The history of video games part 2

Yup it's time for the next installment of... Emi's gaming blog! ^__^

Sooo the 80s-90s... Well, things were going okay at the start of the decade, with technological advances allowing the development of actual 3D environments in games such as 'Battlezone' and 'Monster Maze' with the use of vector graphics.

Nintendo's Game and Watch product line began in 1980 and was a

successful handheld with its superior battery power, and would later influence the design of future handhelds.

In the early 80s Pacman was achieving widespread popularity in mainstream culture, also online gaming was starting to emerge which would be the starting point for todays MMORPG.

In 1983 crappy games such as E.T for the Atari 2600 effectively brought the second generation of consoles to an end with the video game crash... but it wasn't all bad, the industry soon recovered - the 3rd generation of consoles revived the industry with games like The Legend of Zelda (^_^) being released for the NES in 1986.

Hmm so I already mentioned how I got into games... but why did I keep playing? My first Zelda game was Oracle of Seasons for the gameboy and I guess I loved that game so much that I could just play it over and over and it wouldn't get old... then I found out about others in the series so I started playing those too :D

I think my favourite of the series is Link's Awakening... I know the graphics aren't that good but it is a gameboy game after all! There was something I just really like about that game it's just so quirky and cute.

The last game I played on was Crash Bandicoot on my flat mates PS2 but I still need to bring my Gamecube to uni so maybe I'll do that when I go back home for Christmas...

Till next time!

See ya ~Emi ^o^

History of video games

Hiiii :D Wow I can't believe its November already! I've been meaning to start this blog for A WHILE but kept putting it off until now so... here it is ^_^

Uhmm my names Emily and a lot of people wouldn't think I play video games... but I do! I used to go round to my friends house when I was like 8 and play on Diddy Kong Racing and Rayman haha good times :P

Yeah I am a girly girl so I do love my fashion, shopping, makeup etc. but theres always time for games :)

When I was 10 I went on holiday to southern Spain and visited Gibraltar (yeah this does actually relate...) sooo when I was there my dad randomly asked me if I wanted a gameboy and I was like yeah awesome haha so anyway we bought one for me and my sister to share with a copy of pokemon red (oh yes) and I was hooked! My favourite games ever are Zelda games!! I LOVE them, my auntie got me into them when I was 11 so I guess I've been playing for a while :D seeee told you I played games :P

ANYWAY that's enough about me, so... the history of video games. Well I was doing some research on this and I found this really interesting video on Atari's beginnings as a company and how they came to be so successful.

The first video game ever was called 'Tennis for Two' which was made by Mr William Highinbotham in 1958 (50 years ago!! :O). It was designed to be played on a laboratory oscilloscope but it was revolutionary because you could interact with the image on the screen in order to move the ball around. I was totally expecting the first video game to be Japanese just because thats where so many of them are made nowadays so I was quite surprised when I found out that it was the Americans that pioneered them.

In 1962 a man named Steve Russell created 'Space War' for use on a computer, the worlds first fully interactive video game, with the spaceships being able to fire missiles at each other and such.

Ralph Baer created the simple video game 'Chase' which was the first to be played on a tv in 1966. I think he was considered the inventor of video games, but with all the controversy it's hard to tell.

I would upload some nice pictures to go with this but I'm still new to this whole blogging thing so I'm not really sure how to yet >.<

See ya ~Emi ^o^