History of Gaming

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    Game History

    A brieft gaming History
  • OXO

    OXO
    OXO was one of the first games to ever come out though it had pretty terrible sales it was still evolutionary.
  • Pong

    Pong
    Pong is revolutionary game because it was one of the first arcade machines ever built.
  • Adventure

    Adventure
    Inside the black castle catacombs (on difficulty level 2 or 3), embedded in the south wall of a sealed chamber (accessible only with the bridge), is an "invisible" 1-pixel object referred to as the gray dot. One must "bounce" the player cursor along the bottom wall to "grab" the dot. Then take it below the golden castle a wall will then become invisible and the player can walk through and see the Creators name.
  • Zork

    Zork
    Zork was revolutionary because it was really the text advenutre that everyone remembers
  • Game Boy

    Game Boy
    Gameboy was the start of handheld gaming really and Nintendo did a really good job they had games coming out that weren't terrible quality such as pokemon
  • Doom

    Doom
    Doom was a revolutionary game because it was one of the first extremely sucsessful first person shooters (FPS)
  • Mortal Kombat

    Mortal Kombat
    Mortal Kombat was a revolutionary game because it gave Australia a reason to have a rating system.
  • Ledgend of Zelda: Ocorina of Time

    Ledgend of Zelda: Ocorina of Time
    Ocorina of Time was revolutionary because nobody talked too much in the game there was really only 3 lines Hey! Look! and Listen! and yet the game still realy grabbed you and made you feel for the characters and really made you wanna kick Gannons butt.
  • Minecraft

    Minecraft
    Minecraft is revolutionary because it put indie developers in a respectable spot and shows that indie developers can really take off and become extremely sucsessful.
  • Angry Bird

    Angry Bird
    Although gaming on IOS isn't really classified as gaming, Angry Birds paved the way for many IOS games, it showed the potential of the hand held device
  • Mortal Kombat 9

    Mortal Kombat 9
    Yet again a Mortal Kombat striking contriversy being banned in Australia and then later on would be on of the main causes for the R18+ Rating
  • L.A Noire

    L.A Noire
    The game itself was pretty awesome but thats not what I am talking about. The 32 MotionScan cameras that were used to get all facial details for the games parts where you have to find out if the character is lying.