week two, (wheres week one?)

OK, week two, game history, right.

"Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for an important entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United States, Japan, and Europe. After a disastrous collapse of the industry in 1983 and a subsequent rebirth two years later, the video game industry has experienced sustained growth for over two decades to become a $10 billion industry rivaling the motion picture industry as the most profitable entertainment industry in the world"

Ok, enough quoting from wikipedia and on with my blog,
from what i read in my studies the first electronic computer games were made way back before anyone was even thinking of making me, in 1948 i believe? anyway games back then weren't quite like they are now days, shoot em up games that are so life like you can probably even sweat, no, they wernt on Cd's you can buy from the shop, and put in your ps3,
they were made from things like vacuum columns and cathode ray tubes and oscilloscopes, an example of this being a game made out of 8 vacuum tubes, to simulate a missile firing at a target, with Lil nob things to curve and speed up and stuff along them lines, you know like in that cool ass game where you fire the torpedo down towards bouts on the horizon?
id insert a video of it, but i don't actually know how to so ill have to get back to you on that.
anyway so-far that's what i can tell was the start of electronic gaming.

although games did go on like forever before computer gmaes, like board games n shit, people managed back then, i dont think i could go too long without my ps3 now tho.

i know when i was little it was the age of the sega megadrive, and n-64 and such, but before that there was various other gaming consoles, such as the atari, famicon, comasore-64, all of which I'm actually trying to play now though emulators, not the same i know but hey,
but i think something that has been there all along is the arcade machines, pinballs machines, all the old fun ones, as far as i know allot of them are still the same as the old ones too, like when i go on holiday, which is pretty much the only time i get to play them, aside from the newer racing shooters and simulator games and such you have the old fun ones, such as metal slug, puzzle bobble,
basically what I'm trying to say is even though games have advanced along way since the vacuum tubes and oscilloscopes they old games are still just as fun as the newer ones.

we are currently in the seventh generation of games i believe? or its somewhere around there
the first generation would be games such as the very first tennis simulator, later known as pong, allot of games ran on university mainframe computers at this stage. although in 1975 a home version of pong was released, which was a big stage for gaming, this generation lasted from 1972 till 1977

from 1976 till 1984 was the second generation, this was when cpu's where being built into consoles for home gaming, some of the first consoles were Atari5200, colecovision, Sega sg-1000
all of which i have never heard of until now.

the third generation is when only a few consoles wer around, this is still apparent today with only 3 main systems, back then there was the famicon, sega master system and the Atari, this is also the era where mario came into play, other famous titles of the era that are still going today are metal gear, final fantasy, mega-man bomber man, phantasy star, and more, this generation lasted from 1983 until 1992

the fourth generation, the one i was brought up in, the age of the Sega mega drive, super Nintendo, and the game boy, i remember being a kid, playing 2d side scrollers of sonic the hedge hog and Mario, all of which would drive parents crazy with little jingles that helped make the games famous. the mega drive would have been the first one i ever got, i still have it and i still play it now, i have a ps3 now, but theres still something i love about the old sonic and Mario games, as most games nowadays seem to be about gore, and violence, which is kind of sad in a sense, yet i still play them, but on the other hand i still get allot of joy out of playing Lil kid games that make me feel happy and warm inside.

well now, I've just read that this blog is only supposed to be 1950s, till 1970s, yet i started before 1950 and finished just after 1970, o well.
until next time when i carry on with his hideously boring and tedious blog, but I'm not changing it cuz i think its interesting and i think my fellow gamers will too, yet they wont really read it because they have all probably wrote the same stuff, though their supposed to read it, anyway until next time................


TO BE CONTINUED!