Video Games

Video Games are  very important to interactive media, although I don’t like them, I know there importance. I believe they are great for learning and extending peoples imaginations. Of course I agree that video games can become a problem in someones life, just like anything that can become an addiction…

The only time it does become a problem, is when you allow the activity to take away from other things that are suppose to be done in life… These are the stereotypes that are thrown at people that like video games. Not everyone that plays video games have this problem, but many do… or maybe they can’t find anything in life that excites them as much as the games. This is where I believe education would help.

But anyway, video games aren’t important to me, but I think they are awesome and this is my timeline on what made video games so awesome!

It was concieved by Thomas Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann in 1948 with the CRT amusement center.

“Tennis for Two” in 1958 by William Higinbotham was  my next important part… Allowed for competition between two!!

“Computer Space” Nolan Bushnell & Ted Dabney… They made the first coin operated game… CAPITALISM!

Of course this led the way for Arcade games. Arcade games gave a really bad name to the video game because people would spend hours popping quarters into a machine. But, most don’t realize that these people are extremely competitive and want to be a winner and if winning a game or achieving the high score is what allow a person to accomplish this feeling, then so be it!

Personally I don’t like Arcade Games, I think this was the greatest movement for games….

1970’s Home computers, and home gaming consoles…

1977 the Atari 2600 came out… I had one of these, yeah it was 7 years old but I had one and enjoyed the shit out of it!

1985 Nintendo Entertainment System… Of course we had this and we played it all the time… SUPER MARIO BROS./DUCK HUNT.

1987 Lode Runner came out… This game was played on my buddies Apple II a lot by us… we even got in trouble saying we were going to wear out the computer… LOL

This is when I fell out of the game… I really got interested in outdoorsy stuff… my brother stayed involved in video games and has owned every system since…

I did fall back into the game when the Xbox came out in 2001… my brother got me involved in the Halo Series and I haved played and beat everyone since… In my big absence from the video game console, there were many changes: controllers, graphic, games, and holding power… Halo for me is addictive, I could play that game way to much… I don’t hate on games just hope that people don’t allow them to affect them like Halo does me!