Game History Genres Space Invaders Pong Max Payne

Game History, Genres Space Invaders… Pong… Max Payne… Action, Adventure, Puzzle, etc

History g Spacewar 1962 – PDP-1 – 2 Ships controlled by 4 buttons each: – Rotate left, right, thrust, fire g Adventure 1967 – Text-based adventure – “You are in a maze of twisty little passages”

History g Pong 1972 – First arcade hit version of Pong 1974 g Fairchild Channel F 1976 g Home – Cartridges! g Hardware “Crash” 1977 – Millions of Pong clones saturate the market

History g Space Invaders 1978 g Activision 1979 – First software house makes Atari 2600 Cartridges g Asteroids 1979 – Record score: 100, 000 – Two guys played it for a week in 1982

Arcade Games 1980 g Defender g Missile Command g Battezone g Tempest g Popular with Men AND Women: – Pac-Man – Frogger – Centipede

Arcade Games 1981 -83 g Donkey Kong g Q*Bert g Tron g Zaxxon g Joust g Pole Position g Punch-Out

Home Games Late 70 s Early 80 s g Atari 2600 g Atari 5200 (incompatible cartridge with 2600) g Colecovision g Mattel Intellivision g Bally Astrocade

Software Crash of 1983 -84 g Market of 1982: $3 billion g Market of 1985: $100 million g Millions of clones and lousy cartridges – No rating system – No licensing system – Consumer confusion!

Mid 80 s g 8 -bit Home Games: – Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) • Released 1986 • Most popular toy of 1988 • Mario Bros. – Sega Master System • Released 1986

Late 80 s g 16 -bit Home Games – Sega Genesis • Released 1989 – NEC Turbo. Grafx-16 g Game g Tetris Boy

Early 90 s g Super NES (16 bit), 1991 g Game Gear g Software – Street Fighter 2 • First decent fighting game – Super Mario Bros. 3 – Sonic the Hedgehog – Mortal Kombat 1992

Mid 90 s g Sega CD (1992) g PC CDROM (1994) g Software – NBA Jam (1993) – Virtua Fighter (1995)

Late 90 s, early 00 s g Playstation (1995) g Sega Saturn (1995) g Nintendo 64 (1996) g Sega Dreamcast (1999) g Playstation 2 (2000) g XBox (2001) g Game. Cube (2001)

Late 90 s g Software – Very strong 3 D! – Decent sports games – Soul Caliber, Shenmue … g PC Software – Graphics no longer 100% of the challenge – Consumer demand for 3 D causes cheap 3 D graphics!

Game Genres g Name some!

Genres Action g 1 st Person Shooter g Adventure g Fighting g Puzzle g Racing g Role-Playing g Simulations g Sports g Strategy g Music g Dance g Artificial Life g Quiz Show g

2 D Action Games g Shoot the horde of aliens – Shoot the horde of aliens • Shoot the horde of aliens g Space Invaders, Galaga, Defender/Stargate, g Mario Bros

1 st Person Shooter g 3 D Shoot the horde of aliens – 3 D Shoot the horde of aliens • 3 D Shoot the horde of aliens g Wolfenstein, Payne Doom, Quake, Half-Life, Max

Adventure g Follow the trail g Solve puzzles g Nice scenery g Inventory g Learning g Examples: Zelda, Metroid, Myst, Shenmue

Fighting g Pluses: – KILL!!! – Short games – Stress reliever, flow experience – Social hierarchy “determiner” g Minuses – – Arcane knowledge Limited virtual space Follow-on real violence ? (vs. social hierarchy) Clone factor

Puzzle g Solving the puzzle is the primary goal g Gives feelings of mastery

Racing g First past the post g Fairly strong simulation element g Fine motor control

Role-Playing g 3 rd person adventure g Strong story component (potentially) g Learn the virtual world/environment g Players are free to act within the world’s constraints

Simulations g Flight Sim g Sim. Ant, Sim. City, Railroad Tycoon, Roller Coaster Tycoon, . . . g Focus on details g Training could be the goal

Sports g Armchair coach g Abstract war g Abstract team fighting games

Strategy g Same components as Sim games g Historical simulation g Puzzles may play a part g A light story element g No twitch in turn-based strategy

Music g “Name that Tune” g Repeat a piece of music that the game plays for you g Play along musically

Dance g Dance Revolution g Dance kiosk type games (popular in Korea!)

Artificial Life g Tamagotchi, Creatures, Black & White

Quiz Show g You Don’t Know Jack, Win Ben Stein’s Money, etc

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