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The history of game making begins with the development of the first video games, although which video game is the first depends on the definition of video game. The first games created had little entertainment value, and their development focus was separate from user experience—in fact, these games required mainframe computers to play them. [43]
The modern video game industry grew out of the concurrent development of the first arcade video game and the first home video game console in the early 1970s in the United States. The arcade video game industry grew out of the pre-existing arcade game industry, which was previously dominated by electro-mechanical games (EM games).
The early history of video games, therefore, covers the period of time between the first interactive electronic game with an electronic display in 1947, the first true video games in the early 1950s, and the rise of early arcade video games in the 1970s ( Pong and the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox ...
The history of video game consoles, both home and handheld, began in the 1970s. The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966. Handheld consoles originated from electro-mechanical games that used mechanical controls and light-emitting diodes (LED) as visual ...
1976 flyer advertising the racing game Fonz. The 1970s was the first decade in the history of the video game industry.The 1970s saw the development of some of the earliest video games, chiefly in the arcade game industry, but also several for the earliest video game consoles and personal computers.
A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks [ 3 ] to a large business with employee responsibilities split between individual disciplines, such as programmers ...
2004 – The Nintendo DS is launched and World of Warcraft redefines MMORPGs. San Andreas, Fable, Far Cry, Katamari Damacy, Half-Life 2 and Halo 2 all debut. 2005 – The Xbox 360 is released, along with God of War, Guild Wars and Shadow of the Colossus. Guitar Hero triggers a wave of musical rhythm games.
Game programming, a subset of game development, is the software development of video games.Game programming requires substantial skill in software engineering and computer programming in a given language, as well as specialization in one or more of the following areas: simulation, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, physics, audio programming, and input.