Video games grew out of hobbies, rivalries, and markets that shaped what players could play. These curations trace the role-playing games of the 1980s, the 1990s demoscene subculture, the console wars between Sega and Nintendo, and the business and localization decisions behind games played across platforms and languages.
Cross-platform gaming, also called cross-play, is the ability for players using different video game hardware to play with each other simultaneously, commonly by letting players on one console play alongside players on another console or a computer.
The evolution of role-playing games in the 1980s is part of the history of tabletop role-playing games, which began in the 1970s when historical reenactment, improvisational theatre, parlour games, and fantasy wargame rulesets combined. Multiple TTRPGs were produced between the 1970s and early 1990s.
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture that makes self-contained programs producing audiovisual presentations, emerging with home computers and software cracking. What connects cracking games to a wider gaming culture, and how did this underground scene shape creative collaboration? The lessons trace that shift from cracking practices toward shared cultural identity and influence.
The history of the gaming console wars is the competition between two or more video game console manufacturers. The term became popular to describe competition between Sega and Nintendo during the late 1980s and early 1990s, as Sega attempted to break into the United States video game market with its Sega Genesis console.
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