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What is the future of gaming? To begin to guess, we first need to look at how the
gaming world has developed.
First of all, there were 2D games like pong and tetris. Many people call these the
‘golden years’ of gaming. These games were playable, but also poorly programmed,
and atrocious compared to the gaming expertise of today’s programmers.
Then we had left-to-right scrolling games, such as Mario games and side-scrolling
fighters.
During the next few years people decided to stick to the things they knew and poured
out more of these 2D games.
Then someone decided to look at games in a 3Dimensional way. Games were still
relatively flat, mostly side scrolling, and the extra dimension looked very bad graphic
wise. For a time 3D games did not take off.
And then game the first truly 3D games. A lot were still side-scrolling, but players
were given the opportunity to explore 3D worlds, however small and poorly rendered.
Then this idea of fully integrated 3D worlds took off. Developers made games in
which players did not have to go left to right but also forward and back at 360º. This
idea eventually led to Mario64 and GoldenEye type games.
The next idea to be introduced (before Mario and Goldeneye) was interactive
surrounding. If a player pressed a button, a wall would open, or if they went the wrong
way a trap took away health. This gave gamers their first real chance to just slightly
feel they were there.
Then game realistic walls - players could not walk through them anymore.
Artificial intelligence is one of the newest ideas to be forwarded onto the gaming
market.
But what about now?
A new idea has to be introduced.
Maybe players will be able to put on a headsets, and their own movements will affect
what the character does. With light guns, players may be able to enter virtual arenas,
where they are actually playing in the game.
Sega have begun to put this idea into 20 selected arcades in Japan. A fibre-optic arena
will create a virtual realm, where players will participate in athletic, combat and RPG
games, head to head.
A new 4th dimension could be added, as has been explored by PS DualShock and
Nintendo64 Rumble Packs. Players may feel a more direct link being able to turn on a
‘pain’ mode in which, if in the game the player is shot in the arm, the human gamer
will receive an electric shock in the arm. If a player falls off a ledge he/she will have
to take up a landing position to guide their character etc. in racing games players will
be thrown forward in a specially designed chair to simulate a head on collision.
In games like Tomb Raider, players will have to hold their breathe whil lara swims,
and in the virtual world, the same chair as mentioned above will be jet-skis and quad
bikes.
These 3/4D arenas will herald the start of a new game genre - interactive games. In
games like microsofts flight simulator, you can pilot the craft but also interact with the
passengers. With this kind of technology, their would be virtually no limits to gaming
Well these are my opinions, if you have any different views please reply to this
message.
ThankYou
TheBest
gaming world has developed.
First of all, there were 2D games like pong and tetris. Many people call these the
‘golden years’ of gaming. These games were playable, but also poorly programmed,
and atrocious compared to the gaming expertise of today’s programmers.
Then we had left-to-right scrolling games, such as Mario games and side-scrolling
fighters.
During the next few years people decided to stick to the things they knew and poured
out more of these 2D games.
Then someone decided to look at games in a 3Dimensional way. Games were still
relatively flat, mostly side scrolling, and the extra dimension looked very bad graphic
wise. For a time 3D games did not take off.
And then game the first truly 3D games. A lot were still side-scrolling, but players
were given the opportunity to explore 3D worlds, however small and poorly rendered.
Then this idea of fully integrated 3D worlds took off. Developers made games in
which players did not have to go left to right but also forward and back at 360º. This
idea eventually led to Mario64 and GoldenEye type games.
The next idea to be introduced (before Mario and Goldeneye) was interactive
surrounding. If a player pressed a button, a wall would open, or if they went the wrong
way a trap took away health. This gave gamers their first real chance to just slightly
feel they were there.
Then game realistic walls - players could not walk through them anymore.
Artificial intelligence is one of the newest ideas to be forwarded onto the gaming
market.
But what about now?
A new idea has to be introduced.
Maybe players will be able to put on a headsets, and their own movements will affect
what the character does. With light guns, players may be able to enter virtual arenas,
where they are actually playing in the game.
Sega have begun to put this idea into 20 selected arcades in Japan. A fibre-optic arena
will create a virtual realm, where players will participate in athletic, combat and RPG
games, head to head.
A new 4th dimension could be added, as has been explored by PS DualShock and
Nintendo64 Rumble Packs. Players may feel a more direct link being able to turn on a
‘pain’ mode in which, if in the game the player is shot in the arm, the human gamer
will receive an electric shock in the arm. If a player falls off a ledge he/she will have
to take up a landing position to guide their character etc. in racing games players will
be thrown forward in a specially designed chair to simulate a head on collision.
In games like Tomb Raider, players will have to hold their breathe whil lara swims,
and in the virtual world, the same chair as mentioned above will be jet-skis and quad
bikes.
These 3/4D arenas will herald the start of a new game genre - interactive games. In
games like microsofts flight simulator, you can pilot the craft but also interact with the
passengers. With this kind of technology, their would be virtually no limits to gaming
Well these are my opinions, if you have any different views please reply to this
message.
ThankYou
TheBest
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What is the future of gaming? To begin to guess, we first need to look at how the
gaming world has developed.
First of all, there were 2D games like pong and tetris. Many people call these the
‘golden years’ of gaming. These games were playable, but also poorly programmed,
and atrocious compared to the gaming expertise of today’s programmers.
Then we had left-to-right scrolling games, such as Mario games and side-scrolling
fighters.
During the next few years people decided to stick to the things they knew and poured
out more of these 2D games.
Then someone decided to look at games in a 3Dimensional way. Games were still
relatively flat, mostly side scrolling, and the extra dimension looked very bad graphic
wise. For a time 3D games did not take off.
And then game the first truly 3D games. A lot were still side-scrolling, but players
were given the opportunity to explore 3D worlds, however small and poorly rendered.
Then this idea of fully integrated 3D worlds took off. Developers made games in
which players did not have to go left to right but also forward and back at 360º. This
idea eventually led to Mario64 and GoldenEye type games.
The next idea to be introduced (before Mario and Goldeneye) was interactive
surrounding. If a player pressed a button, a wall would open, or if they went the wrong
way a trap took away health. This gave gamers their first real chance to just slightly
feel they were there.
Then game realistic walls - players could not walk through them anymore.
Artificial intelligence is one of the newest ideas to be forwarded onto the gaming
market.
But what about now?
A new idea has to be introduced.
Maybe players will be able to put on a headsets, and their own movements will affect
what the character does. With light guns, players may be able to enter virtual arenas,
where they are actually playing in the game.
Sega have begun to put this idea into 20 selected arcades in Japan. A fibre-optic arena
will create a virtual realm, where players will participate in athletic, combat and RPG
games, head to head.
A new 4th dimension could be added, as has been explored by PS DualShock and
Nintendo64 Rumble Packs. Players may feel a more direct link being able to turn on a
‘pain’ mode in which, if in the game the player is shot in the arm, the human gamer
will receive an electric shock in the arm. If a player falls off a ledge he/she will have
to take up a landing position to guide their character etc. in racing games players will
be thrown forward in a specially designed chair to simulate a head on collision.
In games like Tomb Raider, players will have to hold their breathe whil lara swims,
and in the virtual world, the same chair as mentioned above will be jet-skis and quad
bikes.
These 3/4D arenas will herald the start of a new game genre - interactive games. In
games like microsofts flight simulator, you can pilot the craft but also interact with the
passengers. With this kind of technology, their would be virtually no limits to gaming
Well these are my opinions, if you have any different views please reply to this
message.
ThankYou
TheBest
gaming world has developed.
First of all, there were 2D games like pong and tetris. Many people call these the
‘golden years’ of gaming. These games were playable, but also poorly programmed,
and atrocious compared to the gaming expertise of today’s programmers.
Then we had left-to-right scrolling games, such as Mario games and side-scrolling
fighters.
During the next few years people decided to stick to the things they knew and poured
out more of these 2D games.
Then someone decided to look at games in a 3Dimensional way. Games were still
relatively flat, mostly side scrolling, and the extra dimension looked very bad graphic
wise. For a time 3D games did not take off.
And then game the first truly 3D games. A lot were still side-scrolling, but players
were given the opportunity to explore 3D worlds, however small and poorly rendered.
Then this idea of fully integrated 3D worlds took off. Developers made games in
which players did not have to go left to right but also forward and back at 360º. This
idea eventually led to Mario64 and GoldenEye type games.
The next idea to be introduced (before Mario and Goldeneye) was interactive
surrounding. If a player pressed a button, a wall would open, or if they went the wrong
way a trap took away health. This gave gamers their first real chance to just slightly
feel they were there.
Then game realistic walls - players could not walk through them anymore.
Artificial intelligence is one of the newest ideas to be forwarded onto the gaming
market.
But what about now?
A new idea has to be introduced.
Maybe players will be able to put on a headsets, and their own movements will affect
what the character does. With light guns, players may be able to enter virtual arenas,
where they are actually playing in the game.
Sega have begun to put this idea into 20 selected arcades in Japan. A fibre-optic arena
will create a virtual realm, where players will participate in athletic, combat and RPG
games, head to head.
A new 4th dimension could be added, as has been explored by PS DualShock and
Nintendo64 Rumble Packs. Players may feel a more direct link being able to turn on a
‘pain’ mode in which, if in the game the player is shot in the arm, the human gamer
will receive an electric shock in the arm. If a player falls off a ledge he/she will have
to take up a landing position to guide their character etc. in racing games players will
be thrown forward in a specially designed chair to simulate a head on collision.
In games like Tomb Raider, players will have to hold their breathe whil lara swims,
and in the virtual world, the same chair as mentioned above will be jet-skis and quad
bikes.
These 3/4D arenas will herald the start of a new game genre - interactive games. In
games like microsofts flight simulator, you can pilot the craft but also interact with the
passengers. With this kind of technology, their would be virtually no limits to gaming
Well these are my opinions, if you have any different views please reply to this
message.
ThankYou
TheBest