Video Games And Its Effect On Society

The very first ‘Video Game’ was invented by Edward U. Condon in 1940, At first it was a simple game called ‘Nim’. In nim players try to avoid picking up the last match. Thousands of people played it, although the computer won at least 90% of the games. Around ten years later in 1950, a new computer program was created by Claude Shannon for the game of chess. In autumn of 1972 the first gaming console was released by ‘Magnavox’ and they called it the Odyssey. Three years later, the next big gaming console arrived when Sears sold the first ‘Atari Pong.’ This was the beginning of a long partnership between Atari and Sears. This relationship lasted multiple years, and Sears sold several successful games. Multiple years later in 1985, Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System. This new gaming console dominated the Gaming Industry and grew Nintendo’s Company. Nintendo created several gaming console legends, such as the Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advanced, Nintendo Gamecube, Gameboy Advanced SD, and Nintendo DS, all of which made a huge impact on everybody’s childhood from 1985 to 2005. In the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Playstation and Xbox also started releasing consoles. They are still to this day making successful Gaming Consoles, and individual games, as well as Xbox and Playstation.

Despite the new competition, Nintendo still held strong. However, Sony and Microsoft had more resources to produce advanced devices. Nintendo released Gamecube in 2001, however, the Xbox and Playstation 2 offered popular franchises, such as Final Fantasy and Gran Turismo. At end of the year, The Gamecube just sold 7 million, and Playstation 2 sold 17 million. In 2006, Nintendo sold about 22 million Gamecubes, Microsoft sold about 25 million Xboxes, and Sony sold 150 million Playstation 2s.

Namco, based in Japan, was one of the first to enter the Golden Era of arcade video games. (“The History of”) One of their most famous games was, and still today is Pac-Man. (“The History of”) Pac-Man is the only video game that is still in production today and is still distributed by Namco. (“The History of”)

When the NES came out Nintendo started a licensing company for third party games to produce their games in Nintendo factories. After the NES was created Nintendo redesigned the Famicom (the game cartridge) to look like a VHS tape to help grip the system grip it better. Also, the rarest game in NES history is the boxed version of Stadium Events, “but only a handful of boxed, complete copies have ever been seen in the wild, and they can fetch anywhere from $35,000-45,000 at auction” (www.usgamer.net). The best selling game in NES history was Super Mario Bros as it sold a total of 40 million copies (www.usgamer.net). Before the NES came along, Donkey Kong was the king of gaming. The reason for this is because arcades were the only way to play at the time. Luckily, NES games were playable in the arcades. Games like Ninja Gaiden and Super Mario Bros were stretched into the arcades by a system called Play-Choice10. In conclusion, the NES was part of a revolution in

Even since the first GameBoy has appeared on television and magazines, video gaming has flooded the game industry. The classic game of Pong where two players control a console which allows them to use a flat white line on the screen to play a game of tennis was the first arcade game to ever receive a universal acclaim. The first gaming console was introduced in 1967 by a German born television engineer who invented a gaming console that connects to the television, called the Brown Box.

Kids were hooked on games in the arcades and wanted to bring the experience into the household. Nowadays, video games are a big market and throughout the past few years, the industry has boomed into a very large business where big companies like Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft are fighting to be the best. Because there are so many games for these systems and because it is such a big business, stores specialising in only these games are opening everywhere. The big competition between these companies accounts for the rapid development of computer games in the past few years. Since they keep bringing out new games, they get better and better.

After the NES, there was the Game Boy, which came out in 1989, which is Nintendo's second-highest selling console. Then, in 1990, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES, came out and sold 49.1 million systems. Then came the Virtual Boy in 1995, the Nintendo 64, or N64, in 1996, and the GameCube in 2001. With even more systems came the Nintendo DS in 2004, the Wii in 2006, the Wii U in 2012, and after a few other systems including, the 2DS, the 3DS, and the 3DS XL, came the most current system, the Switch, which was presented to the world in 2017, and has many redone games because the graphics are pretty realistic. And this is how far the NES has come over the

Shigeru Miyamoto single-handedly saved the console market with his wit and with his keen eye for design. With Nintendo he made one of his earliest and most successful products and consoles. This console was the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and it was brought onto the market when console gaming was dying. The thing that made this console flourish in a dying market was its many

launches in the history of Nintendo’s gaming industry since the product was also introduced in

Video games have progressed immensely in price and technology over the past thirty years making them more popular then ever. Video games were originally for arcades, then came the first home console. The graphics have changed a lot since the first console game. Games colors were originally just black and white now they have more colors then you can think of. Not all businesses made it through competition of other businesses.

more than two billion games since 1985. Its top-selling series included non-violent and easyto-play games such as Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda. The huge success of its

The video game industry has changed a lot since its inception, and a large part of that is due to the video game crash of 1983. Despite this, the market itself has remained roughly the same except for the actual devices in it. The quality of the video games has drastically improved over the years. Unfortunately, something that will never change are the greedy companies looking for a quick buck. While the video game industry has grown and improved since the crash, some similarities are starting to arise.

Nintendo then began selling a major part of their progress to the company today, the Beam Gun series of games. When the idea of arcade games was found, they ended up creating arcade games, one of which was Donkey Kong. Nintendo then started creating video games for consoles, and then then created one of their own, the Family Computer System, or Famicom. However, they ran into trouble even before they started selling video games in America, because people were buying exported systems from Japan. Fortunately, Nintendo realized the problem, that too many other companies were flooding the market with bad games. Then, in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, was released in America. Nintendo received major success. Unfortunately, Nintendo was hated by fans and other licensees for putting microchips in their products so they couldn’t be replicated. Nintendo survived by striking deals with Pepsi and Toys ‘R’ Us for special distribution deals. That’s the history of Nintendo, how they started as a playing card company, and evolved into a video game company.

From the classic plumber in the red jumpsuit to the first ever motion-controlled console, the classic and most iconic video game company have been revolutionising the world of entertainment since their debut in the console market in 1983.

Sega, a game console company at that time released Dreamcast in 2000 but afterwards quit the market and re-entered the market solely as games developer. Reason being, it cannot keep up with the pace of innovation and its product was not conform to dominant design at that time.