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