History of Video

Gam

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Objectives

At the end of the lesson students will be able to:

–Understand the impacts of profits and economic change on technology

–Use Scratch to design an interactive greeting card

Objectives

1940 - 1950• 1940: NIM– First electronic game at the

New York World’s Fair– Pick-up Sticks

• 1947: Cold War Begins• 1955: Hutspiel– First tactical nuclear

military war game– NATO vs USSR

1960s• 1960: Vietnam War Begins• 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion– Cuban Missile Crisis

• 1961: First man in space– Yuri Gagarin

• 1962: SpaceWar!– Spaceships battling

• 1963: STAGE – Simulation of Total Atomic Global Exchange– US defeating the Soviet Union in a nuclear war

1960s• 1967: Brown Box prototype– Play tennis

• 1969: Moon Landing

• 1969: Lunar Lander• Text based moon landing

1970s• 1972: Pong– Tennis–Arcade & at home

• 1974: Maze Wars– The first, first person

1970s

• 1978: Space Invaders–Coin shortage in Japan

• 1976: Death Race–U.S. Safety Council

CHANGES IN GAMES• Since the beginning of video games, the

content for the games have been steadily modeled specifically after current or new occurrences

• During and after the 1970’s the profits from video games steadily grew– Game developers focus on what they felt the

consumer would buy– Profits were a main focus

1980: Pac Man1980: Missile Command1981: Donkey Kong1982: Tron1982: Q-Bert1984: Duck Hunt1984: Tetris1984: Paperboy1985: Mario1986: Zelda1986: Metroid

1980s

1983-1985: THE CRASH• Between 1983 and 1985 the video game

market experienced a 97% drop in revenue!

• Too many consoles on the market

• Poor titles by startup companies– Put out the games before they were refined

• Home computer popularity was growing

Twenty semi-trailer truckloads of Atari boxes, cartridges, and systems from an Atari

storehouse in El Paso, Texas were crushed and buried at the landfill within the city.

1990s1991: Sonic1991: Street Fighter II –

-1st Combos

1991: Tecmo Super Bowl - 1st Main stream Sports

1992: Mortal Kombat 1992: Wolfenstein 3D

- 1st Health Packs

1993: Doom1994: Warcraft

1990-1999 Longest Period of economic growth in US History!

1990s

1996: Pokemon

1996: Tomb Raider

1998: Dance Dance Revolution

1998: Metal Gear Solid: -One of the 1st stealth games

1999: Tony Hawk Pro Skater

1999: Unreal Tournament

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012$0

$2,000,000,000

$4,000,000,000

$6,000,000,000

$8,000,000,000

$10,000,000,000

$12,000,000,000

$14,000,000,000

$16,000,000,000

$18,000,000,000 U . S . C o m p u t e r & V i d e o G a m e D o l l a r S a l e s G r o w t h

Great Recession

Longest Growth in US History

The Great Recession

Great Recession:

2007- $ 9.5 billion2008- $11.7 billion2009- $16.2 billion

Housing Bubble-lower home valuesHigh unemployment

Stock market prices fell 57%

The Great Recession

2000: Counter Strike2000: The Sims2005: Guitar Hero2006: Wii Sports2007: Call of Duty: Modern Warefare

2009: World of Warcraft2009: Angry Birds2009: Minecraft

2000s

2010: Red Dead Redemption2011: Sky Rim- Elder Scrolls2014: Destiny

2010s

Most expensive video game to

date to produce at $310 million

Exit Ticket

• Why do you think profits for video games have increased during times of recession?

• Did I miss a video game you wanted to see?

EXIT TICKET

Essential Question

Other than technology, what are the driving forces that change

video games?

ESSENTIAL QUESTION