by Leonard Herman | Nov 1, 2017 | 1990s, Arcade
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...
by Leonard Herman | 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...
by Leonard Herman | Oct 17, 2017 | 2000s, Console/Handheld, The Story Of...
One third-party vendor, Acclaim, managed to raise controversy with several stunts that it pulled throughout the year. The first occurred in late-February (2002) when it released Shadow Man: 2econd Coming for the PS2. The game dealt with death, so Acclaim offered to...
by Leonard Herman | 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...
by Leonard Herman | 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...