Video games 1:Introduction and research
The video game industry is specialised meaning that it is competely different to any other industry like for example the film industry.The film industry is reliant still on producers and distributors and that is unlike anyother industry.
The very fist video gme is considered to be Space war which was made in 1962. There is earlier games such as the Nimrod systems game called Drafts. This game was created in 1952. The only people who could play these games were coders and computer techs who worked on building said games as home software was practically non existent at the time.
The first at home game was called pong and it started out in arcades but then became available from tech stores in the US in 1974. Pong is really simple, it is just ing pong but computerised so the first home system was actually sport based instead of violence based.
Arcade games such as space invaders were the real deal and they had many innovative factors such as lives and scoring system. People would play this game in arcades for hours and in japan it cost 100 yen to play. The system doesn't have any colour features but many arcades had plastic covers that made the game look a certain colour. In japan there were entire arcades dedicated purely to space invaders. This caused the fisrt real moral panic towards gamers and being violent as gangs in japan were gathering outside of arcades and having fights over consoles thus giving the impression that gaming causes anger.
Atari is a crucial company in the production for the first really successful gaming systems.
Video games were really expensive and having a gaming cabinet is really expensive but with the introduction of the ZX spectrum it allowed gamers to game at home as well as in arcades, it also allowed bedroom coders to develop. This spectrum allowed anyone to create any kind of games, in the 80's British developers made interesting games such as quizzes.
One of the big issues with at home gaming is that the quality was really bad. In the eighties the quality was really bad as they can be sold really expensively but made really badly.
There was no regulation at the time so there were some really horrible and inappropriate games like custers revenge.
The three games i will look at are:
The very fist video gme is considered to be Space war which was made in 1962. There is earlier games such as the Nimrod systems game called Drafts. This game was created in 1952. The only people who could play these games were coders and computer techs who worked on building said games as home software was practically non existent at the time.
The first at home game was called pong and it started out in arcades but then became available from tech stores in the US in 1974. Pong is really simple, it is just ing pong but computerised so the first home system was actually sport based instead of violence based.
Arcade games such as space invaders were the real deal and they had many innovative factors such as lives and scoring system. People would play this game in arcades for hours and in japan it cost 100 yen to play. The system doesn't have any colour features but many arcades had plastic covers that made the game look a certain colour. In japan there were entire arcades dedicated purely to space invaders. This caused the fisrt real moral panic towards gamers and being violent as gangs in japan were gathering outside of arcades and having fights over consoles thus giving the impression that gaming causes anger.
Atari is a crucial company in the production for the first really successful gaming systems.
Video games were really expensive and having a gaming cabinet is really expensive but with the introduction of the ZX spectrum it allowed gamers to game at home as well as in arcades, it also allowed bedroom coders to develop. This spectrum allowed anyone to create any kind of games, in the 80's British developers made interesting games such as quizzes.
One of the big issues with at home gaming is that the quality was really bad. In the eighties the quality was really bad as they can be sold really expensively but made really badly.
There was no regulation at the time so there were some really horrible and inappropriate games like custers revenge.
The three games i will look at are:
- Minecraft
- Grand theft auto 5
- Guitar hero series
Minecraft is a 3D generated building game for PC, mobile devices and home gaming devices which allows the user to create an avatar and build in an online world. There are six modes to the game and these all can be differentiated by skill too, so for example the user can have a survival world wherein which they must make all their items by using tools to build and create things or they can have the world set to creative and just build what they want without having to survive in the game. The other modes are; Hardcore mode, spectator mode, multiplayer and adventure mode.
Minecraft is developed by Mojang studios which is a video game developer supported by Xbox. Minecraft was released in 2009 for personal computers but had its official launch in November 2011, it is one of the best selling video games of all time with over 200 million copies being sold worldwide and 126 monthly active users as of this year (2020).
Minecraft costs about £17 for console and only £4.99 on mobile for the base game. It can be played on any home console and can be found on the google play-store as well as the app-store on iphones and android phones and devices.
Minecraft has a 93 metascore and a 7.7 user score.
Minecraft is aimed at 5 to 15 year olds.
Guitar hero was published in 2005 by RedOctane and Harmonix with Activision as the distributor. Guitar hero is a video game that allows users to simulate playing guitar,bass and drums to a series of rock songs. Players match notes that come onto the screen while strumming the guitar shaped controller that users have to buy separately. The faster the strumming, the more points get added onto a score and then the highest score gets recorded.
Guitar hero is not just one game but a series as each of the varied versions can be played on home consoles such as PlayStations as well as Wii devices. The games is also available on IOS and android as well as PC and MAC.
The game costs as little as 24p preowned from charity or second hand game stores like CEX with a decline in sales as more music based games were released. Guitar hero live which is the latest release can cost up to $100 in a bundle in the US (£85).
Guitar hero scored a meta score of 80 and a 6.2 user score. According to howlongtobeat.com it takes 51 hours roughly to complete.
Grand theft auto 5 is an action adventure game that is published by Rockstar games. The game was released in 2013 and is set in a fiction place made to look like america called San andreas. It is a first and third person perspective game it is navigated by vehicle or foot.
The game is available only on gaming consoles like PlayStations and Xbox systems. It is a multiplayer online game but can be played solo. There are smaller tasks for users to complete as well as the overall story line. The main story line is centered on heists an criminal activity such as gang crimes. It was released in 2013 for ps3 and in November 2014 for ps4. 130 million copies shipped worldwide with 6 billion in worldwide revenue.
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