Task 2 – 1980 to 1990

1980 has to be remembered with the really popular game that every gamer and non-gamers knows; Pac-man (pukka-man, puck-man). Released by Namco 1980 in the US. Made by Toru Iwarani. The game selling all over in the US and even internationally became popular, the arcade system was cleaned every hour because the bucket of money use to get full. Relating back the event with the PONG game. From this there was also Pac man merchandise and cosmetic items such as t-shirt and toys.

Moving to consoles the Japanese release of the Nintendo entertainment system also known as the NES which was the most popular and bestselling console of its time it was the third generation console, using game 72 pin cartridges because Nintendo allowed third party developers to make games which can be sold with a license.

Then coming to the Sega genesis which was released in America in 1988, also the fourth generation selling around 40 million, which was also my first console, I remember playing streets of rage 1 and 2, it was fun and had me on it for several hours. I had the original Japanese mega drive.

Going back a little to 1985 there was the first personal computer released by commodore Amiga 1000. Having one of the most powerful CPU’s and advanced graphics for its time, surprisingly its operating system can fit in a 512KB storage, probably a floppy disk. It released a lot of games for it which in my opinion is where the original PC gaming genre began.

In games; I would talk about the metal gear, a game I really wanted at that time, it was essentially made for MSX2 computer in Japan then was ported to the NES. That game was in my opinion the top game for action. Also it was the first game directed by Hideo Kogima which is the creator the successor games.

Nintendo game boy, not the first handheld games console but the most iconic and remembered. Made by Nintendo, Released in 1989 Japan and America and eventually in Europe the following year. It was originally bundles with the puzzle game, Tertris. Having many small successors such as game boy colour all combines selling 118.9 million devices. That’s insane. I owned a game boy colour which was I really enjoyed. It had all the popular Nintendo games developed for it such as Mario and the legend of Zelda.

Ending it off talking about the video games industry crash that happened in 1983. Which was a massive 97 percent crash in total revenue. Which caused nearly every company that developed games and home computers to go bankrupt even the top company, Atari inc. Which was revived by the NES in 1985, the crash was due to many factors but mainly because of the flooded market of similar or cloned consoles or games which were mainly low quality and all of that resulted in the consumers because all of them was around the same price, That lost a lot of consumers interest because of repetition. Even home computers were affected because of the elevating of price and new brands. 

referance: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streets_of_Rage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_Genesis_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_in_video_gaming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handheld_game_console