Mexico has a growing video game development scene and the great moment that gaming is experiencing worldwide lends itself to publishers, developers and creatives from our country to make their projects come true. However, this is not new, since the creation of video games in the country dates back to the 1970s, information that was compiled and shared by a gaming promoter in Mexico.
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Divulgadora shares a database with the more than 800 video games made in Mexico
The developer of video game development Cataxis, compiled, organized and published a database that accounts for the more than 800 video games that have been made in Mexico. In it you can see the years in which Mexican titles were released, starting with the Nesa Pong desktop console, the work of engineer Morris Behar, considered the father of video game development in Mexico. This hardware allowed to play Ping Pong, foosball and squash and was released in 1972.
I compiled a list with more than 800 Mexican video games from 1973 to 2023. ??? This living document will be hosted on the internet so that everyone can explore it. Do not miss it!
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2020 is the year with the most Mexican video games published
Likewise, this database created by Cataxis allows you to manage information by title, genre, developers, publishers, year of release, etc. In the same way, includes a section of statistics and graphs where it can be seen that so far, 2020 is the year in which the most video games of Mexican origin have been published with 96, followed by 2022 with 63 and 2021 with 59.
As for the platforms with the largest number of Mexican video games published, there are Google’s Play Store, Valve’s Steam and Itch.io. On the other hand, the genres with the highest number of registrations for Mexican projects are casual experiences and action games, followed by adventure and puzzles.
Undoubtedly, the work of Cataxis is a very important dissemination act to know and understand the video game development scene in Mexico.
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