The Revolution of Entertainment

The idea was to make an arcade cabinet that was smaller and only lacked a screen; the player would be able to connect the console to their television screen and be able to play from home. Atari would then release the Pong console and it would become widely regarded as the first modern video game. From this point on there were two types of video games, the arcade cabinet and the home console. But eventually the home console would beat out the cabinet and games from then on would be made for home consoles. Eventually a new rivalry would form between Nintendo and Sega corporations as they would try desperately to beat one another.

This rivalry would be some of the first to create series of games and to make their own consoles. The rivalry was so great that children would only be allowed to have one or the other’s company’s consoles, which would begin to separate gamers into different cultures. This separation is still happening today between Sony and Microsoft as the two try to make the new and better console. But before then the Nintendo Corporation would push video games into their second transformation with the development of the handheld consoles. Nintendo would release the Gameboy and with it a third type of video game console. Although these new portable games were more convenient for gamers, the home console was already too large to be over taken, so portable video games are now created alongside with home consoles.

Video games are a deviation of movies that allow the viewer to become a direct contributor to the story as it develops. So because video games are a deviation of movies it would make sense that the basic rules to how a video game should work would be different than the basic rules of movies. The rules are games ...

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