EARLY GAME GRAPHICS
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In the history of consumer products the history of video games is a relatively short one. But it has had a signicant impact on how people play games especially X generation and millennial children. Nowadays many people who are interested in video games are not children at all and the fastest growing segment has actually been adults. Let’s have a look at the brief history of landmark video ames and video consoles to trace the roots of this large industry.
LEVEL 1 brown box LEVEL 2 atari LEVEL 3 nes (nintendo entert. system) LEVEL 4 sega mega drive
BROWN BOX In 1972, the humble Brown Box was licensed to Magnavox, which used Baer’s invention in Odyssey, the first home video console system. The Odyssey, which consisted of 40 transistors and 40 diodes, sold 130,000 units in its first year.
1972
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PONG
One of the earliest arcade video games, PONG is a simple tennis game that became the first, commercially, sucessful video game.
1976
ATARI The famous “Brick Breaker� found on Blackberry smart phones to this day was developed by Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak and released for the Atari is 1976.
PACMAN Notable releases Pac-Man Missible Command Defender Centipede.
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NES (Nintendo entert. system) 1985
Nintendo releases the family computer console in Japan and is later released in the United State as the Nintendo Entertaiment. System.
Super Mario
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Super mario Bros is released and sells 10 million copies before years end. Euentuality being the top selling video game.
Sega Mega Drive LEVEL4
The sega mega drive is released Sega most sucessful console solid 29 million units.
1992 It is an arcade fighting game developed and published by Midway Games in 1992 as the rst title in the Mortal Kombat series. It was subsequently released by Acclaim Entertainment for nearly every home video game platform of the time.
Mortal Combat
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