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History: videogames have been around since the 1950's all the way up to now. A group of computer engineers played a 3D version of chess and the moon landing and back then during that time that was the coolest thing and video gaming started to grow.

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In the late 1970's going into 1980's arcades were the new thing or trend and kids were having the best time of their live's also arcade companies were making a huge profit and thats all because the kids kept coming in to play. during that time period the biggest arcade games were pac-man, galaga, centipede, froger etc.

companies were trying to come up with new ways to make gaming more fun and by the mid 1980's they succeeded by creating the first console. the companies listed below are video gaming companies that were big during that time period.


 * namco
 * atari
 * nintendo

Paragraph 2: By the early 1970's console gaming began to grow when the first console game pong was released. pong was a game where it involved two players and the objective was to get the little dot in the other players goal. That game was such a huge game changer in the videogame community and people loved it. By the early 1980's mid 1990's videogames started to change and companies started to grow bigger. In that time period sony was coming up with ideas and one idea that they had was a gaming system that would change the world. That system was called the playstation. The playstation would start a new kind of era for gaming. The system had a lot of new upgrades that was gonna be different to other systems.

·       New Graphics

·       New Controllers

·       New Hard-drives

Paragraph 3: Fast foward to the late 1990's, there was no competitors for Sony and so playstation started to get new Ideas for their videogames. The two biggest games of the 1990's was gran turismo and resident evil. Both games would soon gain popularity by the year 2000. In the early 2000's Sony released the playstation 2 and they were competing against Microsoft when the xbox came out. By 2007 their feud was still going because both companies released their newest systems, the ps3 and the xbox 360. Sony's stocks were low while Microsoft was beating them in sales. By the year 2008 Sony released a portable gaming system called the playstation portable but that wasn't enough and Microsoft was still in the Lead. Their feud wasn't gonna stop there and Sony needed something to gain more customers. So by the year 2013 Sony decided to release their newest system, the playstation 4. But when Sony released the playstation 4, Microsoft released the Xbox One. Then by the following years both companies came out with a better version than their 2013 models. Microsoft released the Xbox One s while Sony released the Playstation 4 pro.

Paragraph 4: While companies were battling each other to see who had the better system, virtual reality made a huge comeback. Vr was the most used platform for gaming. In the year 2012, A virtual reality company came out with their self named product, the Oculus. The Oculus created a new way of gaming because it was the nostalgic feeling the people enjoyed. putting on a VR head set felt like you were going back in time plus it felt like you were actually their in the game. Then by the years 2016-2017 Sony decided to get into the VR business and released their newest gaming product, The Playstation VR. There are other VR companies but the one that started it all was the oculus. VR started to die down because the next big thing in gaming was pc gaming.

Paragraph 5: Kids used to want to play video game consoles but now in 2019 kids just want to play on their computers. To some people Pc gaming is better while to some people console gaming is better. Everyone has their own opinion but overall it's just a piece of entertainment. Gaming is now a sport where teams compete against each other for money. Video games Like Call Of Duty or Madden NFL or NBA 2k are just a few games that they would compete in.

Conclusion: So in conclusion video gaming has come so far in life and the way everyone sees it is that gaming will never die. video gaming companies would keep releasing new content like new games, new consoles, new merchandise. The future is right around the corner and companies are already making their next generation of gaming.