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The Historical Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Society: PART I
Personal Statement: Gaming will always be one of my all-time hobbies. Why? Because I’m too icy with the heater.
Historical Evolution of Video Games.
The earliest mankind record of gaming dates back to the ancient Egyptian times of 3500 B.C. Though they did not necessarily have games of today, many of those games were board games, drawn-out, and written out but these ancient creations of games led to the modern creation of video games we have today. The history of modern video games starts with the creation of computers and the exploration and growth of computer programming.” Since their inception in the 1950s, video games have come a long way; with that advancement came more popularity, a growing demand, and an evolving culture” ( Boyle 2019). The earliest origin of video games was in scientific labs during the 1940s and 1950s because during that time computers were expensive, mammoth, and not fully ready for the average individual to use at the time. But also during this time, the first animation program for computers was created as well. According to Tom Sito, author of Moving Innovation: “A History of Computer Animation, “Using an obsolete, 1950s Cold War computer, built to track a Soviet nuclear attack, graduate student Ivan Sutherland created the first true animation program. For the first time, instead of presenting a series of numbers, a computer drew lines, and the lines formed recognizable images: a bridge, a leg moving, a face winking.” This was the first step taken in computer animation, which eventually led to computer-generated imagery and the graphics we see today in video games” (Boyle 2019).
With computer programmers learning to create video games it enhanced computer programming and language since games required more than difficult mathematical equations, syntax, and language that deviated from the normal and established procedures of computer programming and challenged the infinite potential of computers.
The first creation of a foundational video game was the OXO or better known as tic-tac-toe created by British Professor Sandy Douglas who studied at the University of Cambridge. The game was created for the EDSAC computer at Cambridge University but unlike the paper and pencil version of…
