< History of video games

Foundational developments

A Cincinnati, Ohio duo debuts the first known modern cosplay in 1908.[1][2] Near the end of the century, cosplay would become a staple at a number of events, including gaming conventions.

The first Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 1967 employs women as "CES Guides", with this position later being recognized as the origin of the controversial "Booth Babe" of later conventions.[3][4]

The first ACM SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics) convention is held in Boulder, Colorado in 1974 to focus on computer graphics technology.[5] Though computer graphics work would have an indirect effect on the gaming market, SIGGRAPH would later take more direct involvement in the gaming industry with dedicated symposiums on video games.[6]

On December 21st, 1975 the first Comic Market (Comiket) is held at the Fire Defense Building in Tokyo, Japan to celebrate manga and to a lesser extent anime / Japanimation.[7][8] While not a gaming convention per say, a number of important series saw their first releases at future Comikets, such as Comiket 52 in 1997 which saw the first Touhou game releases sold at a booth manned by Zun.[9]

CES 1979 showcased a number of Atari computers.[10] The Emerson Arcadia 2001 is debuted at CES 1982,[11] and the Nintendo Entertainment System sees its North American Debut at CES 1985.[10]

First video game focused conventions

25 developers meet at a house in 1988 for the first Game Developer Conference (GDC).[12]

The first Nintendo Spaceworld convention is held in 1989.[13]

1990's

The first Assembly demoparty is held in 1992.[14]

The first Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) is held in 1995.[15]

The first Tokyo Game Show is held at Big Sight in Tokyo Japan in August of 1996.[16][17]

2000's

The first Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) is held in 2004.[18]

2010's

2020's

References

  1. ↑ "Was Mr. Skygack the First Alien Character in Comics?" (in en-us). https://io9.gizmodo.com/was-mr-skygack-the-first-alien-character-in-comics-453576089.
  2. ↑ "Cosplay Is Over 100 Years Old" (in en-us). https://cosplay.kotaku.com/cosplay-is-over-100-years-old-1777013405.
  3. ↑ Greenfield, Rebecca (7 January 2013). "A Brief History of CES Booth Babes" (in en). https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/ces-booth-babes-history/319817/.
  4. ↑ June, Laura (4 January 2013). "Incredible photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2014". https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/4/3828848/ces-photo-history.
  5. ↑ "History of the Organization". https://www.siggraph.org/about/history/.
  6. ↑ "Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Video Games - Sandbox '10" (in en). ACM Press. 2010. doi:10.1145/1836135. https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1836135.
  7. ↑ "Brief History of Comiket". https://www.comipress.com/article/2008/08/03/3636.html.
  8. ↑ "Comic Market 1975 Information". https://animecons.com/events/info/3047/comic-market-1975.
  9. ↑ Wang, Nathan (1 February 2019). "Touhou Project: The Power of Niche Media" (in en). https://medium.com/@nxwang/touhou-project-the-power-of-niche-media-25d698602889.
  10. 1 2 "Revisiting the defining moments of CES history" (in en). https://www.engadget.com/2018-01-05-new-tech-at-ces-history.html.
  11. ↑ "Arcadia 2001". https://thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=console/arcadia-2001.
  12. ↑ "About GDC". 26 July 2018. https://gdconf.com/about-gdc.
  13. ↑ "Paper Mario's Roots As A Super Mario RPG Sequel". 31 July 2020. https://www.thegamer.com/paper-mario-super-mario-rpg-sequel/.
  14. ↑ Reimer, Jeremy (29 April 2013). "A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene" (in en-us). https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-9-the-demo-scene/2/.
  15. ↑ Campbell, Colin (7 June 2019). "The story of the first E3" (in en). Polygon. https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/6/7/18653968/e3-history-1995-sega-saturn-nintendo-64-playstation-launch.
  16. ↑ "Tokyo Game Show 1996" (in en). 2 November 2020. https://segaretro.org/Tokyo_Game_Show_1996.
  17. ↑ "TOKYO GAME SHOW2005 Release". https://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2005a/english/release0804.html.
  18. ↑ "History". https://www.paxsite.com/history.

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