Today, video games are very popular in the world. Video games make up a $100 billion global industry in 2020. People use a lot of machines to play games such as computers, game consoles and even smartphones. How these games spread the world? How did we start to play video games? Though video games are found today in homes worldwide, they actually got their start in the research labs of scientists.
The first video game ‘’OXO’’ invented by British Professor A.S. Douglas in 1952. After that, Steve Russell invented the ‘Space war’ game. Space war is very important for video game history because, it was the first video game that could be played on multiple computer installations. In 1967, Sanders Associates Company invented ‘’The Brown Box’’. Thanks to The Brown Box, video games played with television because of that reason we can say that, ‘’The Brown Box’’ is the first home console. In 1977, Atari Company released the Atari 2600. It was home console and customers loved Atari. Atari was extremely good because, it had joystick and it had multi-colored games. In 1983, because of the low-quality games video games industry affected badly. Atari company didn’t solve this problem because everyone tried to make video game for the Atari console so, this situation occurred a lot of low-quality games. In 1985, ‘’Nintendo Entertainment System’’ also called ‘’Famicom’’ in Japan came to the USA. Nintendo had 8-bit graphics, good colors and well gameplay so, people started to buy Nintendo and game industry started to rise again. Nintendo had good game franchises such as ‘’Super Mario’’, ‘’The Legend of The Zelda’’ and ‘’Metroid’’. In addition, Nintendo made big investment for the game developers and these developers did well video games. For example, Capcom made ‘’Mega Man’’, Konami made ‘’Castlevania’’ and Square made ‘’Final Fantasy’’. In 1989, Nintendo developed the first-hand console it’s called as ‘’Game Boy’’ It was new generation of gaming because, if you have Game Boy, you can play video games everywhere. Also in 1989, Sega released the first 16-bit Genesis console against to Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega didn’t compete with Nintendo. In 1991, Sega released the Sonic the Hedgehog game and it was Sega’s first success. After that, Nintendo released its first 16-bit Super NES console. In the game history this situation known as first console war. Thanks to technological developments, the first 32-bit game console developed by Sega in 1995. The following years Sony Company started producing game console. Game console name was ‘’PlayStation’’. Thanks to high quality games, Sony dominated the video game market and PlayStation 2 released in 2000. One year later Microsoft invented the Xbox game console against the PlayStation. In addition, Nintendo and Sega still produced new games and new consoles these years but they didn’t be successful. In 2005, Sony’s PlayStation 3, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s Wii started the modern age of high definition of gaming. In these years, PC game industry developed and gamers started to play video games on computer. Gabe Newell created a game hub for PC it known as Steam. In the past, gamers bought game CD and they played it with console. Gabe Newell completely changed this situation. He said, when you want to play game on PC, you don’t need to buy game CD. You will create an account on Steam and you can download the game when you want on Internet. At first, gamers didn’t want to use Steam because when they pay money, they want to have something in real life like a CD. The following years, gamers understand that Steam is practical and safer than CD so, they started the use Steam. Nowadays, Steam is the biggest game portal in the world.
In conclusion, video games have been in our lives for a very long time and they are constantly evolving and changing.

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