Gaming, the early years and my rambling of games

Video games seem to have started within the 50s when technology was definitely not at its finest but that never seemed to have stopped mankind. It was OXO, a version of tic-tac-toe created by A.S. Douglas was the first game to come out but a few years later William Higinbotham brought out “Tennis for Two” which was created for entertainment purposes rather then scientific. In the 60s SpaceWars! and Chase came out and it was in the 70s when Pong was released. If it wasn’t for the people from the 50’s who created dots and lines on computer screens I doubt that games would be as advanced as they are now and I wouldn’t be playing the games I play now.

The first game I ever played was Duck Hunt for the Nintendo Entertainment System where the aim was to shoot pixelated ducks with a gun, which for me was exciting more because of the large orange gun that came with the game and the crazy dog that poked its head out of the grass . This is a contrast to the game I have most recently played which is Dragoneer’s Arias for the Playstation Portable, a role-playing game which resembles a game I feel kept me playing video games. Though Duck Hunt is important in my gaming life it was Final Fantasy VII that got me truly hooked on video games. I can remember so vividly the opening sequence: the music starting up, the screech of the train brakes, the dingy lighting and eventually the main title. It was this game with it’s crazy plotline that made me continue playing Playstation games.