Today, video games are a billion dollar business. Children grow up knowing how to play an Xbox or
a Wii. Today’s children do not know a
time when video games were not everywhere.
However, video games have not always been so extravagant. When video games began, according to the
article At a University Archive,
Yesterday’s Cutting-Edge Video Games Play On, video games were nothing but a
floppy disc with a hand-drawn cover sheet in a Ziploc bag. They weren’t the fancy and colorful
advertisements that we see today. In
Austin, Texas, the University of Texas has composed a Videogame Archive to hold
these ancient videogames. Videogames
from as early as the 1970s are collected in this archive. Students at this university can study
videogames, much like film-study programs have become popular. This archive holds 1,500 games, as well as
gaming consoles and vintage computers.
The study of videogames shows not only where we have come
technologically, but also how far we have come culturally. Videogames can be seen as a form of art. It can also help students hoping to become
video-game designers. This may seem like
an outrageous thing to study, but it is just a step in our technological world.
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