A little of "history of games"...

           This topic might seem boring at the first sight, but it will not be as boring as you could think if you focused in the main topic that is video games. And more if it is going to addressed as a kind of introduction to video games itself.
Video games had their beginnings with the invention of the cathode ray tube amusement device, by the hand of Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann in 1947. Basically you're in control to a plane simulated by a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) beam on the screen and with a control knob you could manipulated it, so you could "kill" to other planes generated with the same CRT beam. Unfortunately it never saw the light and the public never got to try it and enjoy its characteristics. Later in the 1970s and the 1980s video games reached a high popularity with the introduction of the arcade video games, home computer games and gaming consoles to the public. Since then until nowadays, video games have become one of the hottest entertainment devices for most of the world population, and an important part of mankind's modern culture. Video game consoles have "its own timeline" to put it in a way, which is divided by eight generations, with the seventh and the eighth currently in effect. The previous is for separate consoles by its capabilities and additions, according to the new technologies that developed.