Responding to the online article of Culture Quake we see the issue of violence in videogames coming up. Being a very sensitive and controversial issue, violence in videogames has been spoken of with much concern by adults everywhere. Even the former president, Bill Clinton, stated his concern with this modern day phenomenon shortly after the ( Read more... )

The online game industry has come a long way since its first implementation into the videogame market. Commenting on the Bartle article, it is interesting to look at how such a conception, the online game, was merely a spec on the radar. He states about how this one game will be interesting to look at in a multi-player format and in turn “ ( Read more... )

I was researching for and writing my final paper this weekend for class and I dug up a little history on my topic. My topic is the Super Mario Bros. Trilogy for the Nintendo Entertainment System. While doing some research I realized how much the games had changed throughout the series. It is probably fair to say that most people who play(ed) ( Read more... )

As Sega began its birth into the videogame industry, it approached the scene a different way. Sega did not just start out making games on its own system and then made it big to start out with. Sega began making games for Atari and Colecovision, building a name foundation for itself. I see this as an advantage for Sega because the risk is less for a ( Read more... )

We have entered an era in videogames that is becoming harder and harder for me to follow. Everything we have discussed since the crash of videogames in 1983-4 is very unfamiliar with me. Going into EPYX and Lucasfilms and such, just means nothing to me. I am not saying this just to fill up space. I think that this represents a genre of videogames, ( Read more... )

The laserdisc videogame medium, which emerged during my youth, for some reason, does not recall memories of any. However, studying in class this step in the history of videogames, it appears as an amazing concept that, in my opinion, should have caught on more. I cannot think of anyone owning one of these machines or games. The only image that ( Read more... )

I played Halo on Xbox for the first time over the weekend. I don’t play a lot of videogames just because they don’t interest me as much as other things. So I went over to my friend’s place for a while and we played Halo online. Two Xboxes, one in two different rooms. We played on teams of two in a combat mode. It was similar to a James Bond game I’ ( Read more... )

All the videogame companies appeared to have one very common thing going for them: they all designed games that were similar to other ones. It was a market designed around money and greed. One company would make a game and another company was right behind them with a knock off that was going to make them huge amounts of money. That’s the ( Read more... )

The Pac Man craze, looking back in retrospect, seems as if it would be nothing more than another game that would have mild success in the market. I recall when I played the game when I was little how hard it was for me to put it down. Comparing the game to the type of entertainment we have now on the modern console systems, we probably wouldn’t ( Read more... )

Commenting on the Chapter 1 reading from “Trigger Happy” it becomes more prevalent that videogames have come a long way from the very beginning. Some people will say, “Well of course they have, that’s easy to notice.” But in retrospect, sometimes we don’t exactly notice how far they have come along. As videogames move along and progress ( Read more... )