Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Jun 25, 2016 2:05:46 GMT
Popular culture isn't something that seems to be brought up much in Future History (for fair enough reasons, it's freaking impossible to predict. Like the weather, you can get a good estimate about a week ahead, and afterwards its all guesswork). What it tends to be, from my experience, is that it seems like pop culture just freezes and stays the same forever. This of course is hardly the case.
Video games as we know them were only invented in the 60's, and became truly popular with Pong, released in 1972, only 44 years ago. Ever since, Video games absolutely boomed (busted in 1977), and boomed some more. For a much more detailed history of video games (which honestly, I don't want to go through right now), I suggest Crash Course Games here, still in production. Right now, as diverse as Video Games are, a couple of major camps rule: The Shooter, seeing new light with Overwatch, with its former king Call of Duty, well, you know; The MMORPG, running rampant since RuneScape and WoW premiered; the Casual Games, the absolute money-making, micro-transaction whoring monster; and Indie games, which have been on a steep rise recently.
What do you think? What will be the next big genre, what will be the next big innovation? Will virtual games eventually gain a grounding? Will a new player enter the console wars?
Video games as we know them were only invented in the 60's, and became truly popular with Pong, released in 1972, only 44 years ago. Ever since, Video games absolutely boomed (busted in 1977), and boomed some more. For a much more detailed history of video games (which honestly, I don't want to go through right now), I suggest Crash Course Games here, still in production. Right now, as diverse as Video Games are, a couple of major camps rule: The Shooter, seeing new light with Overwatch, with its former king Call of Duty, well, you know; The MMORPG, running rampant since RuneScape and WoW premiered; the Casual Games, the absolute money-making, micro-transaction whoring monster; and Indie games, which have been on a steep rise recently.
What do you think? What will be the next big genre, what will be the next big innovation? Will virtual games eventually gain a grounding? Will a new player enter the console wars?
