Phoenix IV: Arcade Virtuality

Phoenix IV: Arcade Virtuality

As home consoles were becoming more sophisticated, arcade manufacturers had to stay one step ahead and devise games that couldn’t be played at home. Virtuality, a British company, introduced four virtual reality games into arcades. While the games were different, the...
Phoenix IV: Sony’s Trojan Horse

Phoenix IV: Sony’s Trojan Horse

  Nuon consoles were basically DVD players that played games. The PlayStation 2 (PS2) was a game machine that also played DVDs. And it was the console from the three major hardware manufacturers, Nintendo, Sega and even SCE, that could play DVDs. While the Xbox...
Phoenix IV: Tony Hawk Ride Skateboard

Phoenix IV: Tony Hawk Ride Skateboard

Activision released another game with a deluxe controller on November 17 (2009) in North America, and this one had been designed with teens in mind.  Tony Hawk: Ride was the latest in a series of Tony Hawk-branded skateboard games, and was the first to feature its own...
Phoenix IV: Tamagotchi

Phoenix IV: Tamagotchi

The toy was called the Tamagotchi, Japanese for “loveable egg.”  The Tamagotchi was a small, plastic egg-shaped unit attached to a keychain, with a tiny dot-matrix screen and three buttons.  When the device was turned on, a virtual on-screen pre...