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A lot of things happened in 1977- The Atari 2600 gaming system was released, Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th U.S president, and NASA launched Voyager 1. But something else happened, a huge breakthrough for the marine science world. An expedition to the Galápagos Rift revealed hydrothermal vents, and along with it new and unknown creatures that somehow has survived in very harsh conditions. Hydrothermal vents are most commonly found along mid-oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic…

One of the most significant pieces of evidence that supports the author’s perspective in the written biography written by Isaacson is “Jobs convinced Wozniak to build and sell printed circuit boards. “Jobs worked out a plan to pay a guy he knew at Atari to draw the circuit boards and then print up fifty or so” (Jackson 215). This source makes it clear that Jobs clearly was the leader in this team of two, making him more known out to the public. However, Wozniak also played a big role in the…

billion dollars. This 127-year-old company strives to create new and innovative Ideas, coining the phrase, “Nintendo innovates, others imitate.” Nintendo re-created the gaming industry after the video game crash of 1985. They destroyed companies like Atari and Sega who had also tried to dominate the…

systems to the point where they can hardly be advanced anymore. This has led to people not buying the newest consoles because nothing dramatic has happened except for slightly better graphics. ` Gaming consoles have been around for some time. The Atari, Coleco vision, GameCube, and the Wii are some of the more bought and recognized consoles. The graphics, processors, and design of these have changed quite drastically over…

Technology constantly changes itself and the way we interact with the world and our own selves. One achievement of technology that has always had an impact on people is video games. Video games can provide entertainment, education, and can bring people together. Some critics of games claim that they are violent and meaningless, but in fact, games are a benefit to society. A common misconception is that video games are a recent invention, but the truth is they have been around for almost seventy…

Guggenheim Partners, Mandalay Entertainment and Mosaic Media Investment Partners in 2012. Number Three: Their Parks Are Featured in ‘Roller Coaster Tycoon’ Six Flags has been working Atari for years letting players use their attractions in their game play. However, they took it a step further in the past year, allowing Atari to use actual park schematics, the traffic patterns of guests and better insight into the company’s most popular rides. Roller Coaster Tycoon World was supposed to be…

aware that imagination was the path to invention and solution finding. I always have been good in finding solutions and understanding why and how things and machines worked. That is what pushed me to learn to program when I was 12 years old on my old Atari computer, and…

the American video game industry collapsed and many industry leaders got out of the business. Many feel that market oversaturation and poor game development caused the collapse. The burial of thousands of game cartridges in a New Mexico landfill by Atari, as it emptied out its warehouses, remains one of the most well known incidents that happened during the collapse. It seemed that Americans no longer cared for video games. After the collapse most American home video game systems, consisted of…

Paraphrased research Nintendo actually listens to customer complaints. Many of their systems produced are made from trial and error. In away they make more of their money testing us rather than give the final product because there is no final product. They test us and they continue to test us and when they hear there is some kind of flaw they work to improve the system. The Wii for example had choppy motion control on their first games. Their solution? Put a Gyroscope in each new control system…

If Nintendo made Smartphones When Nintendo announced their intent to move into smartphone gaming earlier this year, the internet was abuzz with gamers pontificating on their pros and cons of the company's decision to branch out beyond their own home consoles for the first time. Many saw the move as minor sacrilege, whilst others were more optimistic about the concept of playing more convenient, pick-up-and-play Zelda and Mario games on the tube. What nobody seemed to be doing, however, was…