ATS1280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Game Players, Player Character, Video Wall
27 Aug 2018
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Video games have begun to appear in prestigious art museums, such as the museum of modern art in new york. Space war was created in mit computer lab with the huge ass computers. Birth of the industry: nintendo, arcade games, atari 600 (space invader, origin of console gaming in japan (nintendo family console) 1980s - arcades (originating in us/japan - pacman, space invaders) Technology was still fairly expensive but these were quite affordable to play at home: mid 1980 onwards - personal computers and developed into wii, psp, ps4, xbox and people start playing video games as kids. Game industry: us game industry generated us. 5 billion in 2015, game industry = increasingly successful, and interacts with other media industries in an increasingly important and complex way, movies made into video games (resident evil, world of warcraft) Film industry can latch onto the fan base of video games - expand the marketing and media forms.
