Unless you’re from another planet or have been living under a rock for the past 30 years you’re probably familiar with the term ‘video game’. Basically a ‘video game’ is a computer controlled game where a video display such as a monitor or television is the primary feedback device. With video games there must always be an ‘input’ device usually in the form of a button/joystick; keyboard or combinations (think Pacman).

The video game/arcade game era was most notably recognized in the 1970’s. The first coin-operated arcade game was known as ‘computer space’ and was created in 1971 by Nolan Bushnell. Nolan envisioned creating various games for his arcade games and in the mid 70’s partnered with a friend and formed the company Atari.

The video game market continued to grow into the 80’s and since Atari’s inception, a new breed of video games had emerged – the video game consoles. Unfortunately, in 1983, the video game market crashed and brought upon a dry spell for roughly 3 years before the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) reached North America and presented Americans and Canadians with games such as Mario Brothers

Between 1985 and 2005, tons of console systems emerged such as the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, the Gameboy, Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Xbox and newer computer hardware allowed gamers to take their video games to the PC.

In Late 2005 the Xbox 360 was released and this was considered the 7^th ‘next generation’ system available to gamers young and old.

As the demand for more interactive game worlds, better physics, and more lush graphics continues, game developers will continue their quest for the most powerful systems at affordable prices. What does the future have in store for gaming? Only the future can tell.

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