Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Eoc week 3 The beginning of the end of today’s video game.


                                

                            Eoc    The beginning of the end of today’s video game.

          What travel agents learned from Expedia, Borders learned from Amazon, Tower Records learned from Apple iTunes and Blockbuster learned from Netflix, the traditional game makers are about to learn from free-to-play online video game companies: their business is about to fall off a cliff.  Eric Savitz, Forbes Staff


    Growing up in the 80’s as a kid, the biggest thing there was the video arcade. Let’s step back a bit; my local bowling alley, besides bowling, had a pool hall with some pinball machines and foosball tables. Then the game, space invaders, came out and everything changed.  The game originally came out in 1978 by the midway games that started in Japan by a designer Tomohiro Nishikado. I saved every quarter from my lunch money and my part time job to play in the video arcade back then. After school, I went directly to the arcade with all my friends and just playing whatever at the time the arcade. But as every good thing that comes out, must come to an end. The era of the console ended the era of the video arcade.  Now the video game console is starting to come to an end one day. As the video arcades ended, so will the game console and their dvd counterpart’s.

Horn, an action-RPG designed for Android and iOS, is being billed as the action game that tablets and mobile phones have been waiting for. The game has impressive graphics, and does look quite a lot better than the majority of mobile games. But murmurs that this is the beginning of the end for consoles are overwrought, as usual. Erik Kain,


         The biggest craze is portable devices; and I’m not talking about Sony and Nintendo hand held, but your smart phone and tablet is taking over. Just think about it, more games are being developed for your phone and tablet and you don’t have to be home to connect to other players on the internet. There are more game apps, and some are free, then any other type of app. This important thought; you can develop your own game and sell it. What will be the next big? I don’t know but it will be big.

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