Ars Technica has a new article up on The evolution of gaming: computers, consoles, and arcade.
This one’s slightly different in that it takes individual genres and trace their history, screenshots and all.
The genres here are the slightly idiosyncratic Sports / Space Combat / MMORPG / Adventure / Driving / Turn-based strategy / Simulation / RPG / Platform / FPS / Real-time strategy.
As a European, the focus on Apple II and TRS-80 is weird as they hardly existed in these quarters – gaming history was Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and later Amiga / Atari ST (the latter especially in the UK I think).
Somebody needs to write the big global history at some point.