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Are Coloured and Transparent Consoles Dying in the Era of Modern Technological Sophistication?

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2008-04-23 03:23:21 by Daniel in DP's Gamer Blog:: Mighty Pirate!
...consoles including my aforementioned transparent GameBoy Pocket. Actually I cant quite remember if the GameBoy Pocket actually launched with the colours or not. In anycase this release was teamed with the equally awesome Stick it in Your Pocket ad campaign This was historically a turning point for coloured consoles and was followed on by...
 
 
 
 
 
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Q&A: Greenpeace's Al-Hajj Talks Green Consoles

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2008-04-09 16:00:10 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...consoles in terms of their environmental impact Amongst the considerations taken into account are the recyclability of the consoles, the use of hazardous materials in their manufacture, and the use of energy while in idle mode In most respects, says campaign coordinator Zeina Al-Hajj, the console industry has a lot of work to do. While Sony,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Game Consoles

2008-02-24 03:50:00 by k5115000 in Games Articles
 
...Consoles made their mark only during the mid seventies. Fierce competition between two main game consoles manufacturer of that time Magnavox and Atari, had resulted in many popular video games like PONG, Odyssey and Smash. These video games grew immensely popular among the masses and thus paved the way for the next generation of game...
 
 
 
 
 
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Video Game Consoles: Changing the World of Games

2008-04-28 06:11:00 by k5115000 in Games Articles
 
...consoles. Basically, the consoles are the interactive electronic devices that manipulate the video display signals of a monitor to display a game. The monitor can be of any electronic devices such as televisions and computers. Some of the popular consoles are Sony PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP and Xbox Elite The latest...
 
 
 
 
 
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Video Game Consoles of the 1970s

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2008-06-22 15:56:30 by aDub in VideoGame2Play
...consoles, Coleco released the Telstar, which only played Tennis. However, because it went for $50, it was attractive to families. Coleco sold over a million Telstars that year - mainly because the company placed the first orders from microchip maker, General Instruments. Their competitors only received a fraction of their orders that year ...
 
 
 
 
 
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Alex St. John - The era of graphics-focused consoles are over AND this is the last generation of consoles?

2008-08-19 00:09:27 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...consoles defined by graphics and high-production values is over. Sony and Microsoft took the bet that prettier graphics would be the huge differentiating feature for their consoles. They were wrong. Everybody expects things to look good, so making it look 10 per cent better doesnt have a big impact on its value. Since thats changed, we now...
 
 
 
 
 
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Here lies PS3, Xbox 360, Wii - online execs turn doomsayers on consoles

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2008-11-13 16:07:18 by Glenn M. in Xbox 360
...consoles," he said. "I don't think Sony of Microsoft is going to make another console." He also pointed out that World of Warcraft , a PC-only MMO, made more money than all Xbox 360 software in 2007 Hilmar Petursson, CEO of CCP took another angle. "Really the only value proposition of the console was the lack of the piracy on the console...
 
 
 
 
 
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Games - Consoles - technology evolved

2007-12-22 03:41:00 by k5115000 in Games Articles
 
...consoles have a colourful history, but they only really rose into the public consciousness in the 80s with the NES the original Nintendo system. Nintendo became a word meaning video game, and the Mario character became a worldwide sensation Since then, games consoles have been an unstoppable industry. Nintendo dominated for years with the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Game consoles, physical game and movie media really dying?

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2008-03-31 12:43:07 by Chris King in That VideoGame Blog
...consoles and game software as well. With all this talk of such a convenient and magnificent near future, its hard not to think back as late as the 70s and 80s when a lot of visionary people used to say that by the year 2000 we would all be driving fully automated or flying cars. Sure, flying and fully automated cars sort of exist, as super...