Publishers

Many publishers have made an excellent name for themselves with having brilliant hit releases, here are just a few of the publishers and the a game they have brought out:
Electronic arts - Black And White 2
Ubisoft - Rayman
Atari - Pacman
Lucas Arts - Star Wars Galaxies
Microsoft - Halo 2
Namco - Time Crisis

All These games have made these producers big. Every single one of these companaies started out as a small software developers and grew to what they are today.

Technology

8 Bit Games: ZOOL1 / ZOOL2, Doom, Mario (first ones made).

16 Bit Games: Megaman, Metroid, Zelda, Super Metroid, Star Fox.

32 Bit Games: Army men 3D, Megaman X 5, Alone in the dark 4, Final Fantasy 7, Lara Croft, Dead or Alive, Bubsy 3D, Thrasher, Crash Bandicoot, Alien Trilogy, Hercules, Spyro, Bugs and Taz Time Busters, Metal Gear Solid.

Even to this day games are becoming more realistic with new technology being found and used in our gaming consoles. Many companies have dedicated themselves to finding new technology to forward the gaming experiance and bring it to a new level.

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http://image.i-soldit.com/images/0027/100270002945/100270002945_07_04.jpg here are 2 classic examples of old style 64-bit games, i owned both of them for the atari jaguar. games have progressed allot since then but these games were some of the biggest game names of 1996. many of these games have lead on on to be major competitors in the gaming industry, such as doom, lately they have brought out doom 3 which was a major hit on the xbox,pc and PS2!

The first ever crime commited for altering a computer was against a bank programmer for programming a banks computer to ignore his overdrawn cheques in 1973!

there are 2 rating services, which review every game that is ever made

• E.S.R.B
• P.E.G.I

E.S.R.B stands for Entertainment Software Rating Board, they make no profit from what they do and are a self regulartory body.

P.E.G.I stands for Pan-European Game Information, they are a age rating company that is supported by many of the best consoles such as xbox, PS2 and Atari

Both these companies rate all the games which enter our country and make sure children aren't harmed by material seen in games