02 Dec 2011
by
James Pungello
category
Columns
Last time I talked about the console war between Sega and Nintendo in the 1990s and how that shaped gaming going into the new millennium. This time I am going to focus my attention on the other gaming companies that tried to make headway in the 1990s but could never quite make it to the forefront of gaming.
18 Nov 2011
by
James Pungello
category
Columns
Last week I talked about how Nintendo pulled North America out of the video game crash of 1983 and became a huge part of video gaming worldwide. This week I am going to talk about Nintendo’s first real competition and how that changed the gaming landscape in the 1990s.
11 Nov 2011
by
James Pungello
category
Columns
Last time I talked about the video game crash of 1983 and what it did to the video game market in North America. While the crash did destroy gaming in America, the rest of the world continued to create video games and Japan became a big market for them. In this entry I will explain how Nintendo brought video games back to North America.
20 Oct 2011
by
James Pungello
category
Columns
I love history. I love learning about what happened in the past, how people lived, what people did and how events unfolded and are interrelated. Being a gamer, that means I especially love learning about video game history. In my column I am going to be giving you all a brief look into the past, to see where the awesome video games we have today came from. I will begin with the infamous, North American video game crash of 1983.
