Is Samus good enough? Her first claim in "Women as Reward — Tropes vs Women in Video Games" was about the Metroid series where finishing the game fast enough shows Samus in a "cut-out bikini"‚ which at first might seem misogynistic‚ principally when as in the first game she would take off more clothes‚ the quicker you finished. However‚ gamers don’t really
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The amount of amazing franchises that exist on Nintendo consoles reads like a who’s who. This list includes Mario‚ Zelda‚ Star Fox‚ Metroid‚ Pikmin‚ Kirby‚ and‚ of course‚ Pokemon. For any kid who owned a Game Boy back in the day‚ they knew how much fun Pokemon was. It is a very popular franchise‚ but here are some unknown facts that are sure to blow your mind. FIRST FACT: POKEMON IS AN AMERICAN WORD Many of you probably thought that Pokemon was a Japanese word‚ but it is not. It was actually originally
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roles. From early on in video games women have been over sexualized‚ current games have not changed the view of women‚ and kids are being misinformed on how women should be in the real world. Video games as early as 1986 represented women sexually. Metroid‚ the 8-bit game on the Nintendo Entertainment System was one of the first games to sexualize a women. It did this by removing Metroid’s armor
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Cited: Dietz‚ Tracy L. "An Examination of Violence and Gender Role Portrayals in Video Games: Implications for Gender Socialization and Aggressive Behavior." Sex Roles 38.5-6 (1998): 425-442 Dockrill‚ Peter. "Metroid Prime 3: Corruption." APC 28.2 (2008): 114. Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts "Donkey Kong in Little Bear Country”. The Elementary School Journal 101.4 (2001): 417 Ogletree‚ Shirley‚ and Ryan Drake. "College Students’ Video Game Participation
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system‚ so only Nintendo approved cartridges work in the system. Their mission was not to put out a lot of mediocre grossing games‚ but to put out a few games a year but top quality ones. To name a few‚ are Super Mario Broters‚ The Legend of Zelda‚ Metroid. To uphold with the demands‚ Nintendo started licensing other companies to develop games for their system. Nintendo made the licensing companies sign an agreement where they limited each company to to a certain numbers of games they can release
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characters in them to somwhat preserve the history of video games. For example a game called Super Smash Brothers was published in january 2016. SSB is a large mashup of all the copyrighted characters owned by nintendo in one large fighting game. Sonic‚ Metroid‚ and Megaman were all 1960’s SEGA created Characters repacaged and added to SSB. The game has made 20 million dollars in revenue since then. Over one hundred thousand people are currently working at ninendo and they are living very successfull lives
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was wide open for Nintendo. This allowed Nintendo to establish high royalty licensing agreements with game development companies after Nintendo established their initial victories with games such as Super Mario Brothers‚ The Legend of Zelda‚ and Metroid. Nintendo’s previous accomplishments in both Japan in the United States also paved the way for the Famicom / NES to be a hit. With their hit coin-op arcade game‚ Donkey Kong‚ and portable game system Game and Watch (considered a hit only in Japan)
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competitors over the years starting with Atari and Calico. In 1985 they took the rapidly failing game market by storm releasing the Nintendo Entertainment System along with 15 other games sold separately. By 1987 they have released 20 games including Metroid and Super Mario Brothers‚ and completed the annihilation of the Atari with the release of The Legend of Zelda. In 1996 there was the release of the Nintendo 64 which was almost out shown by Sony’s Play Station released in the same year due to the
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The video game crash of 1983 was one of the biggest defining parts of gaming history. The crash caused the major transition from the modern and old era of gaming with its effect still here today. Many today don’t know what the crash was and how it changed gaming forever‚ so I am going to explain it and its effect on the gaming industry. What was the video game crash of 1983 and how did it start and end. One of the major factors of the crash was the over inflation of the market. This over inflation
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