manufacturers can trace their roots far before that decade‚ reaching back into the early 1900s or even the late 1800s. While some video game companies‚ such as Nintendo and Sony‚ would begin their economic pursuits in other fields‚ companies like Atari and Sega were created with an eye toward producing the ultimate gaming system. The first major video game company to come into being was Nintendo‚ which would eventually make video games popular again in the 1980s. Nintendo is a Japanese company that
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6/23/2013 1. Why the rapid growth of Atari? Why the 1982-85 collapse? How did Nintendo rebuild the industry? What was its strategy? The reason of rapid growth is the Atari’s products are highly differentiation. Atari is the first company enters the market‚ although some companies enter the market later‚ but Atari already build the reputation of highest technology support and the popular games provider to the customers. In the production competition‚ the Atari is the cost leader because they enter
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Gaming has been around since the late 1960’s far later than I had thought‚ for me I had always thought that the Atari 2600 was the first gaming system known to mankind‚ and after starting my research I found out how wrong I was. In this part of the teams paper I will discuss the different types of this technology thought it history. In 1967 the first gaming console ever was created and was named the “Brown Box.” A German born television engineer Ralph Baer and his colleagues created the Brown
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to go out of business. No company was safe from the crash companies filed for bankruptcy left and right bigger companies closed their video game branches‚ then Atari broke up. Atari was the king of gaming in the 1980s and it breaking up is comparable to Disney breaking up today. This was the low for video games and even though pieces of Atari are still here today the company had already died. The video game industry seemed to be destroyed‚ until a curious Japanese man named Fusajiro Yamauchi came and
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through the industry. Soon companies like Midway‚ an old-line maker of equipment for amusement parks‚ started getting into the game. The coin-op company that brought Space Invaders to America had invaded the space of Atari and at that time Atari was the industry leader in a big way. Then Atari CEO Ray Kasser thought it would be a good idea not to fight it but to get exclusive home rights for the
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was fairly simple‚ it was nevertheless a masterpiece of design‚ using far fewer parts than anything in its class‚ and quickly earning Wosniak a reputation as a master designer. Jobs approached a local computer store‚ The Byte Shop (which sold Atari games); the proprietor said he would be interested in the machine‚ but only if it came fully assembled. There were many kits that required being soldered together‚ but an already-assembled computer could reach a wider market. The two Steves and their
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Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple Computers‚ the makers of well-designed‚ well-coordinated‚ and good-looking personal home computers. Steve Jobs teamed together with Steve Wozniak to invent one of the first ready-made personal home computer. Steve Jobs was also a smart business who became a multimillionaire before the age of thirty. In 1984‚ Steve Jobs founded NeXT computers. In 1986‚ he bought the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd and started Pixar Animation Studios. What
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Several factors accounted for Nintendo’s success in the home video game business where other companies such as Atari had failed. These can be categorized into their approach to the open market‚ their established presence due to previous triumphs‚ their focus on technology‚ research & development‚ their powerful marketing strategy‚ and finally their overpowering licensing & distribution strategy. By 1985 the home video game market was in shambles. After the oversaturation of the market with dozens
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between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to the Atari ST.[1] The Atari ST version was a translation of Word 1.05 for the Apple Macintosh; however‚ it was released under the name Microsoft Write (the name of the word processor included with Windows during the 80s and early 90s).[2][3] Unlike other versions of Word‚ the Atari version was a one time release with no future updates or revisions. The release of Microsoft Write was one of two major PC applications that were released for the Atari ST (the
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Racism and Video Games Video games are not what most people would go to when they think of racial controversy‚ but every media medium has had their own form of controversy one that happened most recently was the release of a game called Resident Evil 5 which is centered around a guy named Chris Redfield who is basically in a FBI like group centered around killing zombies. As you may have guest this is not the first in the series of the game the series has been around for about 15 years and has
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