1980’s Gaming Industry

By Tim Hou

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The Commodore 64 was released in August, 1982. It became

extremely popular and one reason was that people could use their

joysticks from previous Atari consoles with it.

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The NES Zapper, the first light gun to be used with

the NES, was released and was very successful, inspiring other

controller variations.

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Nintendo release Game and Watch line which is the first handheld

electronic game. The console itself was deemed to be quite good but there was a lack of games and it

wasn’t too successful,

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The Video Crash of 1983 caused a large amount of companies to go bust and

resulted in peoples expenditure on games to drop leaving many games doing badly. It was blamed on a large amount of poor

games being produced.

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Nintendo Power magazine was first published due to the success of the NES. It was then ended when the

NES was discontinued in 1995.

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Nintendo released its NES console and it was bundled with Mario

Brothers and it became an immediate success. It was

particularly successful in North America and Japan until the 1990’s.

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In 1983 the idea of network gaming with personal computers took a leap with Snipes allowing different people

to play together in one game.

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Dedicated sound cards were invented meaning that the quality of the games on home computers were

greatly increased meaning that games could start to use better

sounds.

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The Intellivision was released by Mattel and it was immediately a

huge success. It was the first console to have better graphics that the Atari

2600.

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ColecoVision was introduced and on paper it was seen to be the better

console, however the shear competition of three consoles in the market and bad quality games meant

it didn’t get a lot of sales.

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Atari released its Atari 5200 Super System but was considered a failure due to the timing and also they put

more effort into their older 2600 model and less on the new console.

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