Video Games

So I was listening to some podcasts about video game history. Of course now I must get back to reading my video game history book. Some brief highlights, first home console came out in 1972 (yeah...thats right). Video games had about 10 really good years. Then CRASH!!! (by the by...ET games are buried in a landfill in Alamogordo, of course they drove over them with a steam roller and then covered it in cement) Of course there were a whole mess of consoles, they went through about 3 generations of systems in that time, so about every 3 years you had to buy a new system (think about the PS2, it is still selling new systems). And when you adjust for inflation the game systems were as expensive or more so than the current systems.

But...in addition to the mass of consoles and replacing them every few years, 3rd party companies were permitted to write any game they wanted to make and sell, so there was a whole flood of poorly designed and programmed games. So in 1983 the home game market went under. It wouldn't be till 1985 that Nintendo would lead the market back from the dead.

Yeah...I'm a nerd.