History Of Games Part 2- 1980s-1990s

While researching for the topic I am writing about today, I discovered that a lot of games were created during this period and that this was the beginning of different genres of games.

Some of the genres of games created during this time and an example of a game in this genre are (Information from Wikipedia):

• Adventure Games- King's Quest (created in 1984. This had colour graphics and a third person perspective).
• "Beat 'em Up" Games- Kung Fu Master (created in 1984, this was the basis af scrolling, beat 'em up games).
• Fighting Games- Karate Champ (created in 1984, this made one-on-one fighting games very popular).
• Maze Games- 3D Monster Maze (created in 1981, it was the 1st 3D game for a home computer).
• Platform Games- Mario Bros. (created in 1983, 1st game to allow co-operative play).
• Racing Games- Turbo (created in 1981, 1st game to have a third person perspective and a rear view format).
• Role-playing Games- Megami Tensei (created in 1987, broke the tradition of medival role playing games by in favour of sci-fi).
• Survival Horror Games-  Haunted House (created in 1981, 1st game to introduce elements of horror).

Personally, I think that it's safe to say that the most well known game of the 80's is definately Pacman (created in 1980) from the maze genre of games. This game is still played today and other spin-off games have been created from it later on such as Ms. Pacman and Pac Adventure.

Overall, I can see that games developed a lot during this period as they started to get more 3D, different types of games were developing to intrest differnent types of people and they started to get more like the games we have today. There was also more of a variety of games that could be played in the home and therefore, were able to be enjoyed at people's leisure. This period is a significant change from the 20 years before it as these were very basic games with simple light displays that could be controlled, during this period, things were formed and some of them (such as Pacman, Mario, and Legend of Zelda) are still very famous today.