[Personal_Person]

Video game market crash of the early 80's

In the early 80's (arround 1981.) The video game market crashed unexpectedly, Arcades went under, and company's filed bankruptcy.

How it Happened

So how could one of the biggest business's in the world go under? well in the 1870's Atari (one of the only BIG gaming company's) was flooding the market with half-assed, and shitily made games. But The tipping point was reached when Activision made the "ET" video game.

ET

The ET game was a shit stain on the fabric of gaming. The game was given to one coder to make the game in 5 weeks time, so that the game could be rushed to the Christmas market. Supposedly it was 3 levels of absolute crap. so many people sent the cartridge's back to Atari, bringing the game industry to a standstill.

Nintendo

Out from the ashes came a new company out of Japan, this company was Nintendo. in 1995 Nintendo released the NES, bringing the game market back to life. along with Nintendo came Atari and Sega, but they didn't stand the test of time like Nintendo did.

I will be updating this with a new Entry tomorrow, as well for my Game review entry's which you can find here.
http://www.creativegaming.net/showthread.php?tid=518

[Box]

You should try and continue this. Make it a regular thing! :O

Add graphics, a little more information, and you got yourself a nice series. This is actually really interesting.

[Personal_Person]

You should try and continue this. Make it a regular thing! :O

Add graphics, a little more information, and you got yourself a nice series. This is actually really interesting.

Thanks for the advice. I'll be sure to add pic's in my next one.
"cough" swordquest "cough"

[Flashdrive]

Really interesting ideas you're coming up for the gaming section.

I hope you continue doing these.

[Yandex]

will this be daily or weekly?
quite interesting this kind of making the forum more interesting. :10-Shy-20px:

[Personal_Person]

Atari & the sword quest series

In the late 70's and early 80's Atari was holding a video game competition for some prizes.

The Prizes

There were 4 worlds based off of the four building blocks of matter earth, fire, water, and air. and a fifth prized where the last four winners would compete in a specially made game.
The 4 different prizes were
Earthworld: The Talisman was made of 18K solid gold, with 12 diamonds and the birthstones of the twelve Zodiac signs embedded in it, as well as a small sword made of white gold attached to the front.
Fireworld: The Chalice was made of gold and platinum and was adorned with citrines, diamonds, green jade, pearls, rubies, and sapphires.
Waterworld:The winner of this contest was supposed to receive the "Crown of Life," which was made of gold and encrusted with aquamarines, diamonds, green tourmalines, rubies, and sapphires.
Airworld:The contest prize was a "Philosopher's Stone" encrusted with diamonds, emeralds, citrines, and rubies.
The Final Prize "Sword of Ultimate Sorcery", a sword with a gold handle encrusted with jewels, and a gleaming pure silver blade which was valued at $50,000.

The actual games

I am not going to explain the actual contents of the game's because they were so allusive and hard to explain. But here is a video instead.

The video is "avgn swordquest"

Wasn't that interesting? very elusive that air world game huh? Well back on track, where do you think the Sword and other items are? I would guess they've been melted down for money, but what do you think?
For more info goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordquest#Earthworld
For my first entry go to http://www.creativegaming.net/showthread.php?tid=520

[Personal_Person]

will this be daily or weekly?
quite interesting this kind of making the forum more interesting. :10-Shy-20px:

Probably just a random spring. probably 2 on the weekend and one on the week.

[Flashdrive]

Probably just a random spring. probably 2 on the weekend and one on the week.

Well I liked reading this one something I never knew before. You have to make one on the ps3 hacking.

[Neonisa]

Well I liked reading this one something I never knew before. You have to make one on the ps3 hacking.

about the 0day exploit? Google knows a lot about it send him a PN!

[Personal_Person]

Well I liked reading this one something I never knew before. You have to make one on the ps3 hacking.

Didn't think about that. Probably going to do the next one about the section of time between old and new? you know like the old crappy 3D games and stuff?