video+game+history

while there were some other things like video games before this, video games realy started in the 1970's with the first generation of consoles(1972-1977). mostly consisting of pong clones, pong is a game in which you move one bar and your opponent moves another bar trying to block the ball, the person who fails to block the ball loses, one of the first video games ever. in this period one or two games would be in the console itself. then there was the video game crash brought on from so many pong clones

then came the second generation of consoles (1977-1983), it is at this time that they started using cartridges, things that held the game within itself, just place the cartrige in the console and you an play it. this included atari and other companies, most games back then had one developer who did everything.

Then another video game crash happend, reasons ranging from third party companies to the terreble port of packman and the E.T. video game. To be honest I dont know that much about 1st and 2nt gen. but I have played one of each of the rest one way or another. this is third generation(1983-1995) the 8-bit era. this started when nintendo riseed from the ashes with the nintendo entertainment system, it had such classics such as super mario brothers, the legend of zelda, mega man, metroid, yea, this gen introduced many seires that are still around today, and those were just nintendo. the only other console I could think of here would be the master system that no-one remembers. Then came the fourth gen (1989-1999) the 16-bit era. This era started out with the sega genesis, shortly falowed by the super nintendo entertainment system with some of the best games of all time, in my opinion. then Sega made sonic the hedgehog and Nintendo and Sega were forever rivals. this is also the time when handheld games came, such as the gameboy and gamegear. This is also the point where arcade games stopped being as popular because of the improvements in consoles. Then came fifth gen. (1993-2006) the gen of early 3-d, this generation started the making of 3-d titles, it also introduced us to games on disks, not cartridges. it started out with __great__ systems like the jaguar 3DO( dang, I forgot sarcasm does not work on the internet). Then came the Saturn, PlayStation, and Turbografix-16, the Sony PlayStation is probably the only one you have heard of. Then Nintendo released the Nintendo 64, but that was not the last Nintendo console of the generation, Nintendo also released the virtual boy. a terrible console that should never again see the light of day. 60 Now we are at generation 6 (1998-present). this generation started with the dreamcast, Sega's final console. then came the GameCube, Xbox, and PlayStation 2, it is at this point in which Sega became a third party company. and the Gameboy advance was released as well. It also brang up a new thing, online multiplayer. , Now we are at seventh gen (2004-present). this gen started with the ds and psp, two handheld consoles. it then got the playstation 3, xbox360, and wii. the ps3 and xbox360 are both hd consoles with little difference between them. but the wii is not hd but has motion conntrol, now if you move the controler something happens. the wii also capitalized on casula gaming. not much else I can say. now for the final gen for now the eighth gen (2012-present). this gen is recent, microsoft and sony are making motion sensors while nintendo will make an hd console. nintendo has already realesed the 3ds, a real 3d console, and microsoft and sony have realesed kinect and move. not much else i can say.