Argumentative Essay About Video Games

Video games are one of the greatest inventions to ever be created. I say this because they have been played and enjoyed for generations. Another reason I say video games are great is because I love them I use them almost every day, and they give me joy if I’m having a bad day or if I just want to have fun they are very helpful for that. Video games have helped lots of people in lots of different ways like if you had something bad going on in your life, video games can help you escape all of that for a little and when you play them it feels like you are in a different world where you can fly, and it comforts people to forget about their problems for a little. Also if you were angry at something you could take your anger out on aliens or other
But games didn’t really become popular until Atari created pong in arcade machines that they strategically placed around the world. Then they made the Atari 2600 that allowed you to play more than pong at your house using cartridges. “Scientist William Higginbotham created a game where a ball bounced from side to side, and the goal is to hit the ball with the paddle so it doesn’t get past your side and it was called tennis for two” (“History”) and this was the first video game and “the first video game was created at Brookhaven national laboratory in Upton, New York” (Kent). After Atari made a horrible game based on the movie E.T. There was a huge video game crash and for a while no one was buying games. That was until 1985 when “the Japanese company Nintendo introduces NES or Nintendo entertainment system” (“History”) on this system was one of the most popular games ever “Super Mario Bros.” And it featured one of the most notorious video game characters ever and it was an Italian plumber named Mario, and this console pulled the video game market out of its crash. There are many factors to why video games are so popular like the nes and Atari 2600, and to this day more and more consoles have been created and there popularity has not slowed down
“Atari spent millions of dollars in 1982 to make a home version of the hit movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in hopes that people who liked the movie would also like the game. Many people, however, were upset at the poor quality of the game, and it did not sell well. Atari lost the money it put into the game and nearly went out of business” (“history”). This game was a big part of the video game crash in 1983. Nintendo pulled the game market out of its crash when they released the NES or Nintendo entertainment system in 1985, and on this console they created on of the most popular video games of all time Super Mario Bros, and this game created one of the most well known video game characters who was an Italian plumber named Mario who is Nintendo’s biggest character and marketing piece by far. “In 1995 Sony released the PlayStation to compete with Nintendo and Sega. This console used CD-roms instead of cartridges, this allows games to store more information, and this led to movie quality graphics, and less expensive games” (“history”). One year after the PlayStation Nintendo released the n64, But people preferred the PlayStation, and it outsold the n64. In 2000 Sony released the PlayStation 2, and it went on to become the most successful console of all time selling more than 157 million units. One year after the ps2 Microsoft releases the Xbox. Video games will never stop getting newer and