History

The video game industry has only been around for about 50 years, but in this time it’s grown rapidly. From the early games and systems like pong and the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 to Infantine warfare and virtual reality systems in 2016.In the 1970s gaming was mainly on arcade machines, with home gaming made possible with systems like The Magnavox Odyssey and the Atari 2600. Although home gaming didn’t become popular until companies were able to mass produce computers and gaming systems. The invention of the microprocessor helped to greatly improve video games. It made games like Space Invaders Possible, and it was released in 1980 after Atari integrated the microprocessor into their tech.

The gaming industry crashed in 1983 due to there being too many systems on the market and not enough games that people wanted to play. While this happened the computer industry began to flourish with computers like the apple 2. With computers becoming more affordable for the average American and having more processing power then consoles. They enabled the Creation of more complex games, and gave the gamer the ability to create their own games with some basic code.

Shortly after that computers and systems like the Atari ST helped pave the way for the idea of Multiplayer gaming. In 1933 multiplayer gaming had a big boom when "lan Party" was created. Many games made this a popular way of gaming with pathway of darkness in 1933, Marathon on the Macintosh in 1994, and Quake Hit Stories in 1996. Multiplayer gaming really took off when the Internet was created.

From then on the Gaming companies moved to innovate and improve online gaming making more games that lean toward online gaming.

So from the beginning to now the video game industry has made great leaps in technology in a relatively short amount of time. With even greater things on the horizon.

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