People have been playing video games in their homes since 1973 when Atari released the pong video game and sold nearly 100,000 units in its lifetime. Video games were unsuccessful for the next day and companies crashed because the lack of interest. In 1985 Nintendo changed the future of gaming companies and gamers alike. The Nintendo Entertainment System came out with titles like The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Brothers which paved the way for console after console. The handheld Game Boy came out then the Sega Genesis followed by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System aka SNES. PlayStation debuted with the PlayStation 1 and soon after that the PlayStation 2 hit the market. Nintendo decided to compete by creating the Nintendo GameCube which had relative success. Xbox followed that trend by coming out with the Xbox and Xbox 360 before any other major consoles produced their next advance in gaming. Nintendo debuted the Wii which was followed by the PlayStation three. After a slow start in its beginning gaming has revolutionized the hobbies of children today. There is no way to know what the next breakthrough will be or when it will come but you can be sure it’s coming. It may have a large focus on the newish gained popularity of online gaming or even the motion activated controls like the Wii. One thing for sure is that the next generation of kids will be hooked on the next generation of games. Will they be better for it? Or is the future full of socially inept citizens?
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I think that this is a very interesting topic of discussion. I have to wonder with the history of gaming you discuss, where does computer gaming come into play? How has the internet created a virtual community where players can now talk to each other and form teams? Does a society that interacts as characters online with other characters online really differ from reality? After all, we're all kind of playing a role in society, right?
ReplyDeleteOnline gaming followed a similar timeline in advancements of technology like graphics that gaming consoles did. the biggest difference was the depth of RPGs (Role Playing Games) online and it interactions in gaming forums were developed sooner. With the internet linking all the gamers together it pioneered the online gaming and chatting during gameplay. With things like xbox live and online gameplay for the PlayStation 3 consoles are as easy to game online as cpu gaming. Online gamers seem to create their own society within the internet. Dependong on how extensively the people are involved some people have their separate lives online which affects their social lives and their actions in reality.
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