The Ultimate History of Video Games - Post 9

The Ultimate History of Video Games - Pg 447-526
5 Strong comments about characters or plot
- With the home console industry still growing, I don't think anyone was ready to pay $699 for a 3DO Multiplayer.
- The first Need for Speed game, the popular racing game, was first originally made for the 3DO Multiplayer.
- The Stamper Brothers are one of the few true game engineering genius of this generation.
- Sony enters the home console industry with the Playstation.
-The video game industry gets its own version of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), known as the the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).

4 Insightful Questions
- Why didn't Trip Hawkins want to make software for the 3DO Multiplayer?
- Was it necessary of Sega to create the 32X with the Sega Saturn already on it's way?
- What was the point of releasing the Virtual Boy?
- Why did Sega release the Saturn months after the holiday season?

3 Vocabulary Words and Definitions
- Sanctimonious (pg 477): excessively or hypocritically pious
- Niche (pg 478): a small concavity
- Albeit (pg 479): despite its being; although

2 Examples of Literary Terms
- Metaphor - "Doom would become a lightening rod in later years" (Kent 460).
- Pun - "Moral Komat (Mortal Kombat)" (Kent 461).

1 Summary Sentence
- The Video Game Industry begins using 3D technology, which was used in Sony's Playstation, a new emerging competitor for Nintendo and Sega.