Phoenix IV: Sony’s Trojan Horse

Phoenix IV: Sony’s Trojan Horse

by | Oct 25, 2017 | 2000s, Console/Handheld

  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

by | Oct 13, 2017 | 2000s, The Story Of...

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

by | Oct 10, 2017 | The Story Of...

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...