The Grandfathers Of Video Games - 2227 Words

Olivier Leroy 26/04/2016 The GrandFathers of Video Games From the classic plumber in the red jumpsuit to the first ever motion-controlled console, the classic and most iconic video game company have been revolutionising the world of entertainment since their debut in the console market in 1983. Nintendo was originally founded in 1889 as a Japanese playing card company by a man named Fusajiro Yamauchi. A few years later, the company was not doing as well as they expected so they decided to try out many different things such as becoming a taxi company, a hotel chain and even a food company selling instant rice in 1963. Eventually, they†¦show more content†¦Two years leater, Nintendo decided to remake the Famicom and sell it to the worldwide market as the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System for short) alongside their first game; Super Mario Brothers. But because of the North American video game crash of 1983, Nintendo had no choice but to sell the. Four years later, the Game Boy was released and gained a massive amount of popularity and would be represented as the Game Watch’s successor.. In 1990 The Super Famicom was released in Japan and a year later in the west under the name Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was a successor to the NES and had 16-bit graphics compared to the NES s 8-bit. At that time, Sega had rivalled against Nintendo their Sega Genesis as well as with their mascots, Sonic against Mario. Throughout the same year, Nintendo had agreed with Sony to make a console but the two did not see eye to eye which eventually led to Nintendo backing away from the contract and five years later, The Sony Playstation was released. Four months prior to the Sony’s first console release, The Sega Saturn hit store shelves for a retail price of 400$ with amazing new 3d graphics. Because the Saturn was announced and released way earlier than video game developers had anticipated, it ended up lacking games upon release and therefore did not end up selling well. In 1995, Sony would end up selling their