Decades
This decade saw the first trackball and joystick controllers developed for WW2 radar systems.
What is the 1940s?
This console generation was dominated by the Atari Odyssey and the game "Pong".
What is the first console generation?
Card games were traditionally based on the 52-card playing deck, but collectable strategy card games have been around since 1993. Name one of these card games.
What is
Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!
?
This video game genre includes:
League Sports:
Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Hockey, Volleyball,
Individual Sports:
Skiing/Snowboarding, Golf, Boxing, Bowling, Skateboarding, Tennis
What are Sports Games?
Born: Washington DC on November 3rd, 1962
Developed:
Team Fortress 2, Half-Life, Portal
Founded:
Valve, Steam (75% of PC games bought online)
Who is Gabe Newell?
This decade saw the invention of the Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV (or monitor); allowing for color images.
What is the 1950s?
This console generation is marked by 8-bit microprocessors, the first D-pad controller, the Zapper light gun, and the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System).
What is the third console generation?
This board game comes from biblical times (with variations found across ancient Europe and Asia) and is still played today.
What is Backgammon?
This video game genre includes:
Action Puzzle, Matching Tiles, Logic, Traditional Puzzles, Physics
What are Puzzle Games?
Born: Russia (USSR) on April 16, 1955
Developed:
Tetris (most popular video game of all time)
Who is Alexey Pajitnov?
This decade saw the invention of the first computer mouse.
What is the 1960s?
This console generation's "top dog" was the Atari 2600 with its removable and swappable ROM cartridges.
What is the second console generation?
The oldest known board game.
(Found in an Egyptian tomb from 3500 BCE.)
What is Senet?
This video game genre includes:
Fantasy RPGs, Sci-Fi RPGs, Historical RPGs, Western RPGs, Eastern RPGs, Action Adventure
What are Role-Playing Games (RPGs)?
Born: Sarnia, Canada on February 24, 1954
Developed:
______'s Civilization, ______'s Pirates
A prolific and successful video game programmer and designer; His legacy reaches back into the early 80s and is considered one of the most influential and prolific game makers of all time.
Who is Sid Meier?
This decade saw the introduction of the video display terminal (VDT) combined with electric typewriter using CRT technology.
What is the 1960s?
This generation saw the first CD-ROM game disks and 3D games. There was the Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, and the market leader: the Sony Playstation.
What is the fifth generation of consoles?
This game is from around the 6th century CE and was passed from culture to culture through various assimilations of people via conquering nations.
What is Chess?
This video game genre includes:
MMORPGs, MMO-Strategy, MMO-Simulation
What are Massively Multiplayer Online Games?
“The father of modern gaming”
Born: Sonobe, Japan on November 16, 1952
Developed:
Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Star Fox, the Legend of Zelda, etc.
Who is Shigeru Miyamoto?
In this decade, the first home video game consoles were sold.
What is the 1970s?
This generation began with the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) which included 16-bit graphics and stereo audio, but it was soon topped by the Super NES which also had 16-bit graphics.
What is the fourth generation of consoles?
The predecessors of Turn-Based Strategy video games, and sometimes called "bookshelf games", they combined the complex strategy of chess-like games with elements of a classic board game.
(Typically, these games included a massive rulebook, a large map and hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny cardboard chits representing troops, artillery, or other units.)
What are strategy war games?
This video game genre includes:
Life/City/Industry Sims, Survival-Horror, Educational, Tactical-Shooter
What are Simulation Games?
The creator of Pokémon, one of the most successful hand-held gaming system titles of all time.
Born: Machida, Japan on August 28, 1965
Developed:
Pokemon series (+ Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda)
Who is Satoshi Tajiri?
In this decade, the computer mouse became standard equipment for personal computers.
What is the 1980s?
This generation was dominated by the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 while Nintendo took a loss on the Wii U.
What is the eighth console generation?
Dungeons & Dragons is the most famous of this non-digital game genre and is the grandfather of all RPG video games that came after.
(These games use dice, stats, powers, a Game Master, rulebook(s), and player imagination)
What are table-top RPGs?
This video game genre includes:
Turn-Based, Real-Time, 4X, Time-Based, Tower Defense
What are Strategy Games?
Born: Hitachi, Japan on November 25, 1962
Developed:
the Final Fantasy series
Who is Hironobu Sakaguchi?
In this decade, the QWERTY keyboard layout became the standard, the first modern computer mouse was released.
What is the 1970s?
The "real console war" begins in this generation with the Nintendo Gamecube, the PC-like Xbox from Microsoft, and the most popular and successful gaming console in history: the Sony Playstation 2.
What is the sixth generation?
Although wildly popular, even today, these games lack complex game design. In fact, most games in this category are barely much more than games of chance and luck.
(Parker Brothers is a huge manufacturer and distributor of this style of board games. Examples: Clue, Risk, Sorry!, Monopoly, ...)
What are family board games?
This video game genre includes:
Party Games and Dance Games
What are Social Games?
Born: Shawnee Mission, KS on August 20, 1970
Developed:
Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein
Currently the CTO of Oculus VR
Who is John Carmack?
In this decade, Alan Turing invented the theoretical Turing Machine.
(a machine that could perform mathematical calculations)
What is the 1930s?
In this generation are the Microsoft Xbox 360, the Sony Playstation 3, and the Nintendo Wii with its motion controllers.
What is the seventh generation of consoles?
A "new" crop of intellectually challenging board games. In these games, thought has gone into their game design to make them more than experiences of random chance.
(Settlers of Catan is a popular game in this category.)
What are advanced board games?
This video game genre includes:
Hack and Slash, Fighting Games, Pinball, Fighter Pilot, Racing, Platform Jumpers
What are Arcade games?
"Lord British"
Born: Cambridge, UK on July 4, 1961
Developed:
the Ultima series
Founded:
Portalarium
He visited the ISS in 2008 (& shot a movie during).
Who is Richard Garriott?