The History Of 2d Games

Pong 

2d Games Pong was the very first mainstream game ever made it was basically a form of table tennis recreated with two virtual bats and a ball.The object of the game is the same as ping pong hit the ball past your opponents bat. 

Space invaders

Another revolutionary 2d game is space invaders. space invaders was designed by Tomohiro Nishikados and started off as an arcade game, it was first seen in 1978 in Japan and is considered one of the most influential video games of all time. Tomohiro Nishikados baised the enemies in space invaders on his own interpretations of war of the worlds by hg wellsspace invaders consists of the player being the last defence of the earth put inside a robot that is able to shoot down the aliens space ships
the player has 3 shields in front of them to protect them from the enemies bullets
the player must shoot down every enemy on the screen and every time the player shoots down one of the ship the fleet of space crafts speed up. the enemy crafts get drop a row every few seconds so this adds a time limit, when the last space craft is alive it moves very fast and is hard to hit this is made harder because the player can only fire one bullet at a time, although they have unlimited ammo.When you do kill the last spacecraft you are rewarded with a new set of enemies but they start one row down. making the game harder and harder, The player gets a score for every successful shooting of an enemy and players compete for the high score.
sometimes bonus spaceships fly across the top and give the player certaint amount of points if they manage to get it downspace invaders is still at arcades and is still played today showing the power of the gameplay and the fun in this game.
Proving yet again that gameplay is better then graphics

Mario And Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto born November 16, 1952 is considered one of the innovators of 2d games and overall games itself he broke the ground of games by making the first ever saving rpg game legend of zelda meaning that you could go back and play from where you left off this changed how people thought about games meaning that they had to find a suitable place to save and also had to save regularly other wise if they died they had to start from where they last saved. This was a change from most 2d games before because if you died you had to start from the very beginning. This also he his games ideas have made Nintendo what they are today with his non stop innovation Donkey Kong was made in 1981 by Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the very best 2d arcade games you where a Italian Plummer and you had to rescue the princess from the top of the tower whilst Donkey Kong threw barrels at you to stop you, these could easily be dodged by jumping them or skipping them by going up one of the levels Donkey Kong was the very first appearance of Super Mario Bros who would later be used by Miyamoto again but this time in his own game.Super Mario brothers was the first of many Mario games made by Shigeru MiyamotoThis game was the first game to have what is called play control because of the way you could build momentum from running and slide under boxes or slide off the edge of something if you are going to fastThis changed games because of the way you could use your character and people still go back to play this game on the nes because of all of the secrets and bonus levels and sadly because most games do not have that kind of game play anymore  

3d and the start of 3d games

Although wolfenstein 3d is considered one of the first 3d games it actually is lots of 2d content. This is the game that brought the world f games into the 3d generation as this was the father doom