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In October 1958 a man named Willy Hinginbotham invented a rather dull game on a thing called an oscilloscope it was a game of tennis for two players, so in October 1958 video games had been born. It was a huge step for the entertainment industry, which would make them millions, if not billions in years to come.
In the 1970ís the Nintendo came to life with the Nintendo ëgame ëní watchí which enabled people to play games like ëDonkey Kongí in the palm of their hands.
Also in the 70ís was a coin-operated machine where you had to ìavoid missing a ball in order to get a high scoreî so the video game industry got a boost in sales because of the coin-op machine.
The next giant leap for video games was in June 1986, when Sega revealed themselves with the Sega master system, it wasnít to be as good as the forthcoming NES in 1983 which has great graphics good controllers and great sound. Super Mario brothers were to show just how good the Nes would be.
The Game Boy, which was launched in December 1989, which was rather large and bulky but it was to become the most successful games console ever! With the NES, Snes, Gameboy Colour, Nintendo 64 and recently revealed Gamecube to be launched in spring summer 2002, Nintendo are one of the most successful manufacturers and game developers ever.
Until June 1996 when the Nintendo 64 was launched the Sony Playstation dominated the market. The disadvantages about the Nintendo 64 cartridges was their unreliability, this caused a few problems for Nintendo, and they often ìhung/frozeî and that they were expensive to make, so therefor the selling prices of the games had to be high.
Nintendo lost out on some sales because of their high selling prices, but they did make up for their losses with some excellent games like Mario 64. Oh what a beauty! (Hats of to Shigsy).
For Nintendoís latest console the Gamecube (which is coming our way in spring summer 2,000) Nintendo have picked themselves up after their dreadful mistake and have decided to use disks for the Gamecube. Letís hope that the Gamecube works out for Nintendo.
In the future other consoles will most definitely be using disks, who knows there could be something better than disks, looming in the future.
In the 1970ís the Nintendo came to life with the Nintendo ëgame ëní watchí which enabled people to play games like ëDonkey Kongí in the palm of their hands.
Also in the 70ís was a coin-operated machine where you had to ìavoid missing a ball in order to get a high scoreî so the video game industry got a boost in sales because of the coin-op machine.
The next giant leap for video games was in June 1986, when Sega revealed themselves with the Sega master system, it wasnít to be as good as the forthcoming NES in 1983 which has great graphics good controllers and great sound. Super Mario brothers were to show just how good the Nes would be.
The Game Boy, which was launched in December 1989, which was rather large and bulky but it was to become the most successful games console ever! With the NES, Snes, Gameboy Colour, Nintendo 64 and recently revealed Gamecube to be launched in spring summer 2002, Nintendo are one of the most successful manufacturers and game developers ever.
Until June 1996 when the Nintendo 64 was launched the Sony Playstation dominated the market. The disadvantages about the Nintendo 64 cartridges was their unreliability, this caused a few problems for Nintendo, and they often ìhung/frozeî and that they were expensive to make, so therefor the selling prices of the games had to be high.
Nintendo lost out on some sales because of their high selling prices, but they did make up for their losses with some excellent games like Mario 64. Oh what a beauty! (Hats of to Shigsy).
For Nintendoís latest console the Gamecube (which is coming our way in spring summer 2,000) Nintendo have picked themselves up after their dreadful mistake and have decided to use disks for the Gamecube. Letís hope that the Gamecube works out for Nintendo.
In the future other consoles will most definitely be using disks, who knows there could be something better than disks, looming in the future.
In October 1958 a man named Willy Hinginbotham invented a rather dull game on a thing called an oscilloscope it was a game of tennis for two players, so in October 1958 video games had been born. It was a huge step for the entertainment industry, which would make them millions, if not billions in years to come.
In the 1970ís the Nintendo came to life with the Nintendo ëgame ëní watchí which enabled people to play games like ëDonkey Kongí in the palm of their hands.
Also in the 70ís was a coin-operated machine where you had to ìavoid missing a ball in order to get a high scoreî so the video game industry got a boost in sales because of the coin-op machine.
The next giant leap for video games was in June 1986, when Sega revealed themselves with the Sega master system, it wasnít to be as good as the forthcoming NES in 1983 which has great graphics good controllers and great sound. Super Mario brothers were to show just how good the Nes would be.
The Game Boy, which was launched in December 1989, which was rather large and bulky but it was to become the most successful games console ever! With the NES, Snes, Gameboy Colour, Nintendo 64 and recently revealed Gamecube to be launched in spring summer 2002, Nintendo are one of the most successful manufacturers and game developers ever.
Until June 1996 when the Nintendo 64 was launched the Sony Playstation dominated the market. The disadvantages about the Nintendo 64 cartridges was their unreliability, this caused a few problems for Nintendo, and they often ìhung/frozeî and that they were expensive to make, so therefor the selling prices of the games had to be high.
Nintendo lost out on some sales because of their high selling prices, but they did make up for their losses with some excellent games like Mario 64. Oh what a beauty! (Hats of to Shigsy).
For Nintendoís latest console the Gamecube (which is coming our way in spring summer 2,000) Nintendo have picked themselves up after their dreadful mistake and have decided to use disks for the Gamecube. Letís hope that the Gamecube works out for Nintendo.
In the future other consoles will most definitely be using disks, who knows there could be something better than disks, looming in the future.
In the 1970ís the Nintendo came to life with the Nintendo ëgame ëní watchí which enabled people to play games like ëDonkey Kongí in the palm of their hands.
Also in the 70ís was a coin-operated machine where you had to ìavoid missing a ball in order to get a high scoreî so the video game industry got a boost in sales because of the coin-op machine.
The next giant leap for video games was in June 1986, when Sega revealed themselves with the Sega master system, it wasnít to be as good as the forthcoming NES in 1983 which has great graphics good controllers and great sound. Super Mario brothers were to show just how good the Nes would be.
The Game Boy, which was launched in December 1989, which was rather large and bulky but it was to become the most successful games console ever! With the NES, Snes, Gameboy Colour, Nintendo 64 and recently revealed Gamecube to be launched in spring summer 2002, Nintendo are one of the most successful manufacturers and game developers ever.
Until June 1996 when the Nintendo 64 was launched the Sony Playstation dominated the market. The disadvantages about the Nintendo 64 cartridges was their unreliability, this caused a few problems for Nintendo, and they often ìhung/frozeî and that they were expensive to make, so therefor the selling prices of the games had to be high.
Nintendo lost out on some sales because of their high selling prices, but they did make up for their losses with some excellent games like Mario 64. Oh what a beauty! (Hats of to Shigsy).
For Nintendoís latest console the Gamecube (which is coming our way in spring summer 2,000) Nintendo have picked themselves up after their dreadful mistake and have decided to use disks for the Gamecube. Letís hope that the Gamecube works out for Nintendo.
In the future other consoles will most definitely be using disks, who knows there could be something better than disks, looming in the future.