History of Video Games

My first video console was sega megadrive . It was a gift from my sister in law. The first video game I ever play was Sonic the Hedgehog .

This game was released on 1991 june 23 as a rival to the Nintendo game Super Mario . The two games characters inductees into the Walk of Games.

Sonic has become one of the world best-known game characters and sold 45 million of copies in 2005.

From what I know Video Games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the basis for an important entertainment industry in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the United States, Japan, and Europe.

After a disastrous industry collapse in 1983 and a subsequent rebirth two years later, the video game industry has experienced sustained growth for over two decades to become a $10 billion industry, which rivals the motion picture industry as the most profitable entertainment industry in the world.

Causes of the crash include the production of poorly conceived games such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Pac-Man for the Atari 2600. It was discovered that more Pac-Man cartridges were manufactured than there were systems made. In addition, so many E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial cartridges were left unsold that Atari buried thousands of cartridges in a landfill in New Mexico.

In 1985, the North American video game console market was revived with Nintendo’s release of its 8-bit console, the Famicom, known outside Asia as Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was bundled with Super Mario Bros. and instantly became a success.

The NES dominated the North American and the Japanese market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s.