This document summarizes information about video games and gaming consoles. It discusses major game companies like Bungie, Activation, and EA. It provides a timeline of early consoles from 1972-2006. It also answers questions about the first video game (Pong), its creators, and popular consoles before the Xbox 360 and PS3. Modern consoles discussed include the Xbox 360 and PS3. Top games currently and their publishers are also listed. The document concludes with information about the growth of the game industry in recent years.
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game that was developed by “Infinity Ward” and later published by Activision. The self-titled “Call of Duty” is the very first installment to the series and franchise; it was released on October 29 in 2003 for platforms such as Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, PC, Mac and many more.
Call of Duty is a first-person shooter video game that was developed by “Infinity Ward” and later published by Activision. The self-titled “Call of Duty” is the very first installment to the series and franchise; it was released on October 29 in 2003 for platforms such as Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, PC, Mac and many more.
Barcamp Derry (Side A) - A Brief History of Video GamesJames Burke
Part 1 of a presentation I put together for the informal "unconference" Barcamp Derry. Unfortunately I've had to change the fonts so its not quite as good looking as it was when I presented it. I've included some videos as hyperlinks and some as Youtube inserts.
The first computer games go back to the 50s when a nought and crosses game was created using an EDSAC computer. An effort at MIT ten years later led to a the multiplayer Spacewar game developed in a PDP-1. Even though these games were primitive, a game industry was born with the first games available in special locations – arcades. Today’s games are produced with modest Hollywood budgets and some are selling more than box-office hits.
he Internet is becoming a practical platform for the games. The growth is in both on-line games and connectivity of games. A new genre of games has appeared – casual games. These are simple and short games that people can play for short sessions.
In this lecture we look at computer games and the gaming market. Also we cover the impact of gaming and the trends.
The first computer games go back to the 50s when a nought and crosses game was created using an EDSAC computer. An effort at MIT ten years later led to a the multiplayer Spacewar game developed in a PDP-1. Even though these games were primitive, a game industry was born with the first games available in special locations – arcades. Today’s games are produced with modest Hollywood budgets and some are selling more than box-office hits.
he Internet is becoming a practical platform for the games. The growth is in both on-line games and connectivity of games. A new genre of games has appeared – casual games. These are simple and short games that people can play for short sessions.
In this lecture we look at computer games and the gaming market. Also we cover the impact of gaming and the trends.
The first computer games go back to the 50s when a nought and crosses game was created using an EDSAC computer. An effort at MIT ten years later led to a the multiplayer Spacewar game developed in a PDP-1. Even though these games were primitive, a game industry was born with the first games available in special locations – arcades. Today’s games are produced with modest Hollywood budgets and some are selling more than box-office hits.
Games are powerful. People can spend a lot of time playing games. Games are also great motivators. People do things that don´t even like, if they feel like they are playing game. Gamififcation is the use of game mechanics to motivate people to do stuff they generally would not do.
The first computer games go back to the 50s when a nought and crosses game was created using an EDSAC computer. An effort at MIT ten years later led to a the multiplayer Spacewar game developed in a PDP-1. Even though these games were primitive, a game industry was born with the first games available in special locations – arcades. Today’s games are produced with modest Hollywood budgets and some are selling more than box-office hits.
In this lecture we look at computer games and the gaming market. Also we cover the impact of gaming and the trends.
The first computer games go back to the 50s when a nought and crosses game was created using an EDSAC computer. An effort at MIT ten years later led to a the multiplayer Spacewar game developed in a PDP-1. Even though these games were primitive, a game industry was born with the first games available in special locations – arcades. Today’s games are produced with modest Hollywood budgets and some are selling more than box-office hits.
In this lecture we look at computer games and the gaming market. Also we cover the impact of gaming and the trends.
AQA Project
PAPATHANASSIS D., PANTAZIS P., TRAKAS I., PANTAZIS L. (Junior High Doukas School)
Supervisor: Yannis Kotsanis
The Glogster EDU version...
http://game4.edu.glogster.com/game-history
1. The world of games
Welcome to my Power Point which is
where I’ll be talking about video games
and the consoles. I will talk about what
game companies are big at the moment
and what sort of games they sell. I will
also talk about the history of games and
consoles.
2. Game companies
• Bungie.
• Activation.
• Square enix.
• Capcom.
• Treyarch.
• EA.
• Jagex.
These are only a few big
game companies.
4. History of games
1. What was the first video game?
Answer 1
2. Who created the first game?
Answer 2
3. What games consoles came Answer 3
before the 360 and ps3?
http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2029221,00.html
5. Question answer 1
1. The first game was called Pong or
table tennis as some know it by.
Back
6. Question answer 2
2. The first electronic game was made by 2 guys who
known as Thomas T Goldsmith and Estle Ray
Mann.
Back
7. Question answer 3
3. There has been a lot of game and
console before the 360 and the PS3
like the Atari and the Genesis.
Back
8. Modern day games/consoles
•PS3
•Xbox 360. Top ten games in the
UK. •The PS3 is Xbox’s biggest
•Most kids play Xbox 360. competitor.
•Most known console. 1. Crisis 3 •2nd most known console.
2. Fifa 13
•Has arcade games. 3. MGS: Revengeance •Has big games like MGS4
•360 can play their original 4. COD: Black ops 2 and My Little Big Planet
Xbox games as well. 5. Far Cry 3 1/2.
6. Need For Speed: •Has got Blu-ray.
•Biggest game is the Most Wanted
Orange Box. 7. Aliens: Colonial •Their console is quieter as
•If the system shuts down Marines it uses 30% less power
it doesn't lose saved data 8. Dead Space 3 than any other system.
due to removable hard 9. Assassin's Creed 3 •Online is free
drive. 10. Hitman Absolution
•You can connect to online
with your PSP or PS via
through PS3
9. PC and Flash games
PC can be considered the best Flash games are small little
gaming console ever as the PC games that can be made
can play all games that come out by using tools like Flashkit
as the games are made for a PC and Sploder. There are
format. many other tools you can
use but they are the more
popular.
Flash games that can be
It’s much easier to play online
played on the PC and
on the 360 or PS3. But people
small applications like
make mods for PC games so
your phone.
you can play and experience
more with PC games.
10. Top games at the moment.
This is a average price of the games
at the moment. I got these prices off
1. Crisis 3
Amazon. The price will change over
2. Fifa 13
time due to sales and the age of the
3. MGS: Revengeance
game.
4. COD: Black Ops 2
5. Far Cry 3
6. Need For Speed:
Most Wanted
7. Aliens: Colonial
Marines
8. Dead Space 3
9. Assassin's Creed 3
10. Hitman Absolution
http://www.chart-
track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110015
11. Top ten games and publishers
Game Amazon rating Publisher
Crisis 3 EA Games
4 stars
Fifa 13 EA Sports
4 stars
MGS: Revengeance Konami
3 ½ stars
COD: Black Ops 2 Activision Blizzard
3 ½ stars
Far Cry 3 Ubisoft
4 ½ stars
Need For Speed: Most Electronic Arts
Wanted
4 stars
Aliens: Colonial Marines Sega
3 stars
Dead Space 3 Electronic Arts
4 stars
Assassin's Creed 3 Ubisoft
4 stars
Hitman Absolution Square Enix
4 stars
12. Game industry over time.
Just over the last few years the The graph show the amount of money
game industry has blown up and the US makes off game sales from the
made a insane amount of sales. 1995-2008
Only from big companies like
these there is about 245.6 million
game sales each year.