Friday, July 11, 2008
The Reason For Wii's Success
...When video games first began, there was this huge explosion of excitement. Everyone was interested and wanted to see "the next best thing." There was no avoiding the presence of this interactive medium. You'd walk into your local restaurant, only to find huge line-ups for that next game of Donkey Kong, or Pac-Man. Video games were the new kids on the block. They were new, fresh, fun and exciting. In the early to mid 1980's, the video game industry was experiencing a crash. Was it the beginning of the end? As it turns out, fortunately that was not the case.
A newcomer in the industry, Nintendo, was responsible for releasing the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), that essentially single-handily revived the entire industry. Although Nintendo is over a century old, video games in particular were a new venture for them, so there was a lot of skepticism. That skepticism was quickly silenced once they released their first game console, with the globally recognized game mascot, Super mario brothers. This one game alone was responsible for putting the industry back on the map. One of the reasons for the game's huge success is not solely catered to the characters cute personality, but largely due to the fact that Super mario brothers, in and of itself, was a revolutionary game. There was nothing like it at the time. It was a whole new wave on interactivity, and thus a new generation of gamers were born. Back in the early days, there's was one particular element that all games had in common: Ease of use.
Games were fairly easy to pick-up and play, and as a result, th...more
The Top 10 Greatest Classic Arcade Games of All Time
...iance to the world of gaming.
No. 6) Outrun- The original car game. There's been car games before and since. But this one is king. It has yet to be duplicated.
No. 5) Road Blasters- What's better than a driving game? A driving game where you can shoot cars.
No. 4) Track and Field- The first ever button masher. Nearly lost an index finger to this one.
No. 3) Gauntlet- The cabinet was HUGE!! First game I ever saw where 4 pl...more
New Super mario Bros. Review
... everything in the game and take part in all of the challenges.
mario has plenty of moves this time round. He will still run, jump and stomp but there are a few more moves that give him more flexibility, and he'll need it to negotiate his way through some of the more deadly platform elements and enemies that he will encounter. A butt bounce will allow him to smash the blocks he's standing on. He can grow large enough to take up the entire screen, which allows him to smash tons of blocks and take care of smaller enemies by trampling them. A mini-mushroom will make mario tiny and allow him to enter into small places. It will also let him walk over water. A wall bounce lets him scale walls to reach new heights or can be used if he falls into a pit. Platforms will twist, bend, warp, shrink, expand, hover, fall, elevate and destruct. I don't think the developers left anything out. Even the ground will undulate, causing mario to experience a rippling effect not unlike a ship on a stormy sea. Despite all these new elements and moves, the game doesn't take full advantage of the DS's unique control system - not the touch screen control system or even the dual screen for that matter. The bottom screen is basically used just to display your progress in each level. The touch feature is used almost exclusively to access your power-ups. In other words, there's nothing that you would really miss, control-wise, if this game were released on the GBA. However, the graphics are what really matters and this g...more
Sonic VS mario VS Crash Bandicoot
...rn a bright golden-yellow. This gave him the ability to fly, become invincible and run insanly fast. Sonic and mario from then on were heavy competition.
After the launch of the Sony Playstation, a developer team named Naughty Dog wanted to create a character that was heroic, yet goofy. They made just the thing. Crash Bandicoot. A hit worldwide, and became a heavy competior to mario quite a bit more than Sonic. (EX: mario Kart 64, CTR: Crash Team Racing and Sonic R)
Crash Bandicoot has a lot of features and abilities too (From Crash Bandicoot Warpe...more
