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The video game industry is the tertiary and quaternary sectors of the entertainment industry that specialize in the development, marketing, distribution, monetization, and consumer feedback of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. [1] The video game industry has grown from niche to ...
The modern video game industry grew out of the concurrent development of the first arcade video game and the first home video game console in the early 1970s in the United States. The arcade video game industry grew out of the pre-existing arcade game industry, which was previously dominated by electro-mechanical games (EM games).
Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame Industry is a book written by Leonard Herman. It is the fourth edition of a book that had been previously called Phoenix: The Fall & Rise of Videogames . The original book had been published in December 1994 by Rolenta Press and at the time of its publication, Phoenix was the first-ever comprehensive ...
This is a chronological list of years in video games that indexes the years in video games pages. Years are annotated with significant events in the history of video games . 1970s
A Brief History of Video Games: From Atari to Xbox One (ISBN 978-1472118806) by Richard Stanton (2015). A Brief History of Video Games covers a lot of games and a lot of stories spanning many decades. (Polygon) The Golden Age of Video Games: the Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry (ISBN 978-1-4398-7323-6) by Roberto Dillon
The history of video games transitioned into a new era early in the decade, however, with the rise of the commercial video game industry. The arcade video game industry grew out of the pre-existing arcade game industry, which was previously dominated by electro-mechanical games (EM games).
Arcade video games are often installed alongside other arcade games such as pinball and redemption games at amusement arcades. Up until the late 1990s, arcade video games were the largest [1] and most technologically advanced [2] [3] sector of the video game industry.
In 2023, the state of the video game market is, “big and getting bigger.” So why, from a player perspective, does it feel like the industry is… shrinking? Consolidation, game delays and ...