Here is an interesting article from a Nintendo gameboy fan who has seen the handheld from its earliest days to how it has helped shape the design and vision of hand-helds today.In a 3-dimensional gaming world, there's no shortage of 2-d portables and this writer sets out to pay respects to one of the pioneers of hand-held gaming and examines the heights it has reached.
As videogames push their way into the third dimension, creating realism and detail in graphics is becoming more and more important. Modern games are becoming extremely life-like, with realistic speech, facial expressions, and environments. The goal seems to be creating the most realistic digital world technology allows. How, then, does a console whose graphics are utterly Âunrealistic and whose games are largely 2d, become the highest selling game console in the world? NintendoÂs Game Boy is this console, despite the obvious lack of powerful hardware.
This small, Âunderpowered device has had an undeniably significant impact on both the videogame and electronics world. From the puzzle game Tetris, to a little RPG known as Pokemon, it has spawned some of the most well known videogame franchises. The consoleÂs influence on modern American culture is deceptively large, and it continues today to influence everything from cellular phones to television.
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