In thirty years the games industry saw many up and downs. New software developed new competitors to the market and new games but that’s not to say there weren’t worse bumps in the road to come.Straight in the deep end setting it off us had Magnavox with their own and the very first home playable cartridge console the Odessy. Now this was a development from the arcades. Baer had developed two games of their before this time as home playable games, chase and tennis, however future founders of Atari Nolan B and Ted D created the first ever arcade game, computer space. This along with pong launched a new era of gaming, however players would get two different experiences depending on whether they played on the arcades or home systems as different variables were played to effect between the two.
In close proximity to those years Atari would be founded. Many companies would come to light in the coming decades of the game industries growth and creation. Coleco would release it own home console a few years later, Telstar, whereas FC&I would play a role of putting more music into games. Other companies of the time included Midway, Mattel Intellevision, Cinematronics, Nintendo, Taitos, Sony and many more including the first game magazine Electronic Games.
All these companies would see fortunes made and lost as they grew to power, especially when the game revolution came along, people were sick of the cartridge systems at home not being very reliable or choice of games but then a wave of new ideas hit the hearts worldwide, companies lost out at the time, Atari especially their apple idea was rejected and the very first hand held never saw shop shelves.
All these companies would see fortunes made and lost as they grew to power, especially when the game revolution came along, people were sick of the cartridge systems at home not being very reliable or choice of games but then a wave of new ideas hit the hearts worldwide, companies lost out at the time, Atari especially their apple idea was rejected and the very first hand held never saw shop shelves.
It’s probably due to the fact that games and the systems went worldwide finally, for years they struggled to get into Europe and now even Europe had its own companies. This movement also saw the creation of the Entertainment software rating board. So for now as long as we stay worldwide we aren’t having any more revolutions, at least not with the constant flow of new consoles and games that followed...
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