Sentences with phrase «video game crash of»

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Even though it was released in the time period when the North American video game crash of 1983 was happening, this game didn't suffer any bad consequences because of this fact.

Though its famed Atari 2600 entertainment system (1977) is often considered to have shaped the standards of home consoles, the company has been in a steady decline since the video game crash of 1983.

However, once you pour hot water into it, the image changes and reveals that the logo isn't for the arcade version of Pac - Man, but rather the Atari 2600 version which was famously terrible and helped contribute to the video game crash of 1983.

- North American video game crash of 1983, Wikipedia

It recognized the single most damaging flaw of XBLIG, which was the loss of consumer confidence in the platform (similar to the video game crash of 1983 as mentioned before), and addressed it.

Even at this late point, the home market was still suffering from the fallout caused by the North American video game crash of 1983.

Following the North American video game crash of 1983 many retailers had lost confidence in the video game market.

The creation and marketing of R.O.B. as a «Trojan Horse» after the North American video game crash of 1983 was placed fifth in GameSpy's twenty - five smartest moves in gaming history.

It gives a clear perspective of the video game crash of Atari and the Colecovision and the rise of modern gaming.

No matter — the point is that after the video game crash of 1983 (non-nerds: this really did happen), we didn't have much to live for.

Also, could this be the precursor to another «video game crash of 1983» if we don't start doing some quality control on video game content?

Not exact matches

A company's brand may crash and burn if video game players perform poorly when they use branded products as part of the game, according to a team of researchers.

And he's doing a lot of gym - built rubbernecking at the ginormous creatures crashing around overhead in this enjoyably preposterous summer actioner, based on the 80s video game of the same name.

Over a two year period, he's allegedly stolen and crashed a handful of cars and aircraft, having taught himself to fly from video games and a flight manual purchased using a stolen credit card.

Need for Speed Rated PG - 13 for sequences of reckless street racing, disturbing crash sequences, nudity and crude language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the highly successful video game, Need for Speed follows Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul as he attempts to join a highly secretive street race worth millions of dollars to the winner.

Atari is the reason we almost don't have a gaming industry since their lack of standards for games led to a market crash in which no one in their right mind would buy a gaming device for fear of playing E.T.. However, despite nearly destroying the gaming industry forever, Nolan Bushnell is definitely an important figure in the world of gaming and definitely deserves to receive the Fellowship at this year's GAME British Academy Video Games Awards, which he will.

Instead of a nasty edit, I gave you guys a nice little video game music / sound effects interpretation of the crash.

One of the highlights that keeps the focus on the action is a slow motion crash cam that zooms in and slows down the video on the games biggest crashes.

When people talk about 1983 they almost always refer to it as the year of the video game crash.

What Jeremy set out to do was a labor of love, where you can take your average gamer, sit them down with their parents that don't «get» games and for 90 minutes and get a crash course on why video games are a wonderful beautiful thing and why they continue to be a global phenomenon that's growing.

The second urban legend is that E.T. sold so badly that the game was a direct cause of the video game market crash of 1983, the near - complete destruction of the American video game industry.

When Crash Mode was introduced in Burnout 2, it provided hours of entertainment as it challenged the player to create the most spectacular car crashes ever seen in a video game.

E.T. wasn't a cause of the video game crash, it was a symptom of the problems that caused it.

As you can see from the video, EA had designed a fairly ok open - world Metropolis, which in turn has created more issues, like crashing into buildings, I remember playing this game and it was quite fun, but the number of times I was trying to navigate the streets to the waypoint but just kept crashing into the tall skyscrapers.

In many interviews (including on an episode of G4's «Icons», as seen above), he had mentioned about how the game was «the» thing to blame when the video game industry started to crash.

I recall reading awhile ago about how the video game market in the 80's had a similar eruption of titles — right before it crashed.

Indie games are having a tough time now (some experts suggest that we are on the threshold of the new video game crash).

While I don't have time to talk about the video game crash here, the previous Atari - led console generation lead to a complete failure of the U.S. game market thanks to a flood of poor - quality junk video games.

Where Playtonic's train wreck of a car crash of a house fire of a video game was rightfully savaged in the gaming press and communities, Snake Pass was praised and anointed the true next step of the 3D platformer.

The video game crash 0f 1983 brought down many prominent video game companies as the bulk of the industry seemingly disappeared.

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The idea came about after the crash of the video game industry in the 1980's.

The video game is a first - person shooter set in the 1960s, which begins with the protagonist swimming from the burning wreckage of a plane crash, finding a submersible in an apparently abandoned lighthouse and descending to find himself in an underwater city.

It is all too interesting to note that history already had repeated itself, as the fall of XBLIG parallels the fall of the entire North American video game scene back in the infamous crash of 1983:

As I recall, the whole crash and rebranding of their consoles was one of the reasons Nintendo made R.O.B.; not interested in a new video game console?

Her favourite subjects include «cross-species romance, dogs with itchy butts, drunk people barfing, strange fish, cloud formations, car crashes with test dummies flying out of them, weird glitches from video games that force human bodies into unnatural contortions, hilarious porn scenes, baby pratfalls, animals with clothes on, dogs humping unsuspecting humans, people wanking, kangaroos wanking, bears wanking» — anything outrageous, raunchy or abject.

I only experienced a few rare instances of app crashes or overall system slow - downs in the several weeks I spent with the device, and overheating never became an issue even after prolonged use of video calling or games.