A review of the evolution of video games in the gamer month

Play on a console or on your PC Today, it is a complete experience in which sounds, images and story come together to create a digital adventure within your control. From the first video games until today, memory has played an important role in ensuring that programs are played and, more recently, in saving complete games with the security that the score and evolution of our characters are not lost when we turn off our equipment.

In this mes Gamer(on August 29th the World Day of Peace was celebrated gamer day, decided in 2008 by a group of Spanish magazines specialized in video gamesThe objective was to create a celebration with the aim of redefining the importance that video games have as entertainment, and mainly to highlight that it is an activity that unites millions of people around the world) Kingston remember the development of the video gamesas over the years it has worked on each of its products to respond to the demand of players with greater capacity, speed and efficiency.

If we travel back in time, we will discover that since 1952, the year in which the first video game called “Nought and crosses” appeared (known by some as Tic tac toe and by others as Cat), only one base memory was required to start the operation of an entire machine, to start the program.

It was around 1966 that Ralph Baer began working on what would become the first home or console video game, “Fox and Hounds,” from which the first known brand would appear. “Magnavox Odyssey” and that would later trigger a series of projects that would gain strength throughout the 70s and 80s with brands such as Atari, Coleco, Commodore, Namco, Nintendo and Sega. Just to mention the most memorable ones.

The main basis of these games were the famous “cartridges”, memories in which the program with the corresponding video game was stored and which allowed us to change from one theme to another, once the player got tired of dodging the barrels that Donkey Kong threw, to move on to a short adventure in some labyrinth.

It was in the 90s and until the year 2000 that it evolved from a simple technology of 8 bits to 16 bitsand later to 32, 64 and 128 bit, which translated into more detailed graphics, more elaborate stories, more impressive sounds and the possibility of extending our fun to unimaginable fields.

In this whole process, memories played a key role, as they were not only used to store the video game program, either in a cartridge or in a DVD-ROM, but also the player could save all his progress, so that he did not have to start from scratch every time he turned on his console.

Similarly, as programs became heavier, more RAM storage space was needed to avoid slow rendering or game slowdowns.

In this way, we can see that memory evolved alongside video games in such a way that it covered everything from program storage, the virtual space for it to run and the storage of the games played, turning a simple console or computer into a launching pad for the most impressive adventures.

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Today, gamers can enjoy a good game as long as they have enough memory, which depends on the characteristics and size of the game. Today, we are talking about a base of 32 to 64 GB of RAM for moderate gamers and up to 128 GB for those who take their hobby to the extreme.

Depending on the characteristics of the computer or console, Kingston today has a wide range of memories to provide capacity and performance with Kingston Fury, so that it is possible to find everything from basic DDR3 memories to DDR5, without forgetting the basic storage space that only SSDs can offer, such as Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0.

In the end, it’s up to you to decide what memory capacity you need. Kingston will take care of the rest and will always have an ideal option for your needs.