Evolution Of Games

I absolutely love games. No matter what genre.. Though it's not a good thing, I have to say games have taken up a huge part of my life so far. Even though I'm 21 this year, I am still addicted to games (trying very hard to cut down). As I grow older, I found out that the games I'm playing now have really evolved from the past. So I'd like to share a little bit on the evolution of games with a lot of personal experiences.

While gaming today is a widely recognized part of our cultural landscape, many of us do not know that electronic gaming is actually a relatively new thing. Early programmers took computers that were slow and prehistoric and programmed simple (and I really mean simple) games such as Tic-Tac-Toe on their electronic systems. But the thing that really started electronic gaming off was the Atari 2600, released in 1977. Ever since then, gaming has taken off and it has never been the same again.

Games started breaking off into several genres - mainly Sports, First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, Role Playing Games. Each genre attracted different gamers but as games slowly developed, genres started to merge together and it has really become a blurred line.

I remember my first ever console - THE Nintendo.

Day and night, I was on my precious nintendo playing Super Mario, Donkey Kong Jr. and Circus Charlie etc. Even though I have completed the entire game before, I continued to play it over and over again. It was that addictive. I would call my friends over to play and challenge them (since I've trained over and over again, I was confident of beating them). New and better games were released and I found myself buying a new cartridge almost once a month. It was crazy!

Thanks to the development in technology, new consoles started to pop out and eventually I was spending more and more money on games, controllers, consoles.....

Well, this is only a small little preview which I will try and elaborate more in my presentation. Hope this post has sparked an interest in you wanting to know more about the origins of electronic gaming and how it has evolved through the years. Stay tuned!