Comp 1: Gaming

Evolution of Gaming 

              

William Hinginbotham created this very simple video game in 1958

Space war became the first arcade game when it was released in 1972 

The atari was the first home console released  in 1975 with the game PONG, over 150,000. this development allowed gaming to be brought to the home and would start the new wave of home consoles that we still see today although it wasn't that popular 

The First Carriage Game in 1977 

in 1983 the first Nintendo  console was released 

in 1989 nintendo released the first hand-held allowed audience to play on the  go, this was a new wave of technology that allowed anyone to play anywhere. 

The introduction of the SONY PS 1 and PS 2 in 2000 sold out in the first morning that was released used DISC. Over 150 million units where sold as of 2012 and was the most sold console of all time until 2014. 

nintendo releases the wii a gaming system that lets gamers use the controller in now revolutionary ways, such as swing it like a tennis racket or hold it like a steering wheel. 

New technologies have allowed games to have large open words allowing players a new gaming experience for example GTA 4's open world game broke world records for the most copes sold in a week with over 6 millions sold.  

next generation gaming was introduced with the xbox one and ps4 bring new graphics to games and providing the best gaming experican this consoles are still in use at large today and are the two major gaming console factions. 

Game Regulation 

Pan European Game Information (PEGI) 

Two levels of information  : 

Age rating 

     

The content of games with  a 3 rating is considered suitable for all age groups. the games should not contains anything that will frighten children and a very low form of violence 

game content with scenes or sounds that can possibly frightening to younger children should fall in this category. very mild forms of violence (non-detailed or non-realistic)

video games that show violence of a slightly more graphic nature towards fantasy characters or non-realistic violence towards human like characters would fallen in this age category. sexual innuendo or sexual posturing can be present, while any bad language in this category must be mild. gambling as it is normally carried out in real life in casinos or gambling halls can also be present, 

this rainf is applied once the depiction of violcene or sexual activity reaches a state that looks the same as would be expected in real life. the use of bad language in games with PEGI 16 rating can be more extreme, while games of chance and use of tobacco alcohol or illegal drugs can be also present. 

the adult classification a lot of violence, drugs, motiveless killing glamorisation .