History of Video Games
... One area that has incredibly evolved over time is the area of video games. ... Moreover these days the graphics of video games have become incredibly realistic and in turn the gaming industry is huge - with more than 221 million computer and video games sold in the United States alone (Swanson, 2003), furthermore annual sales are escalating tremendously fast. ... Nonetheless the improvement of video games did not happen over night - it has taken about forty years from the first idea of the video game ‘Star Wars’ to evolve to the more advanced and realistic video games of today (Sieberg, 2002). ... In order to have a better idea or understanding of the enhancement of video games’ images a popular game from every important era of the ‘history of video games’ has been chosen and discussed. Furthermore the history of video games has also been included with the hope of aiding the understanding of the enhancement of video games in general. Most likely video games of today would not be in existence if it were not for a student of technology by the name of Steve Russell - his interest in science fiction led him to create a game titled ‘Space War’ in 1962. By the end of this decade, the interest of playing video games grew amongst people; this increased interest soon built a new world, the world of arcades and by the seventies, video games could be played at home (Oxford, 2001). The history of video games can be divided in different generations: “The Games Begin” First Generation Systems (1972-1977) - one of the video games that dates back in history and is remembered as one of the first games is Pong.