Let’s revise the important highlights of the history of video games in detail

Considering the time, we are living in 21^st century and if you have or don’t have slight inclination towards astrology you would agree to this fact the future for next 10 years will be about ESports, NFT and Crypto.

We know that pandemic has brought destruction in our lives as several employees have lost their jobs but in hindsight it has given lives to so many passionate Esports players especially in India to try video games during pandemic.

They are not just playing video games for the sake of fun, entertainment and learning they are extending their boundaries to make a career in the fastest growing ecosystem of Esports. Let us walk down the memory lane and highlights few important aspects related to history of video games in detail.

It all started in 1950s and 60s where computer scientist started designing simple games for mainframe computers and the first game which gained immense popularity was Spacewar in 1962 and this game gave inspiration to lot of other game developers during that period.

During 1970s home based video games came in the market with consoles and the games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man and also during the era of 70s and 80s the concept of home based console market flourished.

Video gaming company Atari also entered in the market during early 70s and 80s and the man behind the show was none other “Nolan Bushnell” who is touted as the “father of Video Gaming industry“.

The Video game market of United States hit rock bottom during 1983 as the market was flooded with so many choices of video games and those games were designed for inexpensive personal computers and that gave an immense opportunity to Japan who entered in the industry of video games by launching “Nintendo Entertainment System” in 1985 which helped to regain the same status of falling video game market of US during 80s but with gaming companies like Nintendo and Sega who improved their games but also ensured gaming console competition between these two bigger giants.

In early 90s, Microsoft entered their wings in Esports department by launching their own console and gained wider popularity and Microsoft and Sony continued to develop their hardware, comparable top-end console features.

Nintnedo too launched their new model known as “Nintendo Switch” and their purpose of launching Switch was to focus on innovative gameplay and developing on motion sensing controls.

From the period of 2000 to 2010s, mobile gaming market saw a huge rise with the introduction of mobile phones and tablets who replaced the consoles and casual gaming which became the new phenomena in this growing video gaming market.

Hardware and Software technologies continues to strive improvement with support from high definition video at high framerates.

On June 14^th 2010, Microsoft launched their new version of Xbox 360 console referred in the market as slim or Xbox 360.

Microsoft and Sony they went one notch ahead and launched their next console generations known as Xbox one and PlayStation different versions later.

Various games like Electronic Sports, Star Wars Battlefront II, ZT Online, Free Fire, BGMI and FIFA came at different time but they were successful to build their immense popularity among Esports players due to their attractive user interface and ability to engage players with rewards and attractive Prize pool.

Post 2020s, the concept of NFT, Crypto and Meta Verse sky rocketed which gave wider opportunity to different video gaming and entertainment companies to embrace the support of metaverse and keeping this ideology in mind Sony Interactive Entertainment purchased game developer Bungie for live interacting games where the former acquired the stake of 19.9 percent in the latter’s company.

Video games industry is a content driven and heavy competition based market with new games coming in quick succession and the passionate players needs to develop an ability to adjust towards the nuances of new game.

So Right from introducing eight bit consoles to 16 bit consoles to designing games on mobile phones, Video gaming industry or what we popularly call them in current scenario “ESports” have come a long way and with new technologies like NFT, Crypto and Meta Verse coming in the system the future of Video gaming or Esports can be perfectly summed up via popular saying in English known as “Only Sky is the limit”.