Raging Mouse is here to Stay!

Video games are one of the most popular leisure activities there are. Millions of people are playing video games every year. Thats where we come in, offering a great selection of Free Games to play online. In the late 1970's and early 1980's the video game industry was born. Starting the phenomenon was companies like Atari, Intelivision, Colecovision, Followed by Sega and Nintendo. That was just the start with classic games like Pong and Space Invaders. With the coming of Sega's PacMan and Nintendos Donkey Kong video games started taking on a life of their own.

It all seemed to start with Magnavox and their "Odyssey" system in 1972, which were the earliest video games that included twelve simple games with graphic overlays. It was very simple and needed lots of improvement. Seeking the opportunity Nolan Bushnell along with Al Alcorn, the founder of Atari created Pong complete with built in paddles, and a speaker and released it in the market after one year, which came out to be a great success. At the same time another video game Atari dominated the market. Among the other video games that were famous worldwide were Pac Man, the yellow blob that ate up dots and avoided squid-like ghosts, Space Invaders, Super Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and other classics.

The video game industry was trying for more efficient system and as a result the entire industry adopted the implementation of the microprocessor due to which these systems produced groundbreaking and innovative graphical and auditory effects that had never been seen before. Millions of dollars were spent on video arcade machines and on home video game systems. Atari's VCS/2600 system still dominated the market throughout 1982, when the gaming market experienced a crash due to the loss of public interest in video game specific consoles, and sales dropped.

The video game history took a new turn with the end of the reign of Atari and with the two innovations in the year 1984. The two innovations were reduction in cost of Dynamic RAM (DRAM) chips, which allowed more memory, and the production of higher power 8-bit processors, which lowered the prices of the previous chips. Sega and Nintendo of Japan entered the console market and would battle over the next five years for dominance. Recently in this advance age of technology where the gaming market is saturated with hi-tech online computer games battle for domination is still in existence and this could be seen between PlayStation 2, the X box and the Game Cube.

All this history brings us to now, the age of online gaming is here. The Pc has brought us the ability to download games, and play free games online and opened up even more avenues to the gaming phenomenon.MOre and more games are released every day, with new characters and some of your long time favorites like Sonic an Mario. You could play these games for days on end and never play the same game twice.
Is there an end in site? We don't think so. People have always wanted to be entertained, and a good video game allows the player to enter a completely different interactive world. The future of online video games is still bright, and this author cannot wait to see what the future brings.

Category: Site News | Tags: Games, online, gaming, news, history, atari, sega, nintendo, classic, arcade | Posted on: July 6th, 2009