The Ultimate History of Video Games - Post 5

The Ultimate History of Video Games - Pg 219-270
5 Strong comments about characters or plot
- Jack Tramiel is probably one of the most unorthodox leaders in the gaming business.
- It's a shame that Electronic Arts did bring such innovation to computer gaming but have to suffer through the Gaming Crash of 1982-83.
- The gaming crash of 1982-83 was probably my favorite event in gaming history because Atari's response to all the useless E.T cartridges was to throw them in a landfill in New Mexico.
- Those dastardly companies hoping to make a quick fortune by making a inadequate video game is what helped cause the fall of home gaming.
- Don Valentine is a very indecisive man.

4 Insightful Questions
- Why is Jack Tramiel getting thrown around different companies if he has run other ones to bankruptcy?
- What happened to Nintendo during the gaming crash?
- Why didn't Atari just create a straight port of the original Pac-Man to the 2600 instead of making a new one?
- Why did Warner Communications want to keep Atari's Coin-op division when it was sold to Jack Tramiel?

3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Synthesizer (pg 230): an electronic instrument often played with a keyboard and producing complex sounds, such as those of various other instruments
- Heyday (pg 235): the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- Infusion (pg 269): the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality

2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Simile - "Electronic Arts was founded by Trip Hawkins, a visionary man who could be generally be described as half salesman and half technophile" (Kent 260).
- Metaphor - "The industry that had shown such miraculous growth trough most of 1982 suddenly became a black hole" (Kent 239).

1 Summary Sentence
- With the video game industry proven to be profitable business, everyone wants a part of it and eventually forces the Gaming Crash of 1982-83.
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