after my last post in which I talked about a brief history of computers and computer gaming I though i should continue, so here it is the HISTORY OF COMPUTER GAMES (from 1980's -1990's). the 80's were extremely significant for the development and advancements in computer gaming. this was a decade that included such greats such as the Atari 2600 and the NES the grandfathers of modern gaming consoles. but is was not consoles that were advancing at light speed desktop computers were now being created with gaming in mind and in these 10 years were see the endless battle with consoles and computers.

But first a history lesson this was the decade that saw the cold war and the fall of the Berlin wall. huge miners strikes sweep through north England and this was the decade of Duran Duran. with this in mind it was no surprise that the advancements in technology were going east out of America and into Japan and China no wonder with in  the first year of the 80's the east had created the Atari 2600 and Americas best effort was the magnavox Odyssey. but with the technology being so readily available and no real copyright was set up yet to protect the rights of consoles that by 1983 we saw the "end of the arcade" and "the end of Atari" the 3 main reasons for this was 

• over supply. as I stated earlier by 1983 there were hundreds of consloes on the market this led to
• loss of publishing control, games and consoles were both the target here with no real infrastructure in place anyone with a basic understanding of circuitry could create a console
• and finally the rise of the PC this was the main killer of consoles and still is today people dint just want a gaming platform they wanted something with with more practicality than the average console

and so we move into the last 6 years of the 80's but it has no sign of slowing down . in 1986 we saw an entry from Sega with the master system then we have to look at one of the more weirder consoles the Worlds of wonder action max a console whose controller was a gun. then we see the names come out for the reaming 3 years. 1987 the Sega genesis (my first gaming console) then in 1989 we see the worlds first mass produced gaming device the game-boy then in the turn of the decade we see the Revelation in gaming with Wofenstein 3D.  so in 10 years we went from space invaders to a realistic representation of a modern day FPS