the 1980 some of the best video game companies started their businesses, including EA (Electronic Arts) and also the year that Pac man was created. The 80's was a golden age for video games, the beginning of Genre's for games had begun, including Adventure, Beat em up, Fighting, Maze games, Platform games ( when moving up levels etc.), Racing games, Role playing games Etc. Also the start of Handheld games by Nintendo, Game & watch, these games used LCD ( Liquid Crystal Display) and were quite popular the first year. Then in 1983 there was the second video game crash ( the first in 1977) The crash was a result of over production of video games e.g. pac man & E.T. The extra- terrestrial, Atari allegedly Buried all the extra games in a landfill in Mexico.
Check out our next blog we will talk about the third generation of Video games including The NES & Handheld's like Sega Game Gear
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