Tech of Gaming

Picture trying to play your favorite online game with friends, but every time you move your character, there’s a three-second delay before anything happens. Or imagine if every time someone’s internet hiccupped, the entire game crashed for everyone. These nightmares.

Imagine spending hours exploring a massive game world, collecting treasures, and building up your character—only to lose everything when you turn off your console. For early gamers, this nightmare was reality. The invention of save systems, particularly memory cards, transformed.

Imagine playing your favorite video game where characters look like flat cardboard cutouts moving around a painted backdrop. That’s essentially what gaming was like before 3D graphics cards came along. The transformation from these simple 2D “sprites” to the realistic.