Video game! when we utter this word from ours mouth we feel inside a kind of excitement, joyness, thrill, passion etc. video game is basically a game which is played on computer in which the player controles moving pictures on screen by pressing buttons.
Marshall mcluhan, in his book Understanding media writes the extentions of man that the characteristic of all media means that the 'content' of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and the print is the content of the telegraph.
The evolution of the video game has been started since in 1950s. Accordng to (xtimeline.com) the first electronic game is known as the ''Noughts and Crosses'' january 01, 1952. And after six year in 1958, 'William Higinbotham' created first video game known as "Tennis for two''. And since then the concept of video game developed and later its status change into video game as a key player in the media industry. During that period, other games like spacewar, corndog and space travel were introduced, although they were not so popular in the market.A decade later in 1972, video game staus has completely change after the widespread success of 'pong' by the Atari. In 1978, after the successful of 'Space Invaders' it is said that it was the golden time of video game industry development in America.
Reference:
Wolf Mark J.P. 2005. The Medium of the Video game. Austin: University of Texas Press
Mcluhan,M.(1964).'Understanding media',The extention of Men, Mcgraw-hill press: NY.
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