Annotated Bibliography For Professional Skills Report By Eamonn Hannon

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Bibliography for Professional Skills Report by Eamonn Hannon
1. Harris, B. (2014). Console Wars: Sega Vs Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation. London: Atlantic Books.

This book is a general history of the 'console war' between Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System console and Sega's Genesis/Mega Drive console, showing the viewpoint of various Nintendo and Sega employees, along with others involved in the game industry at the time. The book contains a lot of technical information and showed very clearly how the technology used in video games changed during the period, mainly graphical and artificial technology related. In particular, chapter two 'R & D' and especially chapter 5, 'The History of NOA' were very useful for

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