The Middle and The End :(

The continuation of the video gaming scene, many companies are born, hoping on the bandwagon and trying to line their pockets with gold.

During the 1980-90s companies such as Activision, Mattel and Nintendo, Some companies were designed for programming games, which in turn brought about the death of the “coin up” and arcade games.
Games had moved into the household and were here to stay! Alternatively, so they had hoped.
With so many companies being created their was a lot of competition and potential demand from the industry, but because of so many competing companies meant that games were flooding out of the stores, not always in the best condition. For example, E.T, the first circle of hell for the industry, one of the epic flops.

With the first hit of the industry, it could only get worst, and so it did.
With so many games being made and retailers not prepared for the large quantities, they had to send them back to publishers, which resulted in less revenue for publishers, creators and retailers.
With this happening it destroyed smaller companies not being able to survive without the financial gain of the hard spent hours creating these games that in the end wouldn’t be purchased or just sent back.

The catalyst of the video game crash, which lasted to long years, two long years of crap poorly developed games which no everyone wanted, which remind me of our current situation, cough Nintendo Wii cough cough.

After the drought the market moved to Japan were it was revived, BRING ON THE RPGS!!!

My Gaming History :)

Based on research, it would appear that Stephen Russell made the first game which was “spacewar” (1962) but the first commercial game made for entertainment purposes was pong which was released on the Atari (1973).

Funny thing is that so many people have their own definition of the “true history of video games” that its hard to filter through and discover the actual facts, but they seem to have all one or two things in common, that being that pong is the first game created for entertainment purposes more or less.

As more people create their own version of history, it becomes less important.

Now I create my own version of gaming history, my personal gaming timeline.

I think the first game I ever played was Tetris, but it was on some strange handheld device, when I look back my timeline is a bit random because I think I played classic games like pong later on in life.

I remember when the Playstation was released and I was playing games like Casper, worms, crash bandicoot etc. The most memorable being final fantasy VII, this game is so epic, story and game play wise. Ever since then I have been hooked on this FF drug, continued to play the series until this day, this feed my imagination and motivated me to draw, I wanted to be able to create memorial characters, industry defining characters.

I guess to extend I’m a bit of a fanboy…moving on, I also played the Nintendo classic like, pokemon, super Mario, Metroid Prime etc.

My timeline is probably the same as everyone else’s in some parts, the same games like Pokemon, Zelda and Mario.

-Raspberri Randy