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Xbox/Console Technology Advancements Consoles and related games have advanced quite far in the past 30 years. Graphics, FPS, and engines for the actual games have been updated to the point that the things happening on a screen look very close to what it would be in real life. But, the gaming community has advanced console 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…

Analysis Social Appeal of Rhetoric in Advertisements Nintendo and Sega marketing had adapted throughout the 80s and 90s by taking different approaches for several of their commercials and marketing. Nintendo’s first console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)attempted to market itself towards families, teens, and children. Advertisers for each brand would use rhetoric to appeal to each demographic based upon socially accepted trends In a Nintendo advertisement page, the targeted audience…

Why have video games become a big success? Back in the early 1900s, people didn’t have video games, they had simple games such as checker and chess. These two games are still widely played, but when computers and televisions started becoming a normal necessity, virtual games became more apparent. The concept of video games started with the first computer game. This game was a version of tic-tac-toe, created in 1952 by A.S. Douglas, a Cambridge university doctoral student (Hile) This simple, but…

Getting into video games can be a daunting task if you're unfamiliar with it, especially with all the choices these days. Choosing what games to play and whether you’re going to use a PC or console. If you decide to buy a PC, what operating system you’ll use, and what console to buy if you decide to go down that route. There are also many differences in how the game is controlled, the prices of games, the price of the system, quality, and more. The controls are very different whether using a…

2DS, the Nintendo DS is currently the best selling handheld console, and the second best selling video game console of all time. Yet despite its high sales figures, ten years after the release of the Nintendo DS to the wider mainstream market, little research has been done about the effects of the Nintendo DS’s technology on the experience of video game players, much less about the role of the Nintendo DS in the American society. Video games as objects of study, are not new. There have been…

Study suggests an hour of video games a day makes kids better adjusted. A popular media report in Time Free Press newspaper written by Casey Phillips. Discussed the topic of video games. Phillips referred back to an article written by Dr. Andrew Przybylski, published in Pediatrics. This article goes to discuss how there were 4,900 British adolescents that were asked, “how often they played video games” (Phillips reported). This study was based on self-reports from the 4,900 participants. The…

In Bernstein 's article "Gaming the Console", she argues that it is okay for teens to play video games; she even goes on to say that playing video games can be beneficial for teenagers. However, she informs her audience that there are certain aspects of gaming that teens should be wary of: this includes prioritizing game time over school work and playing with inherent personality issues. Bernstein develops this thesis successfully by integrating visual and verbal texts effectively; each of the…

Video Games changed the World Too this day, I hear my dad tell me stories about how he used to play Pong all of the time as a kid. Now, imagining playing that game blows my mind. Many people do not know what the actual definition of video gaming is. Video gaming is an electronic game played by means of images on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action. The video game world today has drastically evolved from what it used to be. Games have evolved from little balls that went up and down,…

the American nuclear physicist William Higinbotham introduced the first two-person electronic game Tennis for Two during a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house demonstration (BNL.org). Tennis for Two consisted of a two-dimensional side view of a tennis court that was projected onto an oscilloscope screen which was similar to a black and white television. Participants of this revolutionary electronic game served and volleyed an electronic tennis ball utilizing controllers with buttons and…

“ The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.” These words are from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created many popular icons in the gaming world. This man has been referred to as “ the father of modern video games ,” but he doesn’t receive a higher salary than any other employees at Nintendo on his own accord . Despite growing up about two decades before video games existed, Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most well known people in the…