Everyday nearly 2.2 billion people around the globe play video games on gaming consoles and PC. In the current era games are ultra-realistic and made to hook you in with their special features. Video games in their early era were not as much as real as they do nowadays. It took more than half a century of development and hard work. Video game industry is worth trillions of dollars because of this development and hard work. Most of the gamers play video games on PC and not on gaming consoles because of accuracy and efficiency. Technology is what made it possible for this trillions of dollars’ worth industry let jump in to details of the evolution of video games.

In the early 1950’s scientists developed simple computer games such as Tic Tac Toe and the bertie the brain. But in 1961 some students at the Massachusetts institute of technology or MIT developed the world’s widely recognized video game called spacewar! For the PDP-1 mainframe computers. The game became widely popular in the United States after the students left the MIT.  

After the invention of GUIs of Graphical User Interface game development took a whole new turn and jumped in to a whole new era of ultra-realistic graphic gaming. In the 90’s PC’s took over from the gaming consoles as a gaming medium and people started closing the game arcades. In the 2000’s 3D games took over the markets and in 2010’s HD games started to mesmerize people around the globe. In the Revolution of video games, video game companies started using motion capture and motion scan technology more often to make their games more realistic. 

The world of video games saw new twist after the introduction of online games. A lot of the game companies featured an online feature to connect a user or gamer to other users or gamers. Online games made it easy for people to play games because most of their computing depend on that game company’s GPU’s and servers. With VR technology people started experience the games that they play. Augmented reality will take things further up in the user experience.