Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Indeed, the company delivered on that promise, but quickly alienated consumers with its lack of backwards-compatibility with Atari 2600 games, incompatibility with the Atari 400/800 computer system which it was based off of, rehashing of 2600 titles with 'updated' versions of the games, inferior pack-in title (Super Breakout) to ColecoVision's pack-in title (Nintendo's arcade hit, Donkey Kong), and poorly-received controllers. Intellivision's Atari 2600 cartridge adapter also allowed Intellivision console

We all know the big companies like Nintendo or Sega. How about Tennis for Two or Spacewar? Video games have became a multimillion dollar media and it all started from one game. The first video game’s history is shrouded in mystery. Some people think it was the 1962 game Spacewar. Others think it was was Willy Higinbotham’s 1958 game Tennis for Two. Would you believe me that it is Tic-Tac-Toe? At the time it was called OXO. In 1952, Alexander Sandy Douglas made OXO using an Electronic Delay Storage

Chelsea Osei Mass Comm Extra Credit #1 Pixels : Donkey Kong On June 2nd, 1981, almost 30 years ago, creator Shigeru Miyamoto, designed a new game that would change gaming as we knew it. Before what we now know as Mario (also known as Jumpman), americans first encountered this duo in 1981 when Jumpmans’ pet was a gorilla named Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong is one of our earliest examples of the genre,platform game. Donkey Kong was the first platform game to feature jumping, introducing a new way to

iPhones IPhone iPhone iPhones! These are well known huge sellers on the platform. I know sellers that literally make a living only selling iphones on ebay. The great aspect of iphones is that they sell for the market price rather than a discount like most items on eBay. The best iPhone to sell are iPhone 4s’ and up. However, some iPhone can sell for insane amounts of cash. For example Used iPhone 6’s Gold versions can sell for $15,000 and the iPhone 6 Silver sell for close to $3,000. Iphones with

Research 1 The Founding Fathers of Video Games There are many discussions about who the founding fathers of video games are, but in my own opinion the founding father of video games is Physicist Willy Higinbotham. Through him the entire video game basis and industry would of never excited without him. The original video game was a game called Tennis For Two. It was made from a orthoscope with a 5 inch display. On the screen there was a electronic line going from one end of the screen to the

Arcade machines: An arcade machine is made up of different components for example (monitor, control panel and even different types of printed circuit boards to control game functions or in some cases they will also have an arcade system board hidden within the cabinet. There are different types of arcade machines upright cabinets, table cabinets and even deluxe cabinets. The first arcade machine was created in 1971 along with the first game created called pong that was released in 1972. The images

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary, 2016 celebrates the 10th anniversary of the release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which launched on GameCube and served as a Wii launch title in 2006. In celebration of this multiple anniversary year, Nintendo has released The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Nintendo, a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company, was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchias. It began as a maker of Japanese playing-cards called “Hanufuda”. By 1979, they developed their first video-game system, “TV-Games,” which launched them into the video-gaming industry. Since then, Nintendo has introduced a wide range of gaming products, such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, GameCube, and several others. The company quickly became renowned for their innovative

Over the last 45 years gaming has changed immensely but where will that take us? In 1975the first game was invented called PONG. “Pong was the first game developed by Atari Inc., by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.” (History, 2017) So with PONG being the first game invented and Call of Duty being the most popular game now a days I thought it was good to see how gaming has changed from 1972 to 2017. With how the whole aspect has changed from a simple tennis sport simulator to a well detail high programed

The Nintendo 3DS XL introduces many new features off of the original design of the DS. The gaming company Nintendo released the original DS in America in November 21st, 2004, The DS grew throughout the years from DS, DS lite, DSi, to DSi XL finally landing us with the 3DS XL released in June 21st, 2012. The Nintendo 3DS added many features, but the ultimately noticeable feature being the 3D option. This excited numerous Nintendo fans because they believed they were obtaining the future. These features