Game notes

Street fighter; first games 1987, fighting

arcade game, developed and published by
capcom, best release street fighter 2, highest
growing fighting game, creators Takashi
Nishiyama and Hiroshima Matsumoto,
platforms; every playstation platform, all
every xbox platforms, a lot of
Nintendo ]platforms like NES,3DS switch and
a lot more. It has created 6 main games and
been mix into lots of others. It created the
word button mashing. Earliest arcade game
for capcoms cps system produced 2 dozen
arcade titles.

Pac-man; originally called puck man,1980,

maze action game, developed and released by
Namco, arcade game, directed by Toru
Iwatani, lead to several sequels did very well,
introduced the concept of a playable
character, pac-man did influence a couple of
games, it bought friendly arcade games back
in fashion, was played on many play platforms
mostly later on in the years, it won best
commercial arcade game 1982 and video
software dealers and VSDA award for best
videogame.

fortnite; online video game, survival game,

developed by epic games, published in 2017,
platforms playstation, xbox, Nintendo switch
and phones, created the genre battle royal,
overwhelming success, very successful over
125 million player under a year, generated 9
billion until December 9 2019, has 2 game
modes battle royal and save the world, has
created a new genre in online gaming and
competitions, nominated for several awards ,
won best competitive game in 2018, won all
gamers choice awards in 2018,

Wolfstein 3d; first person shooter, released

1992, developed by id software, published by
apogee software and form gen, directed by
Tom Hall, designed by John Romero and tom
hall, programmed by john carmack and john
romero, actually offered a 3d experience and
was more intense and faster then about every
action game, first game that was actually gory
and created a new genre, won gamepro’s
game of 1995.

Super mario bros; platformer game,

developed and published by Nintendo made
foe NES, made 1985, in Japan, in the us got
put on arcade machines in 1986, could be
played one or 2 players, designed by Shigeru
Miamoto and Takashi Tezuka they also
designed donkey kong, cited as the greatest
video game of all time and its one of the best-
selling games of all time with more than 58
million copies sold world-wide, Koji Kondos
soundtrack became very popular making it a
staple in games from then on, very

Pokemon go; published 2016, augmented

reality AR, made as the Pokémon franchise
made for mobile devises, most used and
profitable mobile games in 2016 had been
downloaded more than 500 million times,
promoted physical activity, made 6 billion by
2020, developers and publishers Niantic,
director Tatsuo Nomura, it used physical
activity to play the game, it made AR popular
in gaming, it won game awards best mobile
game 2016, BAFTA game awards best mobile
game 2017 and game awards best family
game and is still played and updated.

Minecraft; sandbox, developed by Mojang

studios, created by Markus Persson, made in
Java programming, made public in 2009 as a
beta being fully released in 2011, best selling
video game ever, 140 million monthly players
still in 2021, survival game, made of 3D
blocks, wide variety of user-generated
content (mods), has been made In to many
different merchandise, also has a convention,
used as also educational environments,
Mojang sold Minecraft to Microsoft in 2014,
has won 6 awards consisting of; kids choice
awards 2015,2020 and 2022, BAFTA game
awards best family game 2015, VGX best
independent game 2011 and BAFTA game
awards special award 2012, Minecraft made
an open world game that had now story or
objectives you chose what you did, impacted
video games from then on.

Call of duty; first-person shooter video game

franchise developed and published by
Activision, starting in 2003 focused on games
set in WW2, it has been developed by several
companies being; Treyarch, Sledge hammer
games and raven software, as of April 2021 it
has sold 400 million copies, call of duty 3 is a
fan favourite when it comes to call of duty
published in 2015, released on PS4, windows
and XBOX one, sold 26.72 million copies.
Nominated for BAFTA awards for esports
audience in 2016 and also got nominated for
a lot in NAVGTR awards in 2016,
Gta V; released in 2013 as an action-
adventure game developed by rockstar north
published by rockstar games, seventh entry
into the grand theft auto series, single player
game but later on brought out GTA V online,
can be played in third or first person, released
on PS3, PS4 and PS5 and all Xboxes and
windows, becoming the fastest selling
entertainment product in history, earnt 800
million in 1 day and in 3 made 1 billion, one
game of the year, considered as one of the
best games ever made, second best-selling
game of all time, has made all time 6 billion in
revenue, for the first time in all gta series the
player controlled 3 players, won 7 games
awards,