week 3, game history, 80's and 90's

in gaming the 80's and 90's consisted of the 3'rd fourth and fifth generations of computer games.

the 80's

this era was also kind of the start of online games, which back then wer more text based than anything, as they started on discussion forums and such.
around this time in the 80's during the third generations was when some major games made they're first debut's, which includes zelda, and also metal gear, which marked the start of the stealth based genre.

one of the biggest events in gaminf in this era, was the game crash of 1983, whish from what i can see is because games such as pac man, and e.t, where more cartridges than actual games consoles where made.
so what do they do then, go to mexico.
between 10 and 20 semi trailer truck loads, of e.t the extra terestrial cartridges where buried in a dump in new mexico,
they were all crushed, buried and a layer of concrete pured over the top, there reason for this being "There are dead animals down there. We wouldn't want any children to get hurt digging in the dump".

why they would make more games than consoles in beyond me but at a later date they're excuses for this was something like "We wanted people to have a second copy for their ski house"

the 90's

during the 90's we had the 4th and 5th generations of gaming.
the fourth generation, which was the one i was introduced to with my first ever console being my megadrive, was the one where alot of the most influencial games of today were made, these include, sonic the hedgehog, phantasy star, final fantasy, street fighter, and dragon quest.
newer versions of all these games are around today on the newest generation of console gaming.
this generation was also the start of the major handheld gaming system, the gameboy, whish still has newer variations of it around to this day.

in the fifth generation we had the sega saturn, and in this time sony joined the market of consoles with the playstaion and opened up the market to 3d gaming.
i'd played so-called 3d games in the past such as sonic 3d, but these were just isometric.

after this time sony was made famous by games such as metal gear solid, whish is still seen as one of the greatest games of all time. also in this time we had the n64 from nintendo, but playstation came out more succesful.

between the 80's and 90's i only owned 2 of these consoles being the megadrive and the playstaion, where i found myself kind of changing from loving the fast paced side scolling sonic games to the 3d, imense games such as metal gear solid, final fantasy 7, and other 3d titles.

and that brings us to the end to the 90's.

to be continued...........