Gaming (Freestyle)

Gaming started in the ‘70s

Back when kids were doing hellish things

But for your convenience I’ll skip that bit

Or else this’ll end up taking 50 years

So I apologise to Atari’s friends

Pong was revolutionary, started trends

And for the ‘80s, I’ll start with Pac-Man

It laid foundations, a blast from that past

Tetris sold numbers like maths equations

God, oh, forsaken, it got overtaken, though that’s not ‘til later, Mojang’s population

Consoles aren’t made yet, so we had arcades then

We had Mario Bros, before it went Super

Shame kids Mari-don’t know, two games and then super

Innovative Nintendo, rise of gaming meant dough

They made Super Mario in ‘85

Link came along next year to invade the light

On to the late ‘80s, Sim City was released

Users create places, recently got deceased

The ‘90s were overrun with platformers

Super Mario World’s an example, yuh

And we OGs, remember Sonic’s speed, oh green

But I don’t need, to dwell on it - Need For Speed

The first game for there to ever be police

So you’d better keep a lead, to succeed with ease

In 1993

Fifa hyped elites

It didn’t have a soundtrack until late

‘Til Fifa 98

During that time it got challenged, look

By Konami’s Pes, which is not half as good

In ‘94 PS released their vital

Seven years before Xbox so they beat their rivals

GTA 1, the start of a legacy

Received complaints but, part of what’s meant to be

Then in ‘99 Crazy Taxi was bought and then queried

Was still the development team’s second most popular series

In ‘01, we got the first ever Xbox

Didn’t wait too long before releasing the neXt-box

Xbox 360 came out in ‘05

When I was -2 and didn’t know life

Nintendo tried to compete, they released the GameCube

But then the PS2 ensured it got flamed, dude

I ain’t got the time to mention every console

Was around this time when gaming sped ‘head of control

So let me give a shoutout to Microsoft, keep a level head

And now I’mma just skip straight to the 2010s

The decade of mobile gaming, and Minecraft officially

Released in ‘09 ‘cause I count Beta efficiently

Temple Run, Subway Surfers, Cookie Clicker

Angry Birds, Jetpack Joyride, Fruit Ninja

All these mobile titles that might trigger

Some long lost, nostalgic recognition

Now we’ve reached the present, and Minecraft surpassed Tetris

In the sales charts reaching so high it was blessed, it’s

Crazy that a game can receive such a player base

All of them so loyal and very much gamers, ace

Xbox and PS made their 10th gen of consoles

Let’s appreciate the ride that we’ve had while it’s on hold

No new announcements as I type the words yet

Ready for the album, I’m hyped for what’s next