"E.T. didnt kill gaming, it only killed atari"

the 80s started video games off with a little character known as pac man or puck man to japanese gamers. pac man was the first game ever to have a leading character with its own name and many other games followed suite but failed misrebly.

Ataris E.T. considered the cause of the crash of 1983?
in 1983 the next milestone in the gaming world was its down fall. the game industry dug itself a grave of poor quality game and jumped in head first . some people say that E.T. was 1 of the games that started the crash of 83 but there are forcfall veiws on the crash of 83 being a lie.
i beleive that the games crash of 83 was point of veiw blown out of proportion. many games were still on the market in the early 1980s and people still bought them. there wer games throughout the early 1980s and the games market was still progressing at that time.
"E.T. didnt kill gaming, it only killed atari!" anon

A major boost in gaming happend in 1983, the first 2 player game was designed by a woman. "M.U.L.E." it would be a further 20 years before man caught up and made this idea mainstream - and i thought men ruled the gaming industry - swiftly putting that aside. nintendo brought the gaming industry out of its dark years with the "NES" or japanese name "famicom". the 8bit system was the the beginning of higher res gaming, over 60 million consoles were sold world wide. it reigns supreme as the most sold console ever.




a major milestone in gaming history struck in 1985 with the development of a game generally called tetris. tetris was created by Alexey Pazihitnov, in 1985, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow during the soviet union. tetris was designed with another russian game in mind "pentominoes". (tetra is greak for four and is used in tetris because all the shapes have 4 sections.) you can find tetris on almost any platform in some shape or form.

in the mid 1980s sega decided it was time to join the hardware gaming war with the sega master system as a direct competitor of the nes but failed to take a valid part in the japanese and european market even though it was a more technically advanced peice of hardware, its failiure may have been a result of its mascot - prior to the 1990s sonic - "alex the kid".




in the late 80s a new generation of gaming style came to being....simulators. people wanted to do real things but in a fantasy world such as sim city and sim farm. this started a new genre of games and kept the games industry rolling into the future for a short period of time.
1989 was a fabulous year for gaming as not only sim games were brought to lightbut also the aptly named "god games" developed by Peter Molyneus, such as populous. the gamer took control of the inhabitants of a world and had complete control over them -finally a game you can have fun with - other games developed by peter molyneus are "dungeon keeper" and "black and white"
sega finally fought back with their new and first 16bit console the sega genesis and with there 100million marketting campaign plus the add ons to allow the gamer to play master system games it couldnt fail. it didnt. it stormed the market the likes that had never been seen. GO sega! with the exception to the hand held console known as the gameboy this is the end of that golden age of gaming...teh 1980s!