Allen Zhuk 11/9/16 English 120 Professor Peterson Game World Creator of Mario, the most important video game character of all time, Shigeru Miyamoto once said “The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences”. From its inception, video games have been a medium of entertainment. As a medium however, video games are relatively young, with the first video game having been released to households in only 1972. That game was Pong, a game which involved two moving rectangles and a square. In less than 45 years we have games that range from Pac-Man to games with massive open worlds and huge cinematic stories that rival film and television. Being such a young medium has caused video games to come under criticism for being a mindless waste of time …show more content…
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