Tuesday 4 October 2016

History of Game Platforms

Level 3 Games Design

Unit 20 Games and Platforms

by Sam PJ

History of Game Platforms

The first Graphics card that was made was the Monochrome Display Adapter and it was made in 1981 it could do  80 columns by 25 lines of text characters/symbols.
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The first ever game that was made for the computer was made in 1958 and it was Pong and it was thought to be the first game ever made and it was made by a man called William Higinbotham and so this was the first step in the gaming industries.
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The history of Game Platforms started around 1967 and with it came The Brown Box and this was the first games console that I know of and so with this little device you could play little games that weren't much but at the time they where huge and you could only play little games like Snake or Pong but at the time this was a huge step in the games department and so this is where it began.
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The first 3D Graphics card was the Voodoo 1 and it was a fast hard drive for the time and it has four megabytes of RAM and because it was one f if not the first 3D graphics card it was a huge step in creating new games for a PC and it was made in 1996.

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The 1970's was a great time for games consoles because around this time there was lots of games consoles being created like the Magnavox odyssey 200 and this was also the year that games began to have colour in them such as Pong getting new sprites and also some colour to it.
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In  1971 the first ever arcade machine was made and so people began to play these and so more people went out side and socialised but the arcade could only play one game and it is the game that is made with the game but the games that came with them at the time people spent hours playing because it had all new graphics compared to the other platforms that where our back then. Because arcades only had one game to them there where many of them made so that they could run more games.
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In 1977 one of the most well known consoles came out and it is called the Atari 2600 and it was known for games such as Pac-Man and Mario Bros and so when this came out it was ground braking because it had all of the old classics and it had some of the most popular games out there. When the Atari 2600 was first released a lot of people bought it and it gain popularity very quickly.
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The next console I will talk about would be the NES and this console came out in 1983 and this console was made by Nintendo and so it is one of the most known old consoles out there because of its graphics and also it could play games such as Mario and this was huge at the time because there was no other game like it and short after the Sega Genesis came out and there for sonic got its turn in the light as the graphics and colour was a little better than the NES but Nintendo decided to remake the NES with better graphics and Colour and so they also made Mario even better along with it in 1991 and it was called the SNES.
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The PS1 and XBOX where close with the development but PS1 came out first (in 1994 and with it came a whole range of challenging and unforgiving games but 7 years later the XBOX (Year 2001) came to be and with it came lots of different shooter type games But within this 7 year time frame the PS2 was created and so it came with good graphics and a new range of games this platform hit the world by storm.
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In 1994 the first game came out for mobile and it was non other than Tetris and it was made for Hagenuk MT-2000 and so it was a big thing to be able to play a game on a phone and this made it very easy to play a game on the go and also shortly after more and more games started to come out and they also began to make games better and better and games on the Mobile are still being made and improved.
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The Gameboy Colour (Year 1998) was a HUGE step foreword in the gaming industries because it was one of the first platforms where you didn't need a TV and it was easy to move with good graphics but they where not in colour. this platform however was hand held and also didn't need a disk to play it instead it used a cartridge that help a single game on it
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The Game Cube (Year 2001) was a big thing when it came out because it was a brand new console that had lots of different games and it a lot had a lot more memory to play them and also the console allowed you to save like the others but it was on a memory card and so with this you can move your saves around to different game cubes and play on your save with your friend.
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Around the same time as the Game Cube the Gameboy advanced (Year 2001) had come out and with this you could play the same games as gameboy colour games but you could also play more games that had smaller cartridges and so this was even easier to carry around but not only that the gameboy advanced games where all in colour and so this gained popularity quickly
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The next Consoles just got better and better and the games that came with them just kept improving until now and i can't wait to see just how far the gaming industries go and with them changing even now for example the Nintendo Wii (Year 2006) because of this you didn't use a normal control it used motion censors that detected when the new remote moved.
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One of the best graphics cards to day is the Ge Force Titan and that is because of how well it runs everything and it is one of the most powerful graphics card out there it was made in 2013 and it has Seven billion transistors. 6GB RAM and so you could be wondering why doesn't everyone get one well that is becasue it is £1,000.
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I got most of the dates from: http://jamestedder.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/evolution-of-gaming-consoles.jpg

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