A video game character is the main character (or side story characters) from a video game. A good example would be Mario or Pac-Man. For a very long time, characters have been the stars of video games. Most people from movies or books become video game characters.
History and creation[]
Video games were first created in the 1950s when Tennis for Two was created. Later on, Atari released the game Pong becoming a very famous video game. Later on, video games began using stories and characters such as Pac-Man released in 1980. As the years went by, many video games not known to have characters released other games revealing the character, such as Dig Dug
. Classic games don't use video game characters as much as today's video games. Today, video games are releasing as a series using one character throughout the entire series, such as Grand Theft Auto using Niko throughout the games.
Pac-Man
Classical video game characters[]
One very popular video game character from the 1980s was Pac-Man. Pac-Man appeared everywhere in the United States. Pac-Man instantly became popular, however, once the game Frogger was released, the game character Frogger
had become more popular. There was a huge conflict and later Pac-Man triumphed, however, both series continue to release more and more video games using the same character. Frogger is still very popular but Pac-Man is more popular for his shape. He is also known as "The Dot-Eater".
Frogger