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Video Game History - Final Fantasy Adventure

Video Game History - Final Fantasy Adventure   Final Fantasy box art   In 1987 Square put a trademark on the name 'Seiken Densetsu'. The english translation of this means 'Holy Sword Legend'. They where working on a project called 'The Emergence of Excalibur'. The game was under the guide of Kazuhiko Aoki. The game was being developed for the famicon disc system, and it was intended to be 5 discs long. Which at the time would have made it the largest game for a nint
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Video Game History - Id Software Doom 3

Video Game History - Id Software Doom 3   Doom 3 cover art     In 2000 Id Software's last game had been Quake 3 Arena, the company was trying to decide what to do next. They knew they wanted their next game to be singleplayer focused as both Id's fans and the gaming press had complaints about Quake 3 being a mutiplayer only title. John Carmack had built up a legendary reputation for his programming skills, even earning himself the title title 'God' by the gam
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Video Game History - Metal Gear

Video Game History - Metal Gear   Metal Gear box art     In 1985 the MSX2 computer was released and was fairly popular at the time. In 1986 Hideo Kojima joined Konami to work on games for the MSX2. Kojima had problems creating games due to his lack of familarity in programming. One day his bosses told him to create a combat game for the system. In 1986 combat games where very popular in the arcades due to the influence of films like Rambo First Blood p
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Video Game History - Metroid

Video Game History - Metroid   Metroid box art   In 1986 the Nintendo Entertainment System was doing very well thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto's Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong game franchises. The NES had become a powerhouse in gaming easily rivaling the lucrative arcade industry. However Gunpei Yokoi and his R&D1 team who previously had made some successfull games for the NES such as Duckhunt, Excitebike, and Ice Climbers wanted to show they could make a game that
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Black Lagoon Volume 10 - Manga Analysis

Follow me on: ExtraMana Tumblr Review an analysis Black Lagoon manga Volume 10. Following on from Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail OVA, volume 10 fills the gap between Rock and Revy's character speculative love interest/character progression whilst 
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Video Game History - Space Invaders

Video Game History - Space Invaders     space invaders flyer     In 1977 the videogame market was flooded with clones of the game ‘Pong’. Pong which released in 1972 had been such a huge hit that many other game companies had tried to produce their own version of the game. This led to a glut of pong consoles hitting the market meaning videogame companies had to sell their systems at a loss and consequently go out of business.  
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Video Game History - Asteroids

Video Game History - Asteroids   Asteroids arcade game   In 1962 Steve Russell creates Space War on the PDP-1 computer. It was one of the world's earliest video games and was years ahead of it's time. In 1978 Cinematronics releases Space Wars in the arcade It was based on Steve Russell's game. Space Wars used Larry Rosenthal's vector graphics technology. Vector graphics was a huge innovation in game graphics. It would allow for images drawn to have sharp edges,
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