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Video games have a history of more than 50 years and have been well documented. This is a summary of the most important milestones in the history of video game.
Video games can go back to 1952. It was ASDouglas who created the first game documented computer "Morpion".
The first American to invent interactive video games was William A. Higginbotham. He invented "Tennis for Two" in 1958. In 1962, Steven Russell created "Space War".
In 1971, Nolan Bushnell created the first play arcade style "Computer Space." Ralph Baer, later known as the "father of videogames", created the first home game console, the Odyssey, can play 12 games different.
The first multi-game Console, Atari 2600, with the plug-in cartridges that information Game Store was released in 1977. 1978 Magnavox saw transferor – a console system that includes a full keyboard 49 key Odyssey 2.
The popular Pac-Man was brought to the United States by the company Japan, Namco, Midway, in partnership with America in 1980. Pac-Man is the first game to have a cartoon character with his own name.
Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto created Donkey Kong, the introduction of "Mario" as a character in four different levels. Miyamoto has become a giant industry, followed by a series of games to success begins with Donkey Kong in 1981.
Software giant Microsoft has jumped on the bandwagon in 1982 and released its first version of "Flight Simulator".
The Americans, hitherto used to play on systems slow systems with almost negligible Sound, were overwhelmed by the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), released in 1986. NES had 8-bit graphics color, develop sound effects and fast play.
Considering that video games have grown popular and dependence, a bunch of games that were racist, pornographic and violent based on the market. This tends to fuel streaks Barbarian players began with Custer's Revenge in 1983. This type of game reached boiling point with the release of Mortal Kombat in 1992. The extreme violence in Mortal Kombat, lead to an investigation by the Senate in 1993.
Following the Senate inquiry, the Entertainment Software Association established the Entertainment Software Rating Board in 1994. The committee began by giving notice and video information and the contents of the computer game. The ESRB has changed since 6 votes and 31 descriptions of content that each slot game in a private category.
While the Games were becoming richer in content and presentation technology available to play games is not the best we would have liked it. The systems were either too expensive or lacked the finesse to play the games. To break this spell in 1999, Sega released Dreamcast System. Dreamcast with its innovative technology – Memory Card VMS / PDA and built 56kbps modem for online play – has been described by Popular Science magazine as "one of the most important and innovative of 1999. "
Technology at its best is available in the gaming industry. Sony released the 128-bit Play Station 2 – the first console to use DVD technology – with graphic capabilities that were better than that available on a PC. This is one key milestones of 2000.
Hoping to capitalize on the popularity of video games, USARMY, sacrificed the game America's Army free. The motive was to attract new recruits to the army. The game ended up being the best online gambling action in the country in 2002.
While the army was using video games in a positive way, citizens were concerned about the impact of "Cop Killer" game. Decide that was enough, Washington State signed a law prohibiting the sale or rental of COP-killer games to minors. This historic settlement, collage offenders up to $ 500, entered into force in 2003.
What has been listed here only on what can be termed as major steps in the evolution of video games and do not pretend to be a calendar of events in the history of video games.
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What do you think about early retirement of Sega Dreamcast?
Do you think if Sega hadnt gone down, adding the feature DVD to the Dreamcast, it would have been the one of the best principles of meaning-generation consoles (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube)
I understand why low, (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft) However, if Sega had a better advertising campaign, I think it would have been better. Even still, this is a fun time for respond to this because I just did play the Dreamcast for the first time in a year
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