game history, genres
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Game History, Genres. Space Invaders… Pong… Max Payne… Action, Adventure, Puzzle, etc. History. Spacewar 1962 PDP-1 2 Ships controlled by 4 buttons each: Rotate left, right, thrust, fire Adventure 1967 Text-based adventure “You are in a maze of twisty little passages”. History. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Game History, Genres
Space Invaders… Pong… Max Payne…Action, Adventure, Puzzle, etc
History
Spacewar 1962– PDP-1– 2 Ships controlled by 4 buttons each:– Rotate left, right, thrust, fire
Adventure 1967– Text-based adventure– “You are in a maze of twisty little
passages”
History
Pong 1972– First arcade hit
Home version of Pong 1974 Fairchild Channel F 1976
– Cartridges! Hardware “Crash” 1977
– Millions of Pong clones saturate the market
History
Space Invaders 1978 Activision 1979
– First software house makes Atari 2600 Cartridges
Asteroids 1979– Record score: 100,000,000– Two guys played it for a week in 1982
Arcade Games 1980 Defender Missile Command Battezone Tempest Popular with Men AND Women:
– Pac-Man– Frogger– Centipede
Arcade Games 1981-83
Donkey Kong Q*Bert Tron Zaxxon Joust Pole Position Punch-Out
Home Games Late 70s Early 80s
Atari 2600 Atari 5200 (incompatible cartridge
with 2600) Colecovision Mattel Intellivision Bally Astrocade
Software Crash of 1983-84
Market of 1982: $3 billion Market of 1985: $100 million Millions of clones and lousy
cartridges– No rating system– No licensing system– Consumer confusion!
Mid 80s
8-bit Home Games:– Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
• Released 1986• Most popular toy of 1988• Mario Bros.
– Sega Master System• Released 1986
Late 80s
16-bit Home Games – Sega Genesis
• Released 1989
– NEC TurboGrafx-16 Game Boy Tetris
Early 90s
Super NES (16 bit), 1991 Game Gear Software
– Street Fighter 2• First decent fighting game
– Super Mario Bros. 3– Sonic the Hedgehog– Mortal Kombat 1992
Mid 90s
Sega CD (1992) PC CDROM (1994)
Software– NBA Jam (1993)– Virtua Fighter (1995)
Late 90s, early 00s
Playstation (1995) Sega Saturn (1995) Nintendo 64 (1996) Sega Dreamcast (1999) Playstation2 (2000) XBox (2001) GameCube (2001)
Late 90s
Software– Very strong 3D!– Decent sports games– Soul Caliber, Shenmue …
PC Software– Graphics no longer 100% of the challenge– Consumer demand for 3D causes cheap
3D graphics!
Game Genres
Name some!
Genres
Action 1st Person Shooter Adventure Fighting Puzzle Racing Role-Playing
Simulations Sports Strategy
Music Dance Artificial Life Quiz Show
2D Action Games
Shoot the horde of aliens– Shoot the horde of aliens
• Shoot the horde of aliens– Shoot the horde of aliens
• Shoot the horde of aliens
Space Invaders, Galaga, Defender/Stargate,
Mario Bros
1st Person Shooter
3D Shoot the horde of aliens– 3D Shoot the horde of aliens
• 3D Shoot the horde of aliens– 3D Shoot the horde of aliens
• 3D Shoot the horde of aliens
Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, Half-Life, Max Payne
Adventure
Follow the trail Solve puzzles Nice scenery Inventory Learning Examples: Zelda, Metroid, Myst,
Shenmue
Fighting
Pluses:–KILL!!!– Short games– Stress reliever, flow experience– Social hierarchy “determiner”
Minuses– Arcane knowledge– Limited virtual space– Follow-on real violence ?(vs. social hierarchy)– Clone factor
Puzzle
Solving the puzzle is the primary goal
Gives feelings of mastery
Racing
First past the post Fairly strong simulation element Fine motor control
Role-Playing
3rd person adventure Strong story component (potentially) Learn the virtual world/environment Players are free to act within the
world’s constraints
Simulations
Flight Sim SimAnt, SimCity, Railroad Tycoon,
Roller Coaster Tycoon, ... Focus on details Training could be the goal
Sports
Armchair coach Abstract war Abstract team fighting games
Strategy
Same components as Sim games Historical simulation Puzzles may play a part A light story element No twitch in turn-based strategy
Music
“Name that Tune” Repeat a piece of music that the
game plays for you Play along musically
Dance
Dance Dance Revolution Dance kiosk type games (popular in
Korea!)
Artificial Life
Tamagotchi, Creatures, Black & White
Quiz Show
You Don’t Know Jack, Win Ben Stein’s Money, etc
Others??
Game Ideas – Discuss!
What ideas to people have??
What is the One Cool Thing?
Tools
Game Extension?