Video games originated as electronic games played on computers and later gaming consoles. Some early influential games include Computer Space from 1971 and the first video game Pong from 1972. In the 1970s, arcades became popular places for multiplayer gaming and competition over high scores. As technology advanced, gaming moved to home consoles and personal computers in the 1970s-80s, opening opportunities for gamers to both play and create their own games. Today, mobile gaming, PC gaming, consoles, and virtual reality continue to evolve the gaming industry.

1. THE ORIGIN OF
VIDEO GAMES
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2. VIDEO GAMES
- A G A M E P L A Y E D B Y
E L E C T R O N I C A L L Y M A N I P U L A T I N G
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T E L E V I S I O N S C R E E N O R O T H E R
D I S P L A Y S C R E E N .
Planning, resource management and
logistics.
Multitasking, simultaneous tracking of
many shifting variables and managing
multiple objectives.
Strategy and anticipation
Some Goals of Video
Games

3. EARLY YEARS
The very first recognized
console was named to be
the “Brown Box” wherein
the device was to be
plugged in to a television
and they will be able to
play ping pong (The Very
First Video Game) made
by Atari.

4. ARCADE ERA
Sega and Taito were the first companies to pique the
public’s interest in arcade gaming when they released the
electro-mechanical games Periscope and Crown Special
Soccer in 1966 and 1967. In 1972, Atari (founded by Nolan
Bushnell, the godfather of gaming) became the
first gaming company to really set the benchmark for a
large-scale gaming community.
The nature of the games sparked competition among
players, who could record their high scores … and were
determined to mark their space at the top of the list.

5. START OF MULTIPLAYER
During the late 1970s, a number of chain
restaurants around the U.S. started to install video
games to capitalize on the hot new craze. The
nature of the games sparked competition among
players, who could record their high scores with
their initials and were determined to mark their
space at the top of the list. At this point,
multiplayer gaming was limited to players
competing on the same screen. The first example
of players competing on separate screens came in
1973 with “Empire” — a strategic turn-based
game for up to eight players — which was created
for the PLATO network system. PLATO
(Programmed Logic for Automatic Tea

6. HOME GAMING
In addition to gaming consoles becoming
popular in commercial centers and chain
restaurants in the U.S., the early 1970s also
saw the advent of personal computers and
mass-produced gaming consoles become
a reality. Technological advancements,
such as Intel’s invention of the world’s first
microprocessor, led to the creation of
games such as Gunfight in 1975, the first
example of a multiplayer human-to-
human combat shooter.

7. PERSONAL COMPUTERS:
DESIGNING GAMES AND
OPENING UP TO A
WIDER COMMUNITY
The video game boom caused by Space Invaders saw a
huge number of new companies and consoles pop up,
resulting in a period of market saturation. Too many gaming
consoles, and too few interesting, engaging new games to
play on them, eventually led to the 1983 North American
video games crash, which saw huge losses, and truckloads of
unpopular, poor-quality titles buried in the desert just to get
rid of them. The gaming industry was in need of a change.
At more or less the same time that consoles started getting
bad press, home computers like the Commodore Vic-20, the
Commodore 64 and the Apple II started to grow in
popularity. These new home computer systems were
affordable for the average American, retailing at around
$300 in the early 1980s (around $860 in today’s money), and
were advertised as the “sensible” option for the whole family.
These home computers had much more powerful
processors than the previous generation of consoles; this
opened the door to a new level of gaming, with more
complex, less linear games. They also offered the technology
needed for gamers to create their own games with BASIC
code. Even Bill Gates designed a game, called Donkey (a
simple game that involved dodging donkeys on a highway
while driving a sports car). Interestingly, the game was

8. THE FUTURE
As of now mobile gaming, pc gaming and
console gaming has been a boom to all of
millennials in this generation and also the
newly found gaming device which is the “VR”
(Virtual Reality). With these we have arrived to
a new chapter of gaming and entertainment.

9. REFERENCES
https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/31/the-
history-of-gaming-an-evolving-
community/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyG
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https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/vid
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10. THE ORIGIN OF
VIDEO GAMES