Aug
25
The Stone Age
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We all remember the world’s greatest game. With unimaginable graphics, outstanding features, and hours of endless entertainment; who could forget a game like this? Well, the game that’s on the tip of your tongue is “Pong”. All right, well maybe it didn’t have the best graphics, but what about the outstanding features? Hmm, I guess hitting a dot on a screen isn’t much. Hey, how about the hours of endless entertainment? Well, come to think of it, I guess it got pretty old after four of five rounds.
Why was pong such a popular game and how did it grow to plant the imagination of our current video game developers? Although, this wasn’t the first ever video game, it did have more popularity than any before it. Within a few years, people were making many varieties of the game. Not too long after that, companies were popping up all over trying to get a foot in this ever-growing industry.
Over the past 20 years, the market for video games has skyrocketed, making it one of the world’s fastest growing industries. Of course, you’re not able to retail the same games over and over again with the same old features. This demanded that games become more creative and graphical, causing development budgets to increase with newer technology and the amount of staff to create the game.
Now that we have games that simulate realistic physics and mind-blowing detail, it makes the industry harder and harder to advance technologically. Video game developers are looking at their consumers to see what people want. What developers noticed is that, consumers want a game that sticks them in to the shoes of a hero or a fantasy character. Popular games such as Halo, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto have become billion dollar projects because they meet the desires of the consumer. In each one of those video games, you play a role as an unrealistic character becoming something that a human could never accomplish. As games advance, you will see more and more character-based games.
Throughout the rest of my blog, I will be going over the different aspects of video games. I will explain the different ESRB ratings of video games, types of video games, and controversy in video games. All of these meeting up to the final topic “Are video games unhealthy and do they cause negative behavior?”
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I never really played pong before but I have definetly heard of this game. It was pretty big. Most video games that I used to play had decent graphics. But now since more technology is out things have definetly changed.
I grew up with Atari. thats all i had for a very long time. It was kick ass, lemme tell you. After that I got sega genesis, and then it died… Since then all i use is the computer. Never have owned an xbox or any other console.