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1983 year

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was created. (In the USSR, this prefix is known as "Dendy"). In Japan, and then in the rest of the world, a new set-top boom began. Following the NES, other third-generation consoles began to appear.

The first game with cutscenes. The Dragon's Lair slot machine was created. Inside the machine, the game was launched from a LaserDisc optical disc (CD type, only analog recording and a disc the size of a gramophone record). The game was an interactive cartoon.

On November 10, 1983, Microsoft officially unveiled its new Windows operating system to the public. (Although at that time "Windows" looked primitive against the background of developments by "Apple", but it was the "Windows" OS that made computer management clearer and easier for most ordinary people, and therefore increased the audience of potential computer users several times).

1984 year

Apple has released its new Macintosh (Mac) computer. In the first 6 months, 100,000 units were sold.

Firm "IBM" releases the computer "IBM PC AT" (286). Second generation of computers. This computer was the first to support a 16-color (EGA) color image. External data was read from 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy disks.

The quest "King's Quest" has been created. The creators are Sierra On-Line. The game was a third-person quest. The movement of the character had to be controlled by the arrow keys, and the commands had to be entered in text.

June 6, 1984 the world famous Russian game "Tetris" was developed. The game was created by Alexey Pazhitnov (employee of the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences) on the Elektronika-60 computer. (A little later in 1986 the game was published in the USA on IBM PC computers. In 1989 it was released on GameBoy handheld consoles).

1985 year

Commodore Amiga computers are on sale. Designed by engineer Jay Miner.

The legendary Super Mario Bros. game was created. The game was released on the NES console by Shigeru Miyamoto. The protagonist of the game - Mario becomes the official symbol of the "Nintendo" company. Although Mario had previously appeared in two more games as a character (Donkey Kong in 1981, Mario Bros. in 1983), it wasn't until the third Super Mario Bros. game that his real fame came to him. The plumber Mario games have evolved over time into the most popular game franchise.

The game "Battle City" (better known as "Tanchiki") was created.

The first commercial MUD game “Island of Kesmai” was created. Due to the fact that MUD games were located on the network, and not on personal computers, they could not be sold as regular games. They began to charge a fee for traffic originating from the CompuServe network where the game was located.

The online game "Habitat" by "Lucasfilm Games" was created. The game had full color graphics and a colorful interface. Habitat was a cross between social media and the Sims game. There were no adventures, labyrinths and monsters in the game, in it the players talked to each other most of the time, dressed their characters, bought virtual things, lived in a virtual apartment. The world of the game consisted of separate screens, going to the left or right edge of the screen, the player got to the next screen. There were more than 20 thousand such screens in total.

1986 year

The adventure game "The Legend of Zelda" is released. Creator - Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka from Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda ushered in a whole new genre of gaming. It was in this game that such concepts as “changing weapons”, “searching for secrets”, “neutral character”, “game store”, “game card”, “saving” appeared.

The first Japanese RPG "Dragon Quest" has been released. Japanese RPGs were very different from those created in the west. They were ranked as a separate genre of "jRPG".

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1987 year

A new standard has appeared for computer video cards - VGA (256 colors). Thanks to this, games have become much more colorful and more similar to modern ones.

The first computer sound card "AdLib" appeared. Prior to this, computers used a built-in speaker capable of producing only squeaks in various keys.

IBM has released its new PS / 2 computer.

The game "Maniac Mansion" by "LucasFilm" company was created for "Commodore 64" computers. In this quest game, the developers for the first time abandoned text commands and decided to actively use a computer mouse for gaming purposes. The mouse interface has been called "point-and-click".

The Final Fantasy jRPG game from Square Enix was created for the NES console. This was the beginning of the emergence of the most numerous series of games.

1988 year

The Japanese game console "Sega Mega Drive" is released. It supports all the innovations that took place in the computer world by that time: 16 bit graphics, 16 bit sound. A little later, it was possible to separately purchase a device for reading CD-disks, and even a modem for connecting to a computer network, to the set-top box. Sega Mega Drive has become the most popular 4th generation video game console. The total number of sold consoles "Sega Mega Drive" - 29 million units.

1989 year

The "GameBoy" pocket game console from Nintendo is released. One of the most famous games on this console is Tetris. It is thanks to “GameBoy” that the Russian game “Tetris” has gained worldwide fame and fame. "GameBoy" has sold a huge circulation around the world - more than 120 million copies of the console sold.

The first city-planning simulator "SimCity" was created. Creator - Sid Meyer. The game has tasks and missions, but if you wish, you can play without any restrictions and according to your own rules.

1990 year

The modern Internet (World Wide Web, WWW) has been created. Even before that computers were united into one global network, but this network was used only for transferring individual files via FTP. The ideas of Tim Berners-Lee were implemented: standards for creating Internet pages (HTML), Internet pages exchange protocol (HTTP) were adopted. (The rapid development of the Internet began only in 1993, when "Mosaic" appeared - the first Internet browser accessible to the understanding of ordinary users (without technical education in the field of computer technology).

1991 year

Nintendo launches its fourth generation console, the Super NES (SNES). Despite losing initiative, Nintendo ultimately outpaced Sega in terms of the number of consoles sold, with a total of 49 million SNES units sold.

Sonic the Hedgehog is coming to Sega Mega Drive. A game about a blue hedgehog running across the screen at supersonic speed. The game became the most popular game on the console, and then Sonic the Hedgehog even became the official symbol of Sega.

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