Gaming is over a $100 billion USD industry. But way back in the 1950s, video games were purely made for academic purposes. Video games were a medium to demonstrate the capabilities of a newly invented technology. They were also a good application to test AI applications through tic-tac-toe or chess. But access to such platforms was still limited to computer lab environments.
By the 1970s, the area of gaming started to change. Arcade gaming became very popular. The PC gaming landscape took proper shape in the 80s with programmable computers in almost every household equipped with popular games such as Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Prince of Persia, and more.
The 90s saw the emergence of legendary games such as Doom and Quake, which radically changed...
