The Ultimate History of Video Games - Pg 389- 446
5 Strong comments about characters or plot
- It seems that Nintendo's security chip in their NES, originally to help create a quality control over video games, is only brings tons of lawsuits to them.
- The Sega Genesis was Nintendo's first real form of competition.
- In the past and the present, Nintendo has never cared about pure processing power and having the most high-end graphics.
- If Wisdom Tree was not a company making christian games, they would have most likely been sued instantly.
- Tom Kalinske was the savior of Sega and helped the Genesis break into the American home console market.
4 Insightful Questions
- If the American arcade business was dead, how did Street Fighter II sell so many copies?
- Why did Nintendo decide to buy the Seattle Mariners?
- Did the TurboGrafx ever have a mascot to sell their system like Sega and Nintendo did?
- Why did Rare stop producing video games?
- Did Yoshiki Okamoto ever make a driving game that his boss asked for?
3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Innocuous (pg 400): not injurious to physical or mental health
- Incestuous (pg 402): resembling incest as by excessive intimacy
- Torqued (pg 438): twisted; wreathed; bent
2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Hyperbole - "A Rising Star at Mattel, Kalinske tracked the new electronics meteoric ascent and fall" (Kent 425)
- Metaphor - "A student of classic marketing, Kalinske believed in the Gillete school of 'giving away the razors to sell the blade'" (Kent 427).
1 Summary Sentence
- Nintendo and Sega enter the 16-bit era of consoles and that is when the real competition between the two begin.
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