Friday, January 20, 2023

The Nintendo Switch almost has a library of games from all Nintendo home Consoles... almost



    The Nintendo Switch was released in March of 2017 and single-handedly saved Nintendo from the disaster that was the Wii U. Since the release of the Switch, it has gotten a good amount of Wii U games ported to its library of games. This makes sense because the Wii U had some great games, but because the console itself wasn't that great not very many people got to experience these games. Porting these games to the Switch caused them to basically be new games to a lot of people. These Wii U games ported to the Switch were deluxe versions of the game, sometimes getting new content added to their Switch versions (like Super Mario 3D World getting Bowser's Fury). Nintendo didn't stop with Wii U games though.

Sunday, January 15, 2023

How Sega lost the Console Wars

     "S-E-G-A!", Sega was a once great gaming giant sitting across from Nintendo with a huge ego. Sega used to be a video game developer/ publisher and console manufacturer. Sega is most famous for the Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog. How did Sega go from making a video game console that caused the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) to just a decent video game developer/ publisher, let's find out!

The Rise and Fall of Atari



    Atari Inc. was an American video game and computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari is often credited with bringing arcade games to the home market. Bushnell and Dabney wanted to create coin-operated games, so they joined Nutting Associates to manufacture their products. Bushnell and Dabney created an arcade game called Computer Space, but this game did not do very well. After the failure of their space-themed arcade game, Bushnell and Dabney decided to create a separate venture called Syzygy Game Company. They both provide an initial $250 USD as starting funds. They made sure that Nutting would put a "Syzygy Engineering" label on each of the duo's games to reflect their work on the products.

Monday, November 2, 2020

The Evolution of Computers

    Computers or better known as devices that helped aid computation have been used for thousands of years, mostly using one-to-one correspondence. One-to-one correspondence meaning a set paired with another set where each element in one of the sets is paired with exactly one element from the other set. These computers came to be known as counting devices. These devices were really only used to help you count and keep records and not much more. The earliest counting device dated back to the Upper Palaeolithic or the Old Stone Age.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Super Mario 35th Anniversary!

Back in September, Nintendo released a direct based around the 35th anniversary of Super Mario. This was similar to 10 years ago when Nintendo celebrated the 25th anniversary of Super Mario. I was 9 years old and my older brother got the Mario 25th anniversary dsi xl. And now 10 years later, another big milestone for Nintendo and their biggest game franchise, Super Mario.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Why I liked the Legend of Korra:

A lot of people my age or around my age watched many awesome and memorable cartoons as a kid. One of those shows being Avatar: The Last Airbender. I also watched this show as a kid and it was a pretty good show. I wasn’t an insane fan of the show, but for what it was worth, I thought it was a pretty good show. Flash forward a few years when the show was taken off of Netflix. I didn’t really think about the show much after that until a live-action movie was released. M Night Shyamalan who was the director of that movie did everything wrong.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Hudson Soft. and the Nintendo Japanese pc games

In the summer of 1983, in Japan, the Nintendo Family Computer known to many as the Famicom, was at the top when it came to the video game market and the most popular game was Super Mario Bros. It was no surprise, the Japanese market loved video games and Nintendo was a big name in gaming. As Atari took over the North American video games market, Nintendo reigned supreme in Japan.