Nintendo Entertainment System

Sony has done a marvelous job over the years with their PlayStation consoles. Whether you are talking about the PS1 or the PS4, Sony always has delivered. Over the consoles history, the PlayStation has seen some of the greatest video games of all-time, and here are ten that you need to play before you die. 10. DRAGON BALL Z: BUDOKAI TENKAICHI 3 3D fighting games are very unique, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 may be the best. With an enormous character roster and gameplay that improved…

were a form of playing cards. The name of the business was “Nintendo Koppai.” The company was very successful. However, in the 1950s, the company became concerned about the long term popularity of playing cards. They made a deal with the Walt Disney Company to use their characters on cards. It was successful, but eventually the business stalled. Today Nintendo is a five billion dollar company. The industry has come a long way since “Nintendo Koppai.” That change has had a large impact on our…

Why everybody should buy a Nintendo 3ds Introduction I am going show you why everybody needs a Nintendo 3ds. I will only be listing the franchises and their games, not other features such as design. Also, I will not be comparing it to its competitors. As you can see, there are many rules to this list. Mario Mario is the best selling game franchise of all time. Also, This platforming game is exclusive to Nintendo consoles. Some Mario games on the 3ds aren’t on the Wii U…

Anime and video games are two subjects that play an important role in both eastern and western popular culture. The ascension of both anime and video games into popular culture originated first in Japan, and eventually their influence spread across the globe. I’ve been engrossed in both subjects since I was young, and I believe my appreciation for both was no coincidence. Anime and video games, after all, have always felt similar to me, but why is that? To answer that question, I will consider…

Video Games have always been a part of my life. When I was a child, my mom and dad bought a PS2 so my mom could exersize. She would play Dance Dance Revolution to move around, and a few other games for entertainment. Then, when I was about 5, a family at our church gave us a Wii for Christmas. It included 4 remotes and a few games. I still play these games all the time. My dad told me when he was younger, he and his family got an Atari 2600 for Christmas. He would play Yars Revenge all the time.…

The years of the 1970’s is famous for the groovy bell-bottoms, the rise of disco and how could anyone forget, the invention of video games. However, it wasn’t all fun and games. It was an era of economic struggle and cultural change. Many American groups fought for social and political rights, one being a combat for women rights. Women are being objectified by men and politics. They did not have the right to vote, to hold public office, to have reproductive rights, to work or to have fair wages,…

games the more we see there is controversy around it, but that’s not the main transformation this paper will be focusing on. The transformation I see the most would be between the Nintendo 64 to the PlayStation 4 consoles. The Nintendo 64 was a stepping stone for modern day gaming such as the PlayStation 4. The Nintendo 64 controller was very unique at the time. The controller itself was shaped like an M with the middle part of the M being longer than the other two parts. The controller had a 4…

I have found a new interest in Nintendo in their new console coming out in march of this year known as the Nintendo switch. The new consoles sells itself as a fun, modern and powerful console that can also be taken on the go. I have always had somewhat of an interested in Nintendo, owning a smaller, handheld device known as the Nintendo DS for most of my life. When I originally owned that small console I played non-Nintendo games that I thought were more enjoyable at the time. But now I have…

industry is also very unstable. Names like Atari to Nintendo to Sega to Sony to Microsoft are either extremely known or completely unknown depending to which generation is being spoken of. In the first five years of the 80s or better yet what was known as the golden age of video games, the market was dominated by Atari, Sega, Nintendo, Mattel, and Coleco then were dethroned by NES after the 1984 video game industry crash. The battle between Sega and Nintendo continued well into the 1998, when…

Nintendo was founded in 1889 by a Japanese man known as Fusajiro Yamauchi. Nintendo’s headquarters is located in Kyoto, Japan. Before Nintendo created video games and video game consoles, Nintendo manufactured and patented some of the earliest trading card games. Nintendo did not actually begin making video games until 1977 with the release of their Color TV Game 6 video game system. This was a revolutionary console due to the fact that it…