Even though i wasn’t born when the original Video games with cartridges were first made, i’ve always had a respect for the firsts. In 1978 the first Cartridge console was available;That system was called the Odyssey 2. The first company to mass produce and monopolize the video game market was the Japanese company, Nintendo. Nintendo released it’s first Video Game console to the U.S. in 1985 and was called the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES for short. The console was pre-packaged with, now probably the most popular video game icon, Mario Bros. Mario Bros. sparked a revolution.
FOllowing the NES was the Super Nintendo, or the SNES. Then came hand held Nintendo systems such as the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance. The last system Nintendo released that used cartridges was the Nintendo 64, or N64. It was revolutionary and provided at that time, the greatest gaming graphics and 360 degree graphics.
Through more innovation and revolutionary thinking, the cartridge gaming system was replaced with the CD Disk. The Sony Playstation and Nintendo Game Cube were the first to capitalize on this (not considering computer games) and were strong competitive rivals to each other, both standing on their own unique ground and marketing to their own demographics.
In the last 30 years, the virtual gaming experienced has changed so much to where we are now the controller using visual, body cues. I can’t even imagine the future for video games in the next 5 years and how much it will change. We will see.
