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The video game industry reached a market value of approximately $198.5 billion in 2021.
China leads in this market with revenues of more than 46 billion dollars from the sale and distribution of articles gaming.
As of July 2022, the TikTok platform has a potential reach of 1,023 million users.
The video game industry is one of the oldest in the world, which is why it is normal that many brands are venturing into this sector. It is known that Elon Musk is one of the most outstanding figures in the technology industry, which is why from the beginning he created Blastar, which is a video game that he programmed when he was a teenager.
Without a doubt, this year has been a great year for the video game industry, which reached a market value in 2021 of approximately 198.5 billion US dollars and, as reflected a Mordor Intelligence reportit is expected that by 2027 this will increase to about 141.6 million.
Like all industries, this one also has its leading markets; According to a study by Spanish Video Game Development, China leads the world market, with revenue in 2021 of more than 46 billion US dollars. for the sale of games, consoles and other related components.
That same study reveals that other countries such as Japan and South Korea occupy the third and fourth position in the world ranking. Between the two of them they had an estimated income of more than 29 thousand 500 million dollars.
So you can play Blastar
The video game that came about while Musk was studying at the University of Pennsylvania, he and a friend opened a successful nightclub in his rented house. Musk then earned degrees in physics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and went on to develop a video game that anyone can play.
In that sense, when Musk was 12 years old, he developed the source code for a video game called Blastar. The objective of the game was to blow up as many alien cargo ships as possible with the five available ships and the player had to avoid “deadly hydrogen bombs” and cosmic radiation devices. It was definitely a game inspired by the classic game Space Invaders released in 1978.
The code was published in PC and Office Technology in 1984, and Musk received $500 for his efforts, but it never came to light. Or well, not until 2015.
Likewise, Ashlee Vance, a technology reporter for Bloomberg, published a book on Elon Musk, which included an image of his code for the game in question. Google software engineer Tomas Lloret saw this and turned it into a video game that anyone with an internet connection can play.
And this is how it is becoming more and more noticeable that the new generations are faithful users of social networks and technological platforms, which is why they are implementing new formats to include everything that users are looking for in their interfaces.
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