GamerRespawn
1st Generation
Video games have grown from a relatively small industry, seen as a short lived fad to a multi billion dollar a year business. I missed out on a lot of the very early offerings and grew up playing GameBoy's and the SEGA Megadrive. Since those days, I have enjoyed playing a huge variety different games on a wide array of different platforms. i want to share with you a brief history of this obsession of mine and many millions of others.
-- 1968 - The 1st Generation of gaming, as we know it today, began in 1968. Television engineer, Ralph Baer, created the first ever
'Interactive TV' and called it The Brown Box. A chase game was made for the system, in which two players were given
a square to control and chase each other around the screen. The system would go on to produce 11 other games while it lasted.
-- 1972 - The Magnavox Odyssey, the most successful of this generation, manages to sell 330,000 units in its lifetime.
The system boasted an impressive 27 games in total, which included games like, Ski, Football and Dogfight. It also saw the introduction of the first peripheral. The game, Shooting Gallery came with the first ever 'light gun'.
-- 1972 - The first majorly successful arcade videogame, Pong is released.
-- 1974 - Gran Track 10, the first arcade racing game is released. It is the first game to use ROM.
Maze Wars is also released, which is considered to be the first ever first person shooter.
