nintendo has touched many of our lives in some way. My childhood memories consist of a powerpad, similar to a DDR pad, used to perform track n field events for the system, the duckhunt game & of course constantly blowing into the console & cartraige until they finally operated. There has been a fierce competition between various video game console makers, each rying their own thing. Today nintendo stake claim to the inventive & inique Wii. Nintendo will always be present in the videogame world even as other come and go.
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I remember having a NES as a kid. The funny part about it though was that it wasn't mine...it was my dads. I thought it was the greatest thing ever and then they came out with super Nintendo! I have to say though that the best part about the games were that you could drop them, leave them under your bed, or toss them across the room and they would still work! Not so for today's games that can be destroyed with a nice scratch.
ReplyDeleteThe Nintendo was the best game system when I was a kid. A friend of mine still has it and it’s just as fun now but you can see the drastic difference with the graphics compared to the new game systems. The controllers were so simple to. Now the controllers have so many buttons on them and combinations to use with the buttons for even more moves. The Nintendo was definitely a classic.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably my most favorite post I've read. Ever. I was raised on Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto is probably the biggest influence on my own personal aesthetic and cognitive sensibilities.
ReplyDeleteShigeru Miyamoto's Donkey Kong is -- even today -- a rare synergy of play-focus and narrative. I call Donkey Kong a "play-focused" game because of all the technicalities involved in the various ways points are awarded. The game loops to aspired perpetuity as a means of giving the player opportunities to score more points, and so engrave their initials on the high-score page. It can be said, then, that in games like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong, the true ending involved bringing our friends around the local pizza joint and watching them try to beat our high scores.
Home consoles changed this. Miyamoto's Super Mario Bros. was a game you played on your own, or with friends you brought into your house. You didn't share your scores or times with every patron of the local game center -- you shared them with a select few who were invited to sit in on the experience. Doing well at Super Mario Bros. meant playing well, and playing well was a kind of performance art in and of itself. The story of the game was not entirely self-contained; rather than focus on narrative, Super Mario Bros. focused on the content and execution of its gameplay: you begin the game as Mario, facing right, slightly left of the center of the screen. You move to the right, you encounter an enemy. You jump on or over it. You hit a block. It produces a mushroom. You take the mushroom. You grow.
It has ever been the natural practice that, as the game gets more difficult and the player's performance becomes more impressive, the game itself begins to look more impressive. Witness Super Mario Bros.'s level 8-3, in which Mario avoids dozens of Hammer Bros. -- the most visually impressive enemies of the game, by far, what with the hammers they're constantly throwing -- while running before a background showing numerous high castle walls. Up until this point of the game, we've only seen one castle at the end of every level; to see so many castles, perhaps all connected as one big castle, is more than cool. To see our good friend dodging hundreds of hammers over such a background is cooler than cool. To play so skillfully ourselves is an adrenaline rush.
To this day, I can't beat level 8-4 of Super Mario Bros. I don't know why. Perhaps the sanctity of the act has been built up too much.
The Nintendo is something i will NEVER forget. I would play Super Mario for hours. Another one of my favorite games was Duck Hunt. I can remember those games like it was yesterday. Maybe i should go in the basement and blow the dust off and play them again! There is nothing like bringing back old memories by doing something you haven't done in years. Video games have evolved into something extraordinary.
ReplyDeleteAh Nintendo. My first ever game system that Santa left in the fireplace. I totally wish I still had it. Nothing beats the classic. I can remember to often the troubles though. Blowing in the game and then quick giving a shot of hot air, and if that didn't work out, ever so slightly have the edge of the game out and slam the game in the box. Yes, those were the days. And game genie; remember that little piece of technology... It would give you all the secrets in the game itself.
ReplyDeleteNothing beats excitebike. Id trade in PS3 for this. Okay, thats exaggerating but you really have to wonder where video games will be in 20 years
ReplyDeleteI went right from an Atari to a PC mainly because I was in the military when Nintendo hit the market. I probably would have owed one if that wasn’t the case however, because I do like to game. I use my pc for that only because it is more versatile.
ReplyDeleteSuper nintendo was so much fun. The cars don't go as fast but mario cart was the stuff. Mario and luigi are probably the most recognised aninmated characters.
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ReplyDeleteYes! Blowing in the machine to get it to work was the worst! Technology with video games is so much better now! But my boyfriend did have to blow into his ps2 the other day when it didn't work. So maybe technology isn't toooo too advanced for us yet!
ReplyDeleteAs you can tell from my blog posts, I still love my super nintendo. I've played the wii a few times, wasn't crazy about it. Never liked the ps or ps2...the controllers were a little to high tech for me (way too many buttons!). Not to mention, I don't see the point in spending all that money when my super nintendo works just fine.
ReplyDeleteI remember having a nintendo when I was a kid. It was great. The WII I can't play...it's too advanced for me and I don't have the patience to really sit and learn how to play. I like games where you only have to go one direction and that's toward the right of your screen....the games these days you have to run around all over the place to figure out where stuff is. Maybe i'm just too old HEHEHEHEHE!!!!!!!!!
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