RELAX MUSIC presents: HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC GAMES
120Relax music presents: history of electronic games
THE HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS VIDEO GAMES
According to the latest data, there are 2.3 billion gamers in the world today. One in three humans play digitally and that's not a given. Only thirty years ago few knew what they were, now they are everywhere.
In the beginning, video games were anything but games. In the 1950s they were designed to test the intelligence level of computers. To get to the real fun, we will have to wait twenty years. In '72, in California, Pong made its debut, a large cabinet with one screen and two wheels. They like it immediately and the public continues to insert coins to interact with these two bars that simulate ping pong. Following come Space Invaders and the first home consoles (Atari 2600, Intellivision) but the video game is still for fans.
1980s: the game is massive
It was only in the 1980s that gaming reached the general public. The protagonist of the turning point has a name: the Nintendo. Released in 1985, it still has squared graphics but allows you to have a games room at home. With it new playful genres are born. There are platformers like Super Mario Bros., fighting games, RPGs, sports titles, puzzle (Tetris). Success is instantaneous, there will be 69 million consoles sold and electronic games, as we called them in Italy, were finally on everyone's lips.
1990s: the third dimension arrives
The effervescence of the 1980s also affects the following decade. We mainly work on computing power, from eight bits up to 64 bits and games become three-dimensional. Arcades begin their slow decline as portable gaming hits aficionados (see Game Boy). The real leap forward, however, is the PlayStation, from 1994. Video games abandon their cartridges and glide on the most capacious CDs: developers have a lot of space available to offer real films to play and piracy allows you to copy video games and distribute them in all. the globe.
2000s: the Net and virtual worlds
With the new millennium comes the Net. Home connections allow us to develop virtual worlds like The Sims that simulate our daily life and allow us to interact with those on the other side of the world. The desire to escape however culminates in World of Warcraft, 2004, in which masses of players live fantasy adventures. The Net also allows you to organize yourself. Online tournaments are born, video games become real sports (eSports) and the best gamers of sportsmen with millionaire salaries.
2010s: virtual and mobile reality
On the technological front, there is also a parallel track: virtual reality. In 2007, Nintendo's Wii abandoned the controller for a kind of remote controls that track the movements of the hands. In 2010, Microsoft's Kinect camera eliminates these as well. The dematerialization seems to have been done and in 2012 the screen also disappears thanks to Oculus Rift, a helmet that immerses us in this alternative reality. In the same period, thanks to the spread of smartphones and tablets, everyone becomes players and falls in love with Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Pokémon Go. This is the greatest innovation of our times: seeing grandmother challenge granddaughter to Ruzzle or dad beat offspring in Fifa.
2020s: Immersion in the virtual world
From simple dots on a faded colored pixel screen to hyper-realistic 3D landscapes: the history of video games takes players deeper and deeper into the virtual world thanks to technological development. What will video games be like in the future? One thing is certain: history will go on along the same lines. Already today, players can almost completely immerse themselves in a game thanks to virtual reality. But this technology is still in its infancy. Better graphics resolutions, tactile controllers and lighter devices will define the future of the gaming industry.
"Truth in the Stones" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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