History of video games 🎮

No. Hi, i'm medium invader from the classic video game space invaders. And I want to tell you a little bit about where video games came from. A video game is an electronic game that has an interface designed for human interaction. On a video device. Simple. Video games are used by scientists, the military and people like you and their evolution has spread across arcades. Consoles, computers, smartphones and all kinds of other electronics and. These days, video games are everywhere, but they were actually made in science lamps. In fact, the earliest US video impacted on record was in 1948, and at the time it was referred to as a gasoline ray tube amusement device. 

           WILLIAM HIGINBOTHAM

That's a mouthful. Some of the earliest video games include the name right computer. Hawks. Grannis virtue and my personal favorite space. But none of these early video games were ever sold in the public because they were either too huge or too expensive to get out of the lab. This all changed when a man named Ralph bear looked at his television screen and wondered how else it might be used in 1972. There is idea to get video games out of the science lab and into the living room led to the release of a game console called honesty. Allow you to play a game on tv. At about the same time, do other people knowing Bushnell and Ted Dabney were working on something similar in a little company called Atari, you might have heard of it. I mean, if you haven't, i'm sure that your dad has a darry's first major game release was in 1972 an arcade game, it was an immediate hit, and it's credited as the first commercially successful video game attorney, then released a home version of punk in 1974 by 1978 competition between attorney and another game company called midway was heading. Up midway had licensed naughty game from the Japanese company that put them on. Space invaders. It featured iconic actors like me and it went on to become the second highest earning arcade game of Paul John. Space invaders also helped kick off what is known as the golden age of arcade. In response, a jury followed with the release of the arcade game astronaut advanced sixth on the list of 5 7 arcade games. It was a good game, but it's no. By 1980. Color came to arcade games, and this was also the year that another video gaming milestone was born back man, created by the Japanese company namco was brought to the US by midway, important to the spread of video games into popular culture. Backman was a character that could be licensed. It wasn't long before it had a son in the charts with Saturday morning, daughter in show and all sorts of other products in just a year back when arcade games made over 1 billion dollars in quarters. Then in 1981, a company called Nintendo started making ways in the US video game market with their release of donkey con, it was the earliest video game to have a story line. The story went like. Donkey Kong is the pet of a carpenter named jump man jump man mysteries his bed ape, so the ape shows his girlfriend. Leaving the gamper to assume the role of jump man and rescue with the girl. Jumpman was eventually renamed to Mario other iconic arcade games in the early eighties include fragrance. Dragons layer and Mario Brothers. Perhaps the last icon again considered to be part of the golden age of arcade games is double dragon. It was the first really successful example of the beaten up genre it was released in 1987. And like donkey Kong, it featured a damsel in distress storyline. A storyline gambling in many video games. By the mid s, the golden age of arcade games was coming to an end. And the home game console was gaining in popularity, while arcade games continued to decline in sales over the years, the popularity of video games was merely beginning. We will talk about that a lot more in part two of a brief history of video games.