Username said:I know a lot of people like this. None of them realize that they all had to come in somewhere. The original video games were developed by SEGA, and American company. Now a lot of the market is dominated by Sony/Nintendo, which are Japanese companies. Eventually, they'll be gone too.ati said:First opinions are usually, "if it's not sony/nintendendo/apple/microsoft, it has no future". This is natural, considering how deep those monopolies are embedded on our lives. Most people cannot think of any other OS than vindoze and most of the rest knows only about macos. Anything that plays music is an eye-pod, etcetera.
It is us, the community, who can break this and of course, with a quality device from craig&co. Still, this won't be easy but I get happy when I see rain of comments form pandora guys, who really make a difference in that particular discussion.
SEGA? You seriously have no clue about the videogame history, sorry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games
The true videogame were invented mostly by USA people, in a very "accidental" way too. Games were just geek toys used in UNIX and other kind of advanced multiuser systems of that era, mostly were text based and based on the role playing games.
This changed whe Ralph Bauer started did the first commercial videogame set, but the big commercial boom started with Atari in 1972 and by Taito (japanese) in 1978. Initially the commercial sucess were on arcade machines, and then the home systems appeared later in form of computers and videogame systems.
Nintendo started doing toys, then the electronic era began. They disrtibuted the Magnavox Oddysey in 1974 and in 1977 they developed their own pong-like system. They moved to the arcade industry and ported many of their game to third party platforms. Then they released Game & Watch that gave them a great sucess, but nothing compared to the worldwide huge sucess of NES/Famicom.
NES gave Nintendo practically the monopoly of the videogame industry, much as with Sony recently.
Electromechanical games were quite older than electronic games and SEGA was started by American people in Hawaii, that's true.
The first electromechanical games date from 1929 in USA, the start of the pinball era. Maybe earlier, I have not checked this very deeply.
If you want to know about the origin of games, they weren't invented by Americans at all. They date from the origins of humanity as you can see here, people always was getting bored even in those very ancient times with too few commodities
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