Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A Closer look at the Beginnings of Gaming

Video games have become a vast and popular part of today's culture, but not many people know much about how they made their first debut. Here is a short overview of how video games made their mark. It all began back in the 1970's with the company named Atari, and a man by the name of Nolan Bushnell. Similar to many of the successfull men of today's time, he started as an average man with an extraordinary idea. Starting with the game of Pong, Bushnell made his big break in the video game industry. As history looks back at this first step towards gaming's big impact, Nolan Bushnell was, and still is characterized as the Father of video games.


    
Nolan Bushnell

 
Atari Logo


As the 1970's began to come to a close, and newer games began to become popular, Atari decided to meet the competition by creating newer games of their own. This led to games such as Centipede, Asteroids, Pac Man, and several other popular games as well. Eventually though, Nolan ended up selling Atari over to a company that presented him an offere he felt he couldnt refuse. From then on though, Video games continued to grow and expand in variety through newer and newer ideas. Although this mayonly be a fraction of the full beginnings of the video game world, but to go into all the info would take a bit too long for one blog alone. For now though, I will leave gaming history there, but feel free to look into the topic if you are interested to learn more, or feel free to ask any questoins you may have. Here is a video as well that may answer any present questions some of you may have.




I really felt this would be a good way to start things off, so as to give you guys a bit of an inside look at how video games got their start. For my next post, I will probly be going into some new and upcoming releases, and possibly some reviews on older games. If anyone has any ideas on any games they would like to know more about as well, I am up for any suggestions.



Till then, this is Gamer's Evolution, helping you stay in the zone, and in the know on all things gaming.  
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2 comments:

  1. hockeyfan2016February 25, 2013 at 11:05 AM

    I might have watched the video until I realized that I would just fall asleep 5 min into this boring video.

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    1. Joshua EdmondsonMarch 17, 2013 at 10:30 PM

      Thanks for the feedback, and I know what you mean about the video. I personally felt that the video was good for some parts, but the whle video is a bit long. I'll work on using better videos for my next posts.

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