A quick scan of the Internet will soon tell you that video gaming has been around for a while, with its roots as far back as the forties in fact, but it first became mainstream in the seventies, which is where we came in.
Home computers were in their infancy at this stage, but arcade machines were certainly around and by the late seventies the craze of video gaming had well and truly started.
Space Invaders and Asteroids appeared at the end of the seventies, quickly followed in the early eighties by classics such as Pac-Man, Defender and Donkey Kong. However it was not just in arcades that games were being played, home consoles had also appeared during this period.
The Binatone model is one that many of us remember, with the Atari being a step up with cartridge games increasing the selection massively.
The gaming scene has had its ups and downs since those early days, companies have come and gone, computer power is off the scale compared to what was available back then, but many of us remember those early days and still have an affinity with the early games such as Centipede and 1942. Like they say, once a gamer, always a gamer.
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