When Sony initial launched the PlayStation nobody would have although that it would spark the gaming revolution that it has. Today it's a billion dollar industry and gaming is huge. Its the number one form of enjoyment and has overtaken sport and movies as an entertainment activity. Using the newest advances in technology the games are much more realistic, more interactive and more engaging than ever prior to.

Certainly one of the greatest improvements in gaming technology is interactive controls. While the very first era of console games only used a joystick, the 2nd era introduced a technologies that's set to transform games forever. When Nintendo Wii first arrived out with their Wii Controller it was absolutely nothing short of a technological breakthrough. For the initial time the joystick broke free from the coach and also the use now had the capability to interact physically with the game.

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The Xbox was released on November 15 2001 in US, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Europe and Australia. Xbox is the first-step of the software giant Microsoft to enter the industry of gaming. It is the console that competes with some of the gaming giants namely, Sony with its Playstation, Sega with Saturn, and Nintendo's GameCube.

With the help of their best-selling game called Halo, Microsoft was successful in dominating the industry that Nintendo, Sega, and Playstation were holding for years. I personally think that Microsoft owes a lot to Halo, because it will be very hard for them to knock the game console kings if they don't have this excellent game, which allows the players to compete with each other using the Xbox Live.

Xbox became very popular among gamers because it has the features that no gaming console could match during that time.

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Do you remember the time when you need to go to the arcade and use tokens just to play your favorite game? That was also the time when I would even skip classes just to go to arcades with my friends. Looking back to those times while comparing how games are played today really amazed me.

The video games came to life when Atari introduced their Atari 2600 in 1977. This is the first-ever video game console. During that time, this game console is very expensive and is being sold at $249 each, which is surprisingly the same price of the consoles we have today. The same year Nintendo released their first console called TV Game 6 and Midway with their Space Invaders.

In 1980 some of the classical games like Namco's Pacman and Atari's Asteroids were released. This is the time when everyone thought that gaming is at its peak, but things didn't go as planned.

By 1994, massive manufacturing of substandard cartridges made this industry crash.

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