In between the time I spoke about in my last blog an the current topic there were a few major things that shaped the time frame im going to talk about.
The rise of arcade games in 1971 with Computer Space was prety major, and the infamous Pong reared its ugly head around 1972 (yeah not really a fan :P ) and Atari was founded! Shortly after in 1975 pong was leaked into peoples homes.
This little period was major as you saw the movement from million dollar industrial sized monstosities to the ever famous arcade pods, which in itself caused quite a stir, especially seeing how 100yen coins almost became extinct when the arcade machines decided to breed like rabbits an swollow up japan, when japan gets going on something, it reals does hit it hard :P
You also see the movement to home computers, but that never fully took off until the the 1980's with the invention of the Commodore 64, Apple II (more USA based) and the ZX spectrum, all of which i have no idea about :P its fairly interesting to read about these things because i was never fully interested in the whole computer scene until around the mid 1990's.
The 1980's were kicked off with those major consoles of the time but took a major stumble in late 1983 with the infamous CRASH of the game market ( there was a smaller one a few years back but this one takes the biscuit )
Pac-man, another old favourate that I dont realy care for and im quoted as to describe it as "meh" at best, well it seems the owners of the sed game got a little cabin fever an decided to make more pac-man cartridges than actual consoles.........now either Mr Joe Blogs got a little playful with his calculator or those guys were really blind with their thirst for money! madness.
A few companies didnt have the cards to stay through the crash that lasted a couple of years, but my personal favourate Nintendo swooped down an picked it back up with the good old NES in 1985, an people moaned at the WII, its nintendo guys, no worries ;)
An interesting thing I picked up in my findings is something to do with Final Fantasy!! Seems Squaresoft were in trouble an FF was their "final game".........well guys have to say, for a "Final Game" you did pretty well for youselves, because Final Fantasy ROCKS!!!!!!
But the majority of these games throughout this period were single player orientated, yeah sure they can go around the arcade with their mates, but ultimatly the only interaction between you an your friends, are fists when you get knocked off your 1st place position :P their was indeed room to play multiplayer with the early machines, but it seems that it never really kicked off until the internet reared its head and Doom in 1993 opened peoples eyes when they realised......"i can plug these pcs together an kill you all i like...... OH MY GOD REALLY :D"
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