ideo Games have a history console, Atari 2600, with plug-in
of over 50 years and have cartridges that store game
been well documented. This information was released in 1977.
is a synopsis of the most 1978 saw Magnavox releasing - a
important milestones in the console system that includes a
history of video gaming. full 49 key keyboard- Odyssey 2.
Video games can be dated back to The popular Pac-Man was brought
1952. It was A.S.Douglas who to the United States by the
created the first documented Japanese Company, Namco, in
computer game “Noughts and partnership with America's Midway
Crosses.” in 1980. Pac-Man is the first
game to have an animated
The first American to invent an character with its own name.
interactive video game was
William A. Higginbotham. He Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
invented "Tennis for Two" in created Donkey Kong, introducing
1958. In 1962, Steven Russell "Mario" as a character, in four
created “Space war.” different levels. Miyamoto went
on to become an industry giant
In 1971, Nolan Bushnell created followed by a string of
the first coin arcade style game successful games beginning with
“Computer Space.” Ralph Baer, Donkey Kong in 1981.
later known as "the father of
video games", created the first Software giant Microsoft jumped
home game console, The Odyssey, on the bandwagon in 1982 and
capable of playing 12 different released its first version of
games. “Flight Simulator.”
The first multi-game home The Americans, hitherto used to
play games on slow systems with has since evolved 6 ratings and
almost negligible sound systems, 31 content descriptions that slot
were overwhelmed by the Nintendo every game into a particular
Entertainment System (NES) category.
released in 1986. NES had 8-bit
color graphics, elaborate sound While the games were growing rich
effects and faster game play. in content and presentation, the
technology available to play the
As video games grew popular and games was not as best as one
addictive, a slew of games that would have liked it to be. The
were racist, pornographic and systems were either too pricey or
violent to the core, hit the lacked the finesse to play the
market. This trend of feeding to games. Breaking this spell in
the barbaric streaks in gamers 1999, Sega released Dreamcast
began with Custer's Revenge in System. Dreamcast with its
1983. This type of gaming reached groundbreaking technology - VMS
a boiling point with the release memory card/PDA and built in
of Mortal Kombat in 1992. The 56kbps modem for online play -
extreme violence in Mortal was described by Popular Science
Kombat, lead to a Senate Magazine as “one of the most
Investigation 1993. important and innovative products
of 1999.”
Following the Senate
Investigation, the Entertainment Technology at its best is
Software Association established available in the video game
The Entertainment Software Rating industry. Sony released the 128
Board in 1994. This board began bit Play station 2 - the first
by providing ratings and console to use DVD technology -
information about video and with graphics capability that was
computer game content. The ESRB better than that available on a
PC. This is one of the major that enough was enough,
milestones of the year 2000. Washington State signed a
legislation prohibiting selling
Hoping to cash in on the video or renting cop-killer games to
game popularity, the U.S.Army, minors. This historical
gave away the game, America's regulation, fining violators’ up
Army, for free. The motive was to to $500, came into force in 2003.
attract new recruitment for the
army. The game eventually became What has been listed here is only
the top online action game in the about what can be termed as Major
country in 2002. Milestones in the evolution of
Video Games and does not claim to
While the army was using the be a calendar of events in the
video games positively, citizens history of video games.
were concerned about the impact
of “cop-killer” games. Deciding
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