History of The gaming Industry form my POV (Point of View)

Computer Games / Gaming has evolved a lot. From the time of people playing with machines that produce mild electric shocks ( I am serious in the past there are machines that produce mild electrical shocks to people and they find it fun.... wondered if anyone died) , to a realistic 3D world to people.

One of the more olden games that is still being played in some arcades today is pinball. The pinball was once a old broken down machine when player try to keep a metal ball in the game while completing objectives. Now over the years , it has even become a digital game where players play it on the computer.

One of the early type of video games was one that involved 2 players taking control of 2 spaceships and the objective is to shoot at each until one of them is destroyed.

Soon after other games began to develope. Some made bg successes other did not. Soon there were the protests about video game violences. The game that caused it was called Death Race where it involves the player to crush gremlins using a car.

Pic of the game Death Car.

(1976)

But during that year there was a slump in computer games. People stopped buying and games were left on the shelves. It was only in 1978 when the games can back in demand when Toshihiro Nishikado started a get called Space invaders where the player has to defend earth using a gun platform agianst a invasion of alien armada.

Anyway we should als focus on the gaming plateforms too. It is not the games that make the industry succesful.

In 1972 a company called Waco (Toymaker) , created the 1st handheld game device called OXO which is like the game Tic Tac Toe. While during the 70s and 80s rapidly computers where allowed into homes whith simple computer programmes. In 1969 the 1st console gaming machine was sold and soon after a game called PONG made by Atari was sold which was one of the most successful game of that time.

And over time the computer games kept evolving from Dots and black and white games, to 2D colored environments to now 3D one so close to real life realizm.

On the personal note.. i still can remember my 1st computer game. It was Before windows was installed into my computer. it was a 2D ( extremely simple 2D) game where you play as a ninja and fighting enemies thru each level.