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    gaming systems. You can be standing, sitting down, using controllers, or not using any controllers at all. There are at least many different types of movement motions involved in both types of electronics made by different companies. The Kinect may have more free motion, but the Wii seems more enjoyable for families to use and have fun. The Nintendo Entertainment System was introduced in 1985 which became an instant hit, selling over sixty million units. In 2006, Nintendo introduced

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    and a Japanese company by the name of Nintendo decided it wanted to enter the market. Nintendo’s Family Computer, or Famicom, was doing well in Japan and Nintendo wanted to try and find success in North America. This proved to be difficult because America was still wary on the idea of game consoles after the crash. To try and avoid the skepticism that came with items labeled as a game console, Nintendo rebranded the Famicom as the Nintendo Entertainment System and marketed it as a toy. Believe it

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    The birth of Nintendo dates back over 100 years ago and originally made only Japanese playing cards. This paper will explore how Nintendo started out as a playing card company and became one of the biggest gaming corporations that are alive today. It will also explore the success and failures of the company and how it achieved the status it has today. We will discuss the technology of gaming and how it evolved over time. Nintendo: How it changed our world The life of Nintendo dates back to

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    Although the first video games appeared in the 1950s,[1] they were played on massive computers connected to vector displays, not analog televisions. Ralph H. Baer conceived the idea of a home video game in 1951. In the late 1960s while working for Sanders Associates he created a series of video game console designs. One of these designs, which gained the nickname of the "Brown Box", featured changeable game modes and was demonstrated to several TV manufactures ultimately leading to an agreement between

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    This essay will talk about how Nintendo is currently the best company in the video game race. It will discuss all of Nintendo’s innovations to the video gaming industry as a whole and how without Nintendo, the video game industry would be drastically different. An example of an event that would have altered the video game industry without Nintendo would be the Video Game Crash of 1983, where video games were being reproduced at a rate where all copies couldn’t be sold and how all of the games at

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    ahead. Big giant’s companies as Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft are constantly competing and technology and innovation are vital to keep pace with this demanding and challenging field. This essay will discuss two companies within the video games industry, Nintendo and Sony, trying to define their international strategies and their procedures in entering markets abroad, crossing the national borders and consolidating a strong multinational presence. The choice of Nintendo and Sony is due to different reasons

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    The video game console is a gaming system to play video games on the television invented by Ralph Baer and it was invented because Ralph wanted to make his dream come true for the first time. Ralph made models to test his invention and make a good console that was worth paying for. Although it took some time to build, he never gave up and kept on trying if he didn’t get it right the first time. He was a very good man and received many awards for his accomplishments. His story was that he was while

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    Introduction The product I have chosen to study is the Nintendo DS. This product is one of Nintendo’s most recently released games consoles. I will explain what the Nintendo DS does. It is a handheld games console that consists of a book like structure. It has a small LCD screen on each side. One is a touch screen and the other is a viewing screen. The console also incorporates a microphone and has Wi-Fi capabilities. This allows the user to operate the game by using a small stylus on the touch

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    Nintendo is a wonderful company, although there is much more to Nintendo than just a video game company. The company has been around for a while, and there’s proof that shows: over multiple years, Nintendo has made many games and many consoles. Nowadays, Nintendo consoles have been tossed aside, forgotten as people play on their Xboxes and Playstations, yet Nintendo still works to make consoles for people’s entertainment. Nintendo tries to make game consoles that’ll please everyone, although that

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    first home video game system, named Odyssey, is released by Magnavox. This main games featured on this system were a light gun game and a tennis game. During the same time, a game by the name of Pong is a success in the public. It is because people wanted to play Pong in the comfort of their own homes, that they bought Odyssey. The system only sold around 100,000 units since Magnavox only sold the game system from their own stores, making consumers believe that the game system would only work on

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