| Video games have been a significant force in society | | | | Metroid, and other classics. |
| and one of the most popular leisure, more or less a | | | | With the running time industry was trying for more |
| solitary pursuits in those days of the late '70's and | | | | efficient system and as a result the entire industry |
| early 80's that relied on graphic improvements and | | | | adopted the implementation of the microprocessor |
| better ways of shooting the enemy. There were | | | | due to which these systems produced |
| games like Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, Sega and | | | | groundbreaking and innovative graphical and auditory |
| Nintendo. With the rise of the Internet and online | | | | effects that had never been seen before. Millions of |
| games however, lots of things changed, including the | | | | dollars were spent on video arcade machines and on |
| ability to download games and playing online games, | | | | home video game systems. Atari's VCS/2600 system |
| making games a more of social activity, with lots of | | | | still dominated the market throughout 1982, when the |
| players, or opponents playing with each other from | | | | gaming market experienced a crash due to the loss |
| the different corner of the world thus making people | | | | of public interest in video game specific consoles, and |
| from the different parts of the world come closer | | | | sales dropped. |
| and interact with each other while playing. | | | | The video game history took a new turn with the |
| It was Magnavox and their "Odyssey" system in | | | | end of the reign of Atari and with the two |
| 1972, which were the earliest video games that | | | | innovations in the year 1984. The two innovations |
| included twelve simple games with graphic overlays. | | | | were reduction in cost of Dynamic RAM (DRAM) |
| It was very simple and needed lots of improvement. | | | | chips, which allowed more memory, and the |
| Seeking the opportunity Nolan Bushnell along with Al | | | | production of higher power 8-bit processors, which |
| Alcorn, the founder of Atari created Pong complete | | | | lowered the prices of the previous chips. Sega and |
| with built in paddles, and a speaker and released it in | | | | Nintendo of Japan entered the console market and |
| the market after one year, which came out to be a | | | | would battle over the next five years for dominance. |
| great success. At the same time another video game | | | | Recently in this advance age of technology where |
| Atari dominated the market. Among the other video | | | | the gaming market is saturated with hi-tech online |
| games that were famous worldwide were Pac Man, | | | | computer games battle for domination is still in |
| the yellow blob that ate up dots and avoided | | | | existence and this could be seen between Play |
| squid-like ghosts, Space Invaders, Super Mario, Zelda, | | | | Station 2, the X box and the Game Cube. |