Blog post #5 The history of video games

 Video games are a popular pastime whether you're playing with family, playing by yourself, or playing online with friends. aside from being a pastime because of YouTube and twitch people make money from playing video games so now its a job too. since there are multiple games and multiple creators for each there will not be just one creator of video games now lets look at the history of video games from history.

In 1952 British Professor A.S. Douglas Created OXO Known as noughts and crosses and more commonly known as tic-tac-toe and while it isn't a video game yet the idea of video games had to have come from games like tic-tac-toe.

in 1958 William Higinbotham created tennis for two on a large analog computer and oscilloscope

in 1962 Steve Russell invented spacewar! for the PDP-1 then a cutting edge computer. it was the first video game that could be played on multiple computer installations

in 1967 sanders associate's developers led by Ralph Baer invented a prototype multiplayer, multi-program video game system that could be played on television known as "The Brown Box"

in 1972 Baer is sometimes referred to as the father of video games. Baer licensed his device to Magnavox which sold the system to consumers as the Odyssey (the first home game console). the odyssey would eventually fizzle and die out.

in 1975 Atari released a home version of pong which was as successful as its arcade counterpart. eventually Magnavox and Sanders Associates sued Atari for copyright Infringment. Atari settled and became an odyssey licensee; over the next 20 years Magnavox won more than 100 million dollars in copyright lawsuits related to the odyssey and its video game patents

in the late 1970s and early 1980s the space invaders arcade game got released in 1978. Activision the first third-party game developer got launched in 1979. pac-man was introduced to the united stated. Nintendo's creation of Donkey Kong introduced the world to Mario. Microsoft released its first Flight Simulator game

1983 brought the video game crash for the north American video game industry due to an oversaturated game console market, competition from computer games and a surplus of over-hyped low-quality games such as E.T. by Atari. the crash led to the bankruptcy of several home computer and video game console companies.

in 1985 the video game industry started to recover when the Nintendo Entertainment System called Famicom in Japan came to the U.S. the NES improved 8-bit graphics, colors, sound and gameplay over the older consoles. Nintendo also imposed various regulations on third-party games developed for its system.

1989 Nintendo made waves by popularizing handheld gaming with the release of the Game Boy. over 25 years Nintendo released a number of successful successors to the Game Boy including the Game Boy color in 1998, the Nintendo DS in 2004, and the Nintendo 3DS in 2011.

Sega released its 16-bit genesis console in north America as a successor to its 1986 Sega Master System which failed to compete against the NES. with superior technology, clever marketing, and the release of sonic the hedgehog in 1991 the genesis made significant headway against its older rival.

the early to mid 1990s had a release of a wealth of popular games on both the NES and the Sega Genesis. Sega created the videogame rating council in  1993 to respond to violent video games. this council starts the industry-wide Entertainment Software Rating Board which is still rating games today.