The begin of the videogames.

 How starred the videogames story?

The story of the videogames is very intresnting, they didn´t had the most epic graphics but the people in that time were entertaned with this videogames. So, in this post we show the most interesting retro-things that we liked and were interesting for us. We hope that you like it.

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1. The first videogame in the world: "Pong"

Pong was a first generation video game console video game published by Atari, developed by Nolan Bushnell and released on November 29, 1972. Pong is based on the sport of table tennis, or ping pong, which was developed as a video game in 1958, the first video games (OXO, Nimrod, Tennis for Two or Spacewar!). This is a practical application that woke up entrepreneurs, born in a non-profit laboratory. Those that began selling entertainment equipment (Galaxy Game and Computer Space) or the first video game console in history (Magnavox Odyssey). When we talk about Computer Space, we mention two characters related to the video game industry, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.

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2.  The first videogame console: "The Atari 2600"

The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in 1977 under the name of Atari VCS (Video Computer System), becoming the first video game system to have a great success, and popularized replaceable cartridges.

The console was discontinued on January 1, 1992, its processor was the best of those times which was MOS Technology 6507 8-bit. The inventor of the Atari 2600 was fueled by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, both Americans.

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3. The most remembered and popular console: "NES"

The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly referred to as the NES or Nintendo NES) is an 8-bit console (third generation) developed by Nintendo. It went on sale in Japan, North America, Europe, and Australia during the late 1980s.

Specifications: Cartridge: Game Pack; Unit...

Controls: NES Controller

Some of the popular and best videogame of the console were:

1. Super Mario Bros. 

2. The legend of Zelda

3. Metroid

4. Kid Icarus

5. Kirby

6. Duck Hunt

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4. The place for gamers´ reunions: "Arcades"

The arcade were arcade machines that were capable of reproducing basic graphics and had buttons, levers, and other accessories to complement the gaming experience. They had an impact on two cultures: the Japanese and the American from the concept of the arcade room.

Arcade machines gave us great games starting in the 70´s and it was the first step for many players in the world of video games, spending hours playing games in arcades.

The ideal was that many games were played in a short time, and some games even had the option to adjust the speed or health of the enemies, in order to make the game more complicated and difficult to master.

The developers had to strike the right balance between a game being hard enough that it wouldn't be beaten in a single playthrough, but not too hard to frustrate players and make them stop playing.

In this way, some games were extremely easy in their early stages, but their difficulty increased considerably until the final levels. This way players would not get bored even after playing hundreds of times, as they would have to keep playing games to fully master the game.

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5. The worst videogame in the history "E.T for the Atari 2600"

ET The Extra-Terrestrial is a movie game in more ways than one. The title was designed for Atari inspired by Steven Spielberg's film and its history, not the one narrated by the video game, but that of the video game itself, is giving for a documentary, it was one of the first games of the Atari 2600.

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6. The first portable console: "Nintendo Game boy"

The Game Boy was one of the first portable consoles and the one that popularized this concept.

It was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, Satoru Okada, and their Nintendo development team. Once they presented the concept of the console to Hiroshi Yamuchi, president of Nintendo at the time, they began to work on it. Although many do not know it, this console was not the first with Nintendo's portable format, in fact, Gunpei Yonkoi, Satoru Okada and their development team gave birth to Game & Watch years before, a console that unfortunately had a short history.

The Game Boy was developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It had features of the NES and Game & Watch hardware, a green screen, five buttons, a speaker, and a jack output. It used AA batteries and its games were 2MB cartridges. It did not offer great technology compared to what we are used to today, but at that time it was a small great revolution and was able to conquer an entire generation thanks to its innovative portable format that, despite being the second portable game console in Nintendo offered very good autonomy and playability.

The Game Boy was released in mid-1989 in Japan and North America and in 1990 in Europe. In its first year it did not manage to reach great sales numbers, but it was shortly after that the famous Tetris entered the scene. This game was a revolution and helped the sales of the Game Boy to multiply.

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This were only a bit of a lot of things that made the video games popular in the 70´s, 80´s and 90´s, we hope that you liked this post, if yes, please give us a comment of what was the most interesting thing to you, we would be delighted to know it. See ya!  :)