A Brief History of Gaming: Part 2

Back in the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties, video gaming was still pretty niche as a hobby. By the time of the releases of the SNES and Genesis, things had come a long way, but there would be a long way yet left to go. Control schemes for controllers were becoming much more regular, at least on consoles, since everyone was using the same limited number of controls to be had. A new problem dawned however: For most families, you could have either an SNES or a Genesis, not both. This led to the back and forth that would come to be known as the Console Wars, because no one wanted to believe that they had gotten the ‘lesser’ of the consoles. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:875/1*WUFb1ylCGKaFVidFY3XX9Q.jpeg" style="height:700px; width:700px" /> CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY! Now, there were other systems that came out during this time, such as Turbo-Graphix 16, but they were outliers, and expensive ones at that. My house was the oddment, in that we were financially doing well enough to have both the Genesis and the SNES, as well as the computer, which got upgraded to a PC bearing Windows 3.1. It could run AOL, so that we could actually get online, which was a whole new thing, and I played my first MMO: The Sierra Network. <a href="https://medium.com/@dragonstryk72/a-brief-history-of-gaming-part-2-6c91c248147a">Visit Now</a>