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The console had over 500 games created by more than 60 companies, each with a legal license to produce compatible game cartridges. [2] By design, these cartridges were difficult for unauthorized third-parties to alter or reverse engineer. [3]
A Star Raiders ROM cartridge for an Atari computer. A ROM cartridge, usually referred to in context simply as a cartridge, cart, cassette, or card, is a replaceable part designed to be connected to a consumer electronics device such as a home computer, video game console or, to a lesser extent, electronic musical instruments.
The transition from handheld "electronic" games to handheld "video" games came with the introduction of LCD screens. These screens gave handheld games the flexibility to play a wide range of games. Milton Bradley's Microvision, released in 1979, used a 16x16 pixel LCD screen and was the first handheld to use interchangeable game cartridges. [17 ...
The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware ...
The earliest consoles had game cartridges; the Intellivision cartridge packaging featured a box color-coded to the "network" or category of the game (one of several themes, such as "action", "sports", etc.). The front cover opened up, book style; on the inner front cover, a slot retained the paper manual – a simple booklet, as well as the ...
Cartridge-based handheld game consoles became prominent during this time, such as the Nintendo Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear and TurboExpress. Nintendo was able to capitalize on its success in the third generation , and managed to win the largest worldwide market share in the fourth generation as well.
The Game Design Reader (ISBN 978-0-262-19536-2) by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman. Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light (ISBN 978-1-56881-318-9) by Deborah Todd Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish (ISBN 978-0-7864-6952-9) by Lewis Pulsipher (2012). Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games
The game was given an Honorable Mention for "Best Pong Variant" in 1982 at the Third Annual Arcade Awards ("Arkies"), and it was reviewed in Video magazine's "Arcade Alley" column a month later where it was praised as "a real one-of-a-kind cartridge". [7]: 80 The game contains an Easter Egg displaying the programmer's name as an object in the ...