In Japan, shortly after the introduction of Nintendo's Famicom (Japan's version of the NES), the electronics giant NEC entered into the videogame market with the introduction of their "next generation" system, known as the PC Engine (PCE). The PCE boasted a 16-bit graphics chip capable of displaying up to 256 colors on screen at once, at a number of resolutions. Although its CPU wasn't much more powerful that of the NES, its spectacular graphics chip and six-channel sound bettered the Famicom in every way. It utilized a sleek new card format (PCE games are either HuCards or Turbochips) to hold its software, rather than bulky cartridges. It was also the first console to boast a CD-ROM drive, for full orchestral soundtracks and even (gasp!) full motion video. The PC Engine was immensely popular in Japan, outselling the Famicom by a significant margin.
In 1989, two years after its Japanese introduction, NEC announced plans to bring the PC Engine overseas, to the booming videogame market of the U.S. With a huge library of Japanese software, it seemed to many as though the system couldn't possibly fail.
At the time, the NES was the #1 system in the US. Games were no longer being made for Atari's 7800, and despite the popularity of the Sega Master System in Europe, it failed to capture the hearts of the U.S. gaming public. Arcade and computer games began to set new standards in visual and aural excellence, making the NES seem primitive in comparison. Although MMC (memory mapper) chips allowed the NES to do some pretty spectacular things, the game-buying public was hungry for a new system.
Shortly after NEC stated its intention to bring the PC Engine to the U.S., Sega announced that its Mega Drive system (released in Japan a year after the PC Engine) would also be coming to the U.S. as the Sega Genesis. The Mega Drive was slow to catch on in Japan, as the installed user base of PC Engine was so large. In fact, the Mega Drive was spectacularly unpopular with our Japanese friends. Although the Mega Drive boasted superior graphics and sound, the absence of a CD-ROM drive was a definite minus in most gamers' minds. Once you've played a CD-ROM game, cartridge games just don't seem as good. At the time, the Genesis didn't seem like much of a threat to the assured success of the TurboGrafx-16 (NEC's American name for the PC Engine).
Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64, created by the Nintendo corporation, was one of the most influential on the gaming industry and the gaming community. The release of Super Mario 64 had a huge impact on the gaming world. It changed how the gaming industry and community viewed video games.
If you gamers have ever played the Nintendo Entertainment System or the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, then you know that games used to be 8-bit and 16-bit. This means that games used to be very poor in graphics. They didn’t have the capacity for many detailed designs.
...nsoles, gaming hardware, and the uses of video game that were conceived in the 1970s. These innovative concepts have allowed the video game industry to improve to where it is today. The design of the gaming consoles from the 1970s have lead to the sleek, lightweight, video game consoles of today that act as home entertainment systems. The way computer hardware was first used in video game consoles from the ‘70s has paved the way for the small, powerful components we have today that allow better graphics, more interaction, and more complex controllers. Video games have been used for health treatment, education, and training all around the world thanks to the branching out of its uses in the 1970s. These events in video game history has dramatically shaped the way our world is today. A world where we can be ordinary people by day and orc slaying sorcerers by night.
In the console-gaming world people know Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft may be the largest and richest software company in the world, but it’s unknown when it comes to console gaming. Microsoft is counting on the Xbox to change that perception. Gamers may not be willing to take a chance with the Microsoft Xbox, even if it is far superior to any console ever made. Nintendo Gamecube is nothing if charismatic. Nintendo’s new machine is half the size of any other console and looks like a toy with its brightly colored plastic shell and handle. It’s destined to be home of such popular games as Mario, Donkey Kong, Pikachu, and Kirby. Nintendo Gamecube seems mismatched as it goes up against the Microsoft Xbox and the Sony Playstation 2 (a multimedia mayhem that Sony says it’s supposed to be “The Future Of Entertainment”). All this makes you think; what makes Nintendo believe it can possibly go up against the ultra-sophisticated Xbox.
As a result of the increasing demand on Wii, Nintendo’s management decided to make W...
For instance, between 1994 and 2002 there were no new Metroid games, despite the popularity of that franchise. The benefit of such a strategy is that when Metroid Prime was released in 2002, it received extraordinary reviews and sold over a million units. The downside to this approach is obvious. Nintendo effectively surrendered the revenue (almost certainly more than $100 million) that could have been milked from the franchise throughout the latter half of the 1990s.
At first glance the game didn’t look as appealing to its audience, but over time people wanted more games. Arcades began to lose their fun with at-home-consoles taking their place. Myamoto went from making Pac Man looking games to 3D games. Two of his most famous franchises that were made in 3D are The Ledged of Zelda, and Super Mario. While most adored the Mario franchise, the legend of Zelda (A.K.A LOZ) was beginning to shine. LOZ’s franchise made 15+ games, while Mario beamed with over 50+ games. After a while of LOZ and Mario, Star Fox was introduced as well as many other types of games like Super Smash Bros., Donkey Kong, Kirby, Mario kart, and even Halo. Nintendo grew with Myamoto on board, but they had no idea what was in store for
Video games, specifically home consoles, came to the US on October 18th 1985. The NES. Most games around that time were all bright and cheerful looking games such as Mario, Kirby, Legend Of Zelda, and Pokemon a few years later on the Gameboy. But as other game developers appeared, new types of games were made. The shooter genre and fighting genre of games came mostly on the Xbox and PS systems with a couple exceptions being on a Nintendo console(Doom, Goldeneye, Smash bros). Now shooter games
Yamauchi had the idea to make a small game from calculators, as they were becoming very popular, not to mention cheap. Similar inventions would later be known as handhelds. Uemura made the Game and Watch from this idea. It pretty much bombed in America. They tried to market it as a toy, which made many people not want to buy it.
Nintendo worked hard to make the first consoles that helped them get a jump start in success, but unfortunately it had a downfall that almost crushed their company’s reputation. In 1980, one of Nintendo’s skilled inventors Gunpei Yokoi, saw a man playing with his calculator, which gave him an idea, a small game that runs on batteries (Ryan 10-11). The Game & Watch was that game and it was released in 1980 which allowed the player to watch a ball and keeping it airborne with buttons (Ryan 10-11). Later on, Nintendo made TV consoles. In 1983, the Nintendo Entertainment System or the NES was released and games like “Super Mario” and Legend of Zelda” became pop...
Owning a gaming computer is one of the best investments a person can make in their life. Having a gaming computer can greatly influence one’s entertainment ranges and personal hobbies. Every gamer or anyone who occasionally games should have a gaming computer instead of a gaming console. A gaming console only provides people with basic programs and simple user interface while a gaming computer can be used for any needs one need. A gaming computer is one’s own cable box but better. Having a gaming computer you can have it fully customized to fit whatever theme you would like it to fit, can run many programs and other applications faster than a console, and can be loaded with a plethora of multiple useful programs one can use.
Personal computers experienced an explosive growth going from being a toy for electronics hobbyists to a full-fledged industry. The video game industry also reached a new point of popularity, becoming an major industry by itself in 1982. In the beginning of the 1980's Nintendo tested the handheld market by releasing their new system the game & watch. “Nintendo began selling the "GAME & WATCH" product line in Japan” (1) and it instantly became an success. The system's were “...the first portable LCD video games with a microprocessor.” (1) Each Game & Watch was able to play only one game due to its LCD display being pre printed with an overlay but the “game & watch games were created to make use of cheap LCD screens, a re purposing of elderly technology that were described as: ‘Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology,” (8) the G&M went on to sell over 43 million units worldwide. In the 1983s caused by a variety of factors, the entire video game industry crashed for America. During this time however Nintendo was tired of creating ports for other systems, deciding to branch into the realm of console development. “Having achieved success with the Color TV Game 6 and 15 systems, Nintendo’s CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi wanted to design a more serious home computer disguised as a toy, one to appeal to the entire family: a family computer; or ‘Famicom’.” (7) The Famicom also known as the Nintendo Family computer or as
Prior to the revolution in technology that was microprocessors, making a computer was a large task for any manufacturer. Computers used to be built solely on discrete, or individual, transistors soldered together. Microprocessors act as the brain of a computer, doing all mathematics. Depending on how powerful the machine was intended to be, this could take weeks or even months to produce with individual components. This laborious task put the cost of a computer beyond the reach of any regular person. Computers before lithographic technology were massive and were mostly used in lab scenarios (Brain 1).
This machine could do math, display graphics at the drop of a dime, and play two dimensional games (whic was all that was around back then). This wasn't something that you normally saw. This was something that seemed to come straight out of a science fiction film. At least that was what I thought.
In 1947 Howard Aiken, an engineer, predicted six computers would satisfy the computing needs of the U.S. By the year 1955, 244 computer systems were in use and by 1984 U.S. businesses and individuals purchased over two million personal computers. By 1994, shipments of over 47 million personal computers were made worldwide. The use of personal computers has increased rapidly over the past half-century and therefore the need for new hardware and software will keep the need for computer engineers to continue producing new products. The first position for a person becoming a computer Engineer is a Junior Computer Engineer.