Bosses in the 20th Century 



My topic for this stream of posts is video game bosses,  in which I'll discuss the lore, history, and game play involved in the workings of some of the best (or worse) bosses. For my first post, I thought the best topic for boss bosses is to go back, back to the 20th century where it all began. The first ever video game was invented in 1958 and it resembled the famous game Pong which came out around twelve years later. But the first video game with a final enemy or Boss was in a 1975 Role-Playing Game (RPG) called dnd which also was one of the first dungeon-crawler games.


The game featured a dragon guarding an orb, which the player must defeat in order to succeed. This tactic paved the way as a standard in many video games to come, including a famous game in 1987 called Punch Out!!! In the game, your character boxes his way to the top to battle the one and only, Mike Tyson. I enjoy the stories my dad told me about how he played the game during his college days, learning the pattern, not being able to google the answers due to the time. Mike Tyson by some is regarded as one of the best bosses in the history of bosses due to difficulty and the lovely feeling of defeating him.


One of the most popular companies that features many famous bosses is Nintendo. From Bowser, the king of the koopas, to Ganondorf, the evil sorcerer against Hyrule. The company has surely made it's mark on the history of gaming in general as being one longest running companies to date. Nintendo came out to the video game genre in 1974, making it the oldest company compared to other big companies like PlayStation and Microsoft.

As time progressed, video games got more beautiful, more regulated, and even more challenging. But where would the games of today be without the inspiring games of the past. These video games that some grew up with which paved the way for the next generation certainty deserves respect and recognition.