ISSUES CONCERNING VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES

Issues Concerning Violence In Video Games



Issues Concerning Violence In Video Games

Introduction

To understand the impact that video games have in our society today, we must first know a little bit about the history of video games. According to the GameSpot, the physicist William Higinbotham has demonstrated the first video game at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, and he also invented his game called Tennis for Two, that played on an oscilloscope in 1958. In the early 1960, the student from MIT name Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!, this was the first game intended for computer use. The idea of playing video game on television, it wasn?t start until 1966 when television was just reaching mass market popularity. In 1967, Ralph Baer has the idea of using televisions for playing video game than just watching them. In 1967, Baer and his team are successful in creating two interactive television games which are chase game and tennis game. In addition, they also develop a toy gun which it detects spots of light on television screen.

Discussion

First video games are created to give people some kind of entertainment and help people to release their stress rather then violence video games. Early 1970?s the first computer space coin operated arcade video games is released by Nutting Associates. About 1500 machines are made but the game is not popular with player because it too difficult to play. In 1972, the first commercial video game console that could be played in the home was released by Magnavox know as Odyssey. This game console could play a little over a dozen games by switching out a cardstock template on the system. During the same year, the Atari carted Pong, which is adapted from tennis game on the Odyssey and Tennis for Two. This is the first successful of the coin operated arcade video game. In mid 1970, Fairchild Channel F is the second world home video games system with the first full-color video games that introduce by Fairchild Camera and Instrument. In 1976, Death Race is the first violence video game that introduce to the arcade game. In the same year, the first controversy about violence in video games developed after the introduction of the game Death Race according to the GameSport the Death Race was so aggressively rejected by the public that shortly after its release, Exidy pulled the game off store shelves. In the mid 1970s and late1970s most video games were nonviolence games.

Early 1980, the crash of the many products on shelves from different publisher and many company go out of business because a glut of poorly designed home video games flooded the American market, causing Atari to lose close to $600 million. The plunge, which began in 1983 and fell another 60 percent in 1984, bottomed out in 1985, when video games seemed totally dead (Kinder 88). It wasnt until 1984, Nintendo created the Famicom, short for family computer, and in 1985 they released it as the Nintendo Entertainment system ...