2020 has seen the explosion of possibilities in the gaming industry. With Home quarantine currently the normality in
most locations, many people have turned to video gaming as a way of escaping the confines of “Lockdown”. The gaming
industry has seen sales hit records in recent months as more people turn to their entertainment services.
Activision Blizzard, the company behind the CoD series, said an average of 407 million people had played its games
online each month in the first quarter of this year. Rival gaming giant Electronic Arts said the latest edition in its
Fifa football franchise has attracted more than 25 million players.
So how did virtual games explode onto the scene!?
The history of video games goes as far back as the early 1950s, when academic computer scientists began designing simple
games and simulations as part of their research or just for recreation. At M.I.T. in the 1960s, professors and students
played games such as 3D tic-tac-toe and Moon Landing. These games were played on computers such as the IBM 1560, and
moves were made by means of punch cards. Video games did not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when
video arcade games and video game consoles using joysticks, buttons, and other controllers, along with graphics on
computer screens and home computer games were introduced to the general public. During the 1970s, the first generation
of home consoles emerged, including the popular game Pong and various "clones". The 1970s was also the era of mainframe
computer games. The golden age of arcade video games was from 1978 to 1982. Video arcades with large, graphics-decorated
coin-operated machines were common at malls and popular, affordable home consoles such as the Atari 2600 and
Intellivision enabled people to play games on their home TVs. During the 1980s, gaming computers, early online gaming
and handheld LCD games emerged; this era was affected by the video game crash of 1983. From 1976 to 1992, the second
generation of game consoles emerged and began the journey and development of many of the Consoles we knowingly love
today.
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History of Video Games
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