A infographic by onlineschools.org depicts the evolution of video games and the new genre of games that have emerged from the infamous pong game
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
With over 5144 games on the PS3, it is easy to miss out on some great games. Here are some of the best unknown games on the PS3.
"Nordic Game has revealed the winners of this year’s Nordic Game Awards, which took place on Thursday, May 23, during NG24 Spring and streamed live from Slagthuset in Malmö, Sweden." - Nordic Game.
As an NES developer I am sad how wrong even the NES one is. 2KB of RAM is 2048 bytes, not 49 some thousand. And plus there's also 2KB on the PPU (Video) processor too. There's only 32KB of ROM available at one time for the CPU to read. That's wrong on the chart. There IS 64 sprites, but could only put 8 in a scanline (horizontal line) at a time. 768KB cart size is the biggest licensed size (Kirby). Games started out basically as 24KB but grew to be about 256KB average by the end with the biggest licensed game at 768KB, which was Kirby. Some though reached way bigger though. Action 52 is 2MB for program and graphics total. So the statistic for that size is very wrong and shouldn't even be there as the game can be as big as wanted by the makers, especially today with NES game hardware expanding to many MB big. Also it fails to really mention the kinda of hardware expansion these systems had. NES had incredible expansion with MMC3 and MMC5 which games games a lot more power to display more graphics and things like "status bars" (SMB3 uses MMC3 to put the status bar on the screen). Also it fails to mention that the CPU RAM is expandable up to 8KB just putting more in the cart, which many games did like Zelda to save an SMB3 to decompress the levels maps to to allow for a destructible world. You can also increase the PPU RAM for screens by 2KB to eliminate "artifacts" when scrolling more than 1 direction like on SMB3 on the right side. Good programming can also eliminate most of that but SMB3 did a bad job on that part of it. There's also 63 "safe" colors (62 safe to use though as one of them is superwhite and shouldn't be used because of how bright it is. Other "unsafe" color is superblack which will break games on LCD/Plasma TV's) on NES with 3 of those being black and more like 4 shades of grey. Those specs aren't terrible but they also aren't in stone, keep that in mind. NES homebrew is expanding the systems capabilities greatly and the knowledge. Although I also see some other VERY wrong statements too with other parts:
Sim City was not the first simulation game in 1989 at all. Maybe the first city simulation on a "console," but there's numerous simulators in the early 80's on personal computers.
Battlezone didn't even use real 3D rendering, although it probably was the first to try a psuedo-3D perspective and did do a good job.
Still, okay graph. :D
Games consoles went from being games consoles to entertainemnt devices
where's the gamecube and xbox?