Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Platform Studies)

Synopsis

While There Have Been A Great Many Triumphs Written About Video Games (the First Game Developed Jointly By Mit And Harvard; The Wild Success Of Pong At A Rather Seedy Bar In Sunnyvale, Ca; The Golden Age Of Videogames; And The Growing Prominence Of Video Games Over Screen-based Entertainment Mediums), There Of Course Had To Be Failures And The Nintendo Snes (super Nintendo Entertainment System) Was The Beginning Of Nintendo's Downfall. This Is A Book About Nintendo, And How It Lived The 16-bit Console Wars That Saw It Go From Being The Undisputed Industry Leader In The 8-bit Generation Of Consoles With More Than A 90% Market Share In 1989 To A Marginally Leading Top Player With A 60% Share Of The Video Game Market At The End Of The 16-bit Console War, And All The Way Down To Its Nintendo 64 Selling A Little Less Than One-third As Many Units As Sony's Dominating Playstation Console. (malik 1997) Ultimately, It Is A Critical History Of Nintendo's Fall From Grace, From The Height Of A Period I Dub The Renessance (1985-1990) All The Way Down To The Nintendo Dark Age (1996-2006) -- Introduction: Welcome To The Dark Side -- Establishing The Nintendo Economic System (nes) -- Preparing For Launch -- And Now You're Playing With Power Of Super Power -- Beyond Bits And Pixels : Inside The Technology -- The Race To 3d -- The American Video Game Renessance -- The Cd-rom That Would Not Be -- Conclusion : Silver Linings And Golden Dawns. Dominic Arsenault. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.