Earlier this year, Newzoo, the games industry researcher, showed in an infographic that in the first quarter of 2012, some 37 million Americans paid to play mobile games – either via purchasing games or by making in-game purchases.
Over the next 12 months it will be interesting to see how much this growing segment will represent of the $78 billion Video Game Industry.
That being said, if you were ever curious about the genesis of your flash-obsessions with Angry Birds, Words with Friends, Trivie and FlickGolf, BuzzFeed just released an awesome article about the beginning of Pong and Atari.
The throw-back images included in this longread are themselves worth the trip over and there are some great cameos scattered throughout that story. But even more interesting is how much impact a simple idea can have in the world. Definitely worth a lunch-hour read sometime!
