Post: *Cool Video Game Facts*
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08-27-2010, 12:43 PM
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Alekz
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•The Sega Dreamcast was the first console to implement online play over a phone line, calling the system Sega Net.
•Popular Science recognized the Sega Dreamcast as one of the most important and innovative products of 1999.
•The Microsoft Xbox was the first video game system to provide full support for HDTV.
•The Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972, contained 40 transistors and no microprocessor. The Pentium 4 microprocessor contains 42 million transistors on the chip itself!
•On the original Magnavox Odyssey, players had to keep score themselves because the machine couldn't.
•The PlayStation 2 was the first system to have graphics capability better than that of the leading-edge personal computer at the time of its release.
•The PlayStation 2 was the first video game system to use DVD technology.
•The Nintendo N64 marked the first time that computer graphics workstation manufacturer Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) developed game hardware technology.
•While the original Atari Football game was first created in 1973, it wasn't released until 1978. It was delayed because the game couldn't scroll the screen -- players couldn't move beyond the area shown on the monitor. When the game was finally released, it became the first game to utilize scrolling, a key part of many games today.
•The Atari Pong video game console was the No. 1 selling item for the holiday season in 1975.
•The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in August 1976.
•The Nintendo GameCube's proprietary disc held 1.5 gigabytes of data -- 190 times more than what an N64 game cartridge could hold.
•On the market from 1991 till 2004, the SNK NeoGeo AES has tied the Atari 2600 (1977-1990) as the longest supported gaming console in history.
•The Sega Genesis featured a version of the same Motorola processor that powered the original Apple Macintosh computer.
•Mattel's Intellivison system, introduced in 1980, featured an add-on called "PlayCable," which delivered games by cable TV.
•Nintendo's Game Boy was the most successful game system ever, with more than 100 million units sold worldwide.
•The word atari comes from the ancient Japanese game of Go and means "you are about to be engulfed." Technically, it is the word used by a player to inform his opponent that he is about to lose, similar to "check" in chess.
•In the 1980s, a service called Gameline allowed users to download games to the Atari 2600 over regular phone lines. It was not a success, but did form part of the foundation for America Online, the world's largest Internet service provider.
•The first color portable video game system was the Atari Lynx, introduced in 1989 and priced at $149.
•Introduced in 1993, the 3DO was the first video game system to be based entirely on CD technology.
•The Sony PlayStation was originally intended as a CD add-on to the Super Nintendo. When licensing problems and other issues arose, Sony decided to develop thePlayStation as a machine of its own.
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More Facts About Video Games
Remember Sonic the Hedgehog? How about the Atari 2600 console? The video game industry is always growing and evolving, and obsolete game systems are classified as e-waste. Here are a few facts about video games:
•Nintendo became a household name when it introduced the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.
•While Sony has invented electronic products from transistor radios to video recorders, its top-selling product of all time is a video game console.
•In 2007, the video game industry had a revenue of $18.8 billion, a 40 percent increase from 2006.
•The video game console market is one of the fastest growing in consumer electronics, with more than 60 million sold in 2007.
•The current “big three” video console manufacturers (Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony) all use hazardous chemicals and materials like polyvinyl chloride (PVC), phthalates, beryllium and bromine in their products.
•The consoles also contain circuit boards like hard drives, which feature lead that can leach out of landfills and into the water supply.
•While video game players are not likely to be exposed to these harmful chemicals, scrap yard workers are at higher risk if they’re thrown in the trash.
•According to e-waste recycler Electronic Recyclers International, the disposal of consoles and video games increases at an alarming rate with the evolution of gaming technology.
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08-27-2010, 02:46 PM
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