Electronic shooter game

Electronic shooter, a kind of electronic game in which players control a character or unit using weapons to shoot enemies. While games with "light pistols" and photographic receivers were already experienced in the 1930s, the birth of this type of electronic games only began in 1962 with Spacewar !, a software developed to show the power of PDP for Digital Equipment Corporation - 1 mini computer. The game contained stellar objects generating gravitational fields that two players had to take into account when maneuvering their spaceship while shooting at them with different asteroids. American programmers Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney simplified the game to someone who had photographed the alien spacecraft. This version was published by Nutting Associates under the title Computer Space (1971), the first electronic game produced in series with coins. or arcade. Bushnell and Dabney later founded Atari Inc., from which they launched the first commercially successful arcade game Pong (1972), an electronic sports game based on ping-pong (ping-pong).
Although Computer Space had a steep learning curve to demonstrate its commercial success, the same can not be said of Space Invaders (1978). Space Invaders, an arcade console produced by Taito Corporation in Japan and licensed to Bally Technologies in the US, was a huge success - to the point that Japan faced a temporary shortage of 100 yen coins , used to play. In 1980, Space Invaders became the first licensed arcade game for a home gaming console, the Atari 2600. Atari also released Asteroids (1979) and Missile Command (1980) as front arcade games to go to the personal and personal consoles. computer (pC).

Although early shooters generally have limited player mobility, generally not allowing the player to move a weapon horizontally or vertically along the edges of the screen, the increased computing power has increased game development from a first perspective . of the person was played. Although Wolfenstein 3-D (1992), produced by id Software for PC, is not the original FPS game, it sets the standard for the subgenre. Id Software was successful with Doom (1993), the first FPS game to support multiple players. Duke Nukem 3D (1996), Quake (1996), Half-Life (1998) and Unreal Tournament (1999) are other popular FPS games released in the 1990s. This sub-genre has particularly stimulated the development of the computer market. personal, players often hastening to update or replace their personal computers to handle more and more realistic game engines.