You know, video games weren't always virtual reality,  3D, and amazing graphics. The first ever “Game machine” Was made in the 1940s. The game it played was “based on the ancient mathematical game of Nim”. The first ever gaming console was called the brown box “a vacuum tube-circuit that could be connected to a television set and allowed two users to control cubes”. It played ping pong, checkers and four sports games. Let’s Speed forward a few years to the 1960s and 1970s from 1966 to 1973 is when arcade machines really started to boom. They started appearing everywhere, as well as with their arcades. However, in the early 1970s and 80s  is when “home-gaming” became a reality. In 1975  “Gunfight”  “the first example of a multiplayer human-to-human combat shooter” was far from Call of duty, but was a big deal when it hit arcades. It brought joysticks to the gaming community too.  In 1977 Atari released the Atari VCS. Sales we slow when it was first released because “ Americans were still getting used to the idea of color TVs at home, the consoles were expensive” The Atari VCS only played 10 simple challenge games but it did have a slot for  game cartridges so programmers helped it outperform its original design. In 1980 Space Invaders was released for the Atari VCS   and sales shot up. Space Invaders created a gaming boom. Now there were too many new gaming consoles and too little good games. That lead to the North American Gaming crash of 1983. After this Nintendo created the NES (Nintendo Entertainment system). This console grew in popularity quickly, it also created a new game character, Mario. This game was the main reason the gaming crash wasn’t permanent. Around this time is when home computers started showing up. Let’s skip to the early 1990s, when Sega Nintendo and  Atari started trying to break into the realm of online gaming. They made many attempts with cable providers and things like that. Internet was very slow at the time so nothing really was working. Until the year 2000 Sega made the Sega Dreamcast, the first gaming console that was internet ready. Eventually it did fail internet was very expensive at the time so that put an end to Sega’s console legacy. However this did lead to the Xbox and Wii and other consoles. However in 2001 a game called Runescape did appear it was the first MMORPG (look at game classifications to find out what that stand for).  Therefore internet became better and more up-to-date consoles have been released.  Around 2007 mobile games released and now it’s today. Thats our video gaming history.