Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Blast from the Past
I own the Nintendo Wii Console. Don't you know, you can download any original Nintendo game onto the Wii. This download will have original graphics, original sound, and original controls to play the game. It's amazing how video games from years and years ago, have survived all this time. Those games were simple in graphics, and simple in controls. We have prided ourselves with graphics in new games as being so "realistic" . Well, with the original Nintendo, the graphic support was 8 bit. I'm good at math, but I couldn't tell you how many bits are the graphics in the newer consoles, because I'm sure there are a more complex scale of graphics involved.
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The amount of technology you can find in a single modern video game console is astounding. If I wasn't around to see the evolution happen right before my eyes, I would swear I was being lied to. Just take something like even the Playstation 1, and compare it to the Playstation 3. It is almost like a bad joke how much advancement that has been made in that short amount of time.
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing about video game developers is that you can look at them as not only scientists, but as artists. They use complex programs and experiments to develop these digital models. They create worlds in their games, and implement amazing story lines into them as well. I already mentioned on another blog about how video games have greatly impacted modern society. The fact that games keep growing as such a rate is incredible.