Space Invaders constituted the inspiration for other video games, it was spent on next platforms as well as his sequels was being created. R given in 1980. the version on Atari 2600 caused the four-times sale growth of this platform and she stayed first "killer app" of history of video games. The game was recalled and parodied in many TV programmes as well as she constituted the part of a few exhibitions cultural and concerning video games. The hostile alien became Rozpikselowany with icon representing the whole of computer games.

Even though the game is simple to present-day standards, it was one of precursors of contemporary computer games and it contributed to their transformation from the curiosity into the world industry. Space Invaders was a very popular game. Giving the game caused the short-lived deficiency of coins 100 in Japan - jenowych, and to 2007 the Taito company earned 500 m dollars. The Guinnessa book of records is exchanging the game as the smelting arcade game.

Space Invaders (of kissers. スペースインベーダー, Supēsu Inbēdā?) – is playing arcade Nishikado designed by Tomohiro, spent in 1978. Originally she was produced and sold by the Taito company in Japan, but later the licence for her production was sold to the Midway Games company, being a branch of the Bally company. Space Invaders is one of the earliest games of the type shoot 'em up.

First publicly available system for games, Magnavox Odyssey, had an opportunity to connect two control systems. Since then majority of the console available it is around two or with four entries to control systems. Games usually allow the game of at least two persons.

Computer games have always been social experience. The majority of games enables the game for the more than one person. Shared games enable the game against or in cooperation with other players among others through the Internet, by connecting a large number of controllers or with the help of the method of the hot chair, in which players are exchanging oneself with queues. Already Tennis for Two (one of the first computer games) made the game of two persons available.

Instead of it however the majority of publishers is choosing creating the game being based or used and tested already methods, drawing often from other games and ideas. All the more creating by publishers series of games, in which they often use the same heroes, situations, conflicts, mechanics of the game and the general climate in next sections of series became clear. Although many games are joining all sorts kinds, it isn't possible to categorize created games according to previously created kinds.

Recently computer games and the video started gaining the great popularity which caused the betterment production, and in the process, costs of creating games. Since players require talented actors of worlds putting voices for heroes, vast and folded and sound effects more and more directly around Hollywood, production costs grow and they require from the publisher (which wants the most to earn) of bigger cash contribution.

Games, the same as the majority of other media, can be categorised according to kinds based on mechanics of the game, an atmosphere and many other factors. In fact it is easier to categorize games than films, books or the music. From the reason of relatively short history, of technical restrictions for both commercializing the industry of computer games and the video on markets American and Japanese, games are experiencing exactly a period of the radical formalism.

The very beginning

The first game probably came into existence in 1947 and was started on Cathode Tube Ray (CRT). He was s a very simple game designed by Thomas T. Goldsmitha Jr. and Estle of Ray Semolina. The application for granting the patent was received on 25 January 1947, and it was granted by the American Patent Bureau by 14 December 1948. Identity number 2 received the product 455 992. Even though the filed application stayed in 1947, game was probably designed earlier into 1946.