User:Wikiposter0123/Timeline of historical video game milestones
Coin-op Arcade Machines
[edit]1971 Galaxy and COmputer space Building arcade cabinets by hand made videogame profitable that decade arcade boom created epic dawn of electronic entertainment
Home Consoles
[edit]build money purchases cartridges
Mature Games
[edit]Shifted in 90s, adult themes, expanded market ESRB established in 1994 Mortal Kombat and Doom
Gameboy
[edit]First truly made handhle dgaming worth pursueing lengthy battle life Tetris took off with adults as well large library
3D Games
[edit]Wolfenstein, Starfox, Virtua Racing, challenge Playstation and Saturn, Battle Oshenda, Warhawks, Jumpingflash, crash bandicoot, tombracer Super Mario 64 showed how to navigater 3d space for foreseeable future, 2 years laid groundwork still riding wake of 3d revelotion
Analog Stick
[edit]Space World 1995 N64, Ocarina of Time, Mario 64 Crucial to the growth of all 3D gaming
Optical Media
[edit]release of Playstation, FMV cutscenes huge soundtracks, huge paradigm shift digital distribution way of future, blue ray current king, impact of optical media cannot be understated
Online Gaming
[edit]Maze Wars, archaic novelty Most enduring games in modern gaming built around online network social aspect also significant, some games nothing more than glorified chat rooms
Xbox Live
[edit]Creating online community interact express watch listen, friendslist, acheivments, party system, avatars,
Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii
[edit]new ways to interact, broaden scope of consumers far more then anyone predicted, assesible control style, led to imitation by Microsoft's Kinect and Playstations move