Video systems - Game Then and Now

Atari, SEGA, Nintendo and Sony Play Station are just a few of the many video game systems, which were very popular in recent decades. The baby boomers have seen the emergence of video game systems, while raising their children, and now watching their grandchildren.

The first home video game system was available in 1972. He was called the Magnavox Odyssey. The main games shown here had a game of tennis and a play of light firearms. There have been no new devices available until 1976, when Fairchild Camera and Instruments has just released her system called the Video Entertainment System. This was the first system to have the cartridges, the player traded to a cartridge change this. In 1977, Atari arcade game put out money in the restaurants. These games were so successful that Atari decided to create their own home video game system, which uses cartridges, called the 2600. Some of the games available for the Atari 2600, were Space Invaders, Battlezone, and the ever-popular Pac-Man. While the world between 1980 a company called Nintendo has created a game called Donkey Kong, which was also played on the 2600. The game is based on a plumber who tried to save his girlfriend from a mad monkey named Donkey Kong. The plumber was called later, Mario.

Things remained relatively calm the video game industry until about 1985, when Nintendo created the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). Around the same time, Sega has created a Sega Master System in competition with the NES.

In 1989, the game has become portable. Nintendo Game Boy and Sega Genesis. These are essentially small-held versions of these systems of larger companies. They also had smaller cartridges that have been traded out to change games.

In 1995, Sony joined with John Phillips, to create the first video game system at home, which would use CDs instead of cartridges for their games. Then the Sony Play Station was introduced. Nintendo and Sega has also created a similar system, but the Sony Play Station end surmounted.

More than a decade later, the now highly successful Nintendo Wii (pronounced WE), Sony, Xbox 360, and systems for handhelds, probably the Sony PSP. Nintendo Wii, allows a player to use a portable wireless remote view and their own body movements to control how their character moves on the screen. This is great for adding and physical activity for game play as before, all that was required was watching TV, the game controls were directly connected to networks with their son or cables. In addition, Sony has XBOX 360 Live functionality, allowing players to see other people around the world playing simultaneously. And the Sony PSP, the portable version, hand-held Sony Play Station, they say the best graphics and the realistic feel and look to the characters of the game.

Echo-boomers have experienced great growth in the gaming industry, growth is certain to continue to evolve.

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