History of Video Games

The video game industry would celebrate its 41st birthday this year, and video games certainly have come a long way since then. Video games began with the arcade hit Pong game published by Atari in 1966, and the hit Pac-Man game which was also released by Atari in 1979. However after that the industry stagnated as no one could think up any more new and good games for the moment. The industry nearly died completely when the lead publisher Atari released two games (a horrible Pac-Man port that is a trainwreck, and a extremely buggy and rushed E.T game based on the movie) which are both so bad that the retailers thought that game industry is a goner and refused to sell them anymore. Luckily Nintendo managed to rescue the market with the extremely popular Super Mario, which is to date one of the most successful games ever sold. After that the video gaming industry grew leaps and bounds.