| The Ghost of RubangB said: Console Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Magnavox (lawsuits and dirty money, stealing the magic from Ralph Baer) Episode 2: Atari: The Clone Wars (years of clones and fierce competition, arcades and Atari bring gaming to the masses) Episode 3: Revenge of the 2600 (Bushnell is ousted from the Atari Republic, corporate interests take over Atari, the first "movie-games" are made, the market crashes, darkness for many years) Episode 4: NES: The New Hope (Nintendo creates the D-Pad, the Game Boy, platforming, quality control, and the modern console era) Episode 5: The Hardcore Strikes Back (non-gaming companies take over the industry, CDs bring FMVs and cutscenes to several consoles for new cinematic "movie-games," FF, MGS, birth of modern so-called "hardcore", freeze GameCube sales in carbonite) Episode 6: Return of the Wii (games for everybody, more diversity in genres and even control methods, "the revolution," we all get to party with Ewoks, Ralph Bear, and the ghost of Gunpei Yokoi, the empire is crushed to a distant 3rd place and gets outsold by an exercise peripheral, and the empire is so crushed that they actually start making motion controlled party games) |
No Playstation? You are clearly not of the Dark Side! 
