History of 90s Video Games & My Perspective Corey Bates Bachelor’s Degree Argosy University Abstract My purpose of this paper is to talk about one of the greatest and mostly everyone’s favorite generation of video games which is the 1990’s. It’s important that we look back at how gaming changed the world during a rebellious time it’s was the 90’s good guys were out bad guys were coming in. Sony, Nintendo & Sega were in a war trying to see who the better console is. The console wars made the 90’s great so many games, so much entertainment being a kid was awesome. Once I finish talking about the history and explaining everything moment by moment and it’s importance, ill discuss my experiences as a gamer growing up in the 90s and just being a …show more content…
It’s also began the rise of certain genres of gaming from shooters to fighters and the debut of online gaming and playing games with your mobile or handheld devices. During the late 1980’s Sega’s Genesis was introduced as the leading console beating out Nintendo’s NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) and becoming the number one gaming console in the world. Graphics on the Genesis made Nintendo’s console feel like it didn’t belong and it was the thing of the past so they need someone to lead the charge and created their own mascot and his name was Sonic. In early 1991 Sonic the hedgehog was made available for genesis users and everything changed no one wanted to play with a plumber who chased around for a princess Sonic became the new king in video game history. However over at Nintendo their system was not doing so well and needed an upgrade just before they can do an upgrade Sega once again dropped another bombshell Sonic 2 was on the way and was going to be better than first game and was going to be released in November of 1992. In the same year Nintendo released their upgrade the Super NES which came with Super Mario, Zelda and basically turned around Nintendo’s credibility but sadly when it came overseas no one was really buying anything Nintendo. During the early years of the 90’s gaming went through a rebellious change just like the time controversy was all of the rage so for these two games started one of the biggest moment’s in history. Mortal Kombat one of the greatest fighting games of all time and Doom another big fps game (First Person Shooter) became infamous because of the violent nature of both games which unfortunally people in congress didn’t like which all gaming companies had to comply with now the ESRB (Entertainment Software Rating Board) all games must have a rating E-M and even including Adults Only in recent years. Over the next years
During the 1990’s the video games were constantly changing.this decade saw tons of innovations in the gaming industry. The creation of 32-bit games and 3D games dominated the virtual world: Contra, Battletoads, Mortal Kombat, etc. Video game genres developed and branched out, creating some of the popular genres in video games today, such Role-playing games(RPGs),
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An examination of videogames in popular culture is a complicated one. There is a large debate as to what is the very first video game. The supposed earliest known video game was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube in 1947. The game was a missile simulator similar to radar displays from World War II, and overlaid sheets of paper were used for targets since graphics were unknown at this time. On May 5, 1951, the NIMROD computer was presented in Britain. It used a panel of lights for its display and was used to play a game called “NIM”. Later, in 1952, Alexander S. Douglas made the first compu...
Kent, S. (2001). The Ultimate History of Video Games. New York City, New York: Three Rivers Press.
Video games started as arcade machines with simple graphics and even simpler stories, soon evolving into home gaming with The Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first home-gaming console. It invaded living rooms in 1972, selling 300,000 units. Since then there has been many consoles and games released, some have been huge commercial successes which
The 1980s were a different time period. People start getting better ideas and those ideas were advancing history. A major thing that was part of the 1980s were vehicles. Vehicles were people's transportation. Vehicles were advancing at that time in the 80s some of the first production car were being introduced to fuel injection. Cars were starting to evolve and high horsepower started becoming a factor as well. Movies were another big part of the 80s because graphics and actors were becoming better.
The result is a new breed of fresh and exciting game genres that people in the early 1980s could only dream about. Video games is a huge industry and it is estimated that 70% of U.S homes will own a Video game system by the year 2005 (Cassandra, 2002). The idea of making a video game first appeared in 1949 when a young engineer named Ralph Baer was given an assignment to build the absolute, best of all televisions. He wanted to go beyond his original assignment and incorporate some kind of game into the set but it would take another 20 years for his idea to become a reality.
The 1980’s, a remarkable decade that started from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1989. The most significant events in the 1980’s was the Economic doings of “Reaganomics”, Social Movements of women’s rights, Foreign Affairs of the Cold War. Many other events were included like Science & Technology, Arts & Entertainment, and Politics.Admittedly, many would argue that the Economic, Social, and Foreign Affairs wouldn’t be the highlight of the 80’s but let’s take a look on why others might oppose to that thought.
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Millionaires back then were like billionaires today. You were considered extremely wealthy to have hundreds of thousands of dollars. The 20’s were very well known for jazz, sex, alcohol, and money. One of the wealthiest man in the 19 20’s was rockefeller, he was the peak of wealth with 340 billion. He was one of the most wealthiest persons of all time he is ranked in the top 10 in the world. Joseph kennedy was also very wealthy with 400 million dollars. Charles ponzi was had 8.5 million dollars.The 1920s are perhaps best framed as the age of capitalism for the masses.during the Gilded Age of the late 1800s it produced some of the United States biggest industrialist names – names like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Carnegie – the Jazz age
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Video games have come a long way. They have evolved from the simple game of Pong into a complex, multi-platform, multi-genre, multi-billion dollar industry.
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Society in the 1980s saw games as distraction and a waste of time. Arcade games in 1981 were regarded as a reason for cutting classes. Children and the youth were banned from playing arcade games during school hours and past ten in the evening on weekdays, and past midnight on weekends. Laws against children playing in arcades during the banned hours were implemented in order to prevent further disturbances in their studies (Kent 152). Games to the people in the 1980s were merely forms of entertainment that brought about many video game addicts. However, in the early 1980s video game consoles and personal computers were globally popular. This was because most of the machines that had enough power to...
Video games first appeared in the early 1970's. It all started with a simple white ball bouncing back and forth on the screen. In 1986, Nintendo introduced its first line of home video game consoles. With the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on the market, the home video gaming industry surged and immediately became popular among children. Since then, not only have video games increased in popularity, but there have been vast improvements in graphics, game play, and forms of gaming.