Real Life Simulators

The history of gaming dates back all the way to 1940 when the traditional game nim was created and displayed at the Westinghouse display at the World's Fair. it wasn't very popular and they still had a lot of work to do to come up with more appealing features. They finally came up with a big hit in 1972 with the introduction of Pong, Pong was created by atari and was a major hit and probably considered one of the main foundations to current video games of today. But this did not stop them from further innovating Pong, by 1975 atari then came out with a home version now allowing people not having to go out to arcades to play video games. By 1977 atari was the main provider of video games and was offering consols for the homes with around 30 games that they would offer. The next biggest hit to come up in the video game world was Space Invaders, it was such a big hit in japan that it caused a shortage 100-yen coins. Taito’s Space Invaders hit the American arcades and was making millions based on how challenging it was to the players. Next comes Pac-Man which is still a big hit still to this day, it was created in 1980 by Namco. After creating Pac-Man and seeing how big a seller it was two years later Namco released Miss Pac-Man which to this day is the leading best seller out of any arcade games. By 1984 puzzle games take the lead and become very popular with the game Tetris, created by Alexey Pajitnov. It became so popular that by 1988 nintendo takes tetris and adds it to their Gameboys to play like any other Gameboy games. Also in 1988 the introduction of realism in the computer game world is brought with John Madden Football. By 1989 gameboys were established to be the first handheld game consoles to use batteries to run on instead of wall plug in. By 1990 microsoft starts adding free games like solitaire to their computer systems to help add appeal to their computers. By 1993 fan favorite Mortal Kombat comes out giving …show more content…
By 2000 game creators where creating world and real life simulators, the major hit from this area was The Sims. the sims was a real life simulator where you had multiple people to control based on the decisions on how you take care of them. In 2001 Microsoft enters in on the video game stage and releases the Xbox, bringing with it classic games like Halo and other big hits. Later Microsoft will release the Xbox 360 which would be the first seamless online play consoles and which lead to many other consoles ending up bankrupt or out of business. In 2003 steam is created for online PC gamers to buy games and run them on there computers. Steam created a want for games and games that were thought only could be played on consoles could now be played on computers without the specific release of formating from the actual creators. Later in 2006 Nintendo releases the Wii and keeps up with Sony and Microsoft with big hits of classic characters like mario and sonic to keep them in the big console race to keep them up there in the “big leagues.” In 2010 Minecraft takes to the markets and develops and puts sandbox games on the