"Halo Killer" became part of the gaming lexicon, applied to any title that presumed to take the crown from the most successful first-person shooter of its time. Only one other franchise has arguably made that climb (that'd be Call of Duty). But nothing else can claim billions of online matches played, hundreds of accolades and awards, a highly successful multimedia empire, sales records shattered by more sales records, and a launch that single-handedly turned a two-horse console race into a three-way war. Halo was itself a game-changer, simultaneously putting new and untested hardware on the map while announcing the end of PC-shooter dominance with authority.
Dong Nguyen designed Flappy Bird , an extremely addictive game to play for 28 days and if you didn't download it then you never get to have it ! Nguyen the Vietnamese developer decided for it to be gone forever simply because it was way to addictive. On April 2013 the first Flappy Bird was out and it was called flap flap, the game had Nintendo style graphics. On Dec. 3, 2013, Flappy Bird officially entered the overall App Store charts, coming in at 1308 in the U.S. At this time, the game was ranked 74 in Family and 395 in U.S. games.
Grand Theft Auto , for me is an awesome game but for others could be offensive. Basically, its a game were you can shoot people , do missions for gangs, hijack cars, steal money from people and pick up prostitutes. The first game that was developed was in 1997 " Grand Theft Auto " and you could play it on PS1 console and Windows MS-DOS; it was a top view. David Jones and Mike Dailly are the first to develop and create GTA before the brothers Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and Aaron Garbut took over the rest of the series of games. GTA was inspired from a flaw of another game " Race N Chase". Then " Race N Chase" sued GTA with a 1 billion dollar lawsuit. Grand Theft Auto has been accused for being a violent and vulgar game and a lot of parents are against buying it for their children. I do agree that it is not for children but its so much fun for adults.
Before Mario or any jump and run plat-former, Donkey Kong was developed in 1981 by Shigeru Miyamotu. Shigeru developed Donkey Kong but did not even know its rules. Donkey Kong established Nintendo as the industry's longest standing super power. Donkey Kong features a gorilla, the games of the first genre in a single screen platform-action puzzle type featured Mario as an opponent.
Reference:
Gamasutra - The Secret History of Donkey Kong. 2015. Gamasutra - The Secret History of Donkey Kong. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/134790/the_secret_history_of_donkey_kong.php. [Accessed 18 June 2015].
Paku-Paku translated as the munching sound in Japanese is what Pac-Man meant in Japanese or as they say it "Puck-Man". The idea of this genius game came from a torn pizza that looked like the yellow character when its creator Toru Lwatami was eating and by genius I mean it actually was awarded by Guinness world records as "most successful coin operated game ". In the 1980's Pac-Man hits the US selling over 100000 units and in 1981 Ms. Pac-Man or should I say Pac-Woman was developed including multiple mazes and faster game-play. Then in 1982 "Pac-Man Fever" A cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera in the US and it sold over a million copies. Pac-Man was a circle dot that has a triangular mouth that ate dots. Each level had 240 dots to munch and there was 255 levels the 256th was unbeatable. 3,333,360 points is the max possible score anyone could get and it was first achieved by Billy Mitchel in 6 hours he is probably the greatest arcade gamer ever. In the Pac-Man game there was 4 villain ghosts that try to destroy Pac-Man. The red ghost was named Blinky, it usually takes the shortest route to you and tends to follow you. The blue ghost was called Inky and he probably was the most dangerous because he was unpredictable with his random movements. The pink ghost was named Pinky and it would always surprise you. The last ghost was orange and it was called Clyde, it was the least of a threat because it always wandered off. There are bonus points that Pac-Man would eat like the cherry which gave the least points of 100 and the blue key which gave the most points of 5000. Pac-Mans classic dissolving death was inspired by fireworks explosions. There wasn't any good inspirational quotes from Pac-Man but you would hear " waka, waka, waka!''
Reference:
Pac-Man History | PAC-MAN Official English Site. 2015. Pac-Man History | PAC-MAN Official English Site. [ONLINE] Available at:http://pacman.com/en/pac-man-history. [Accessed 18 June 2015].
In 1991, a blue hedgehog was born, running and flying around to defeat an evil scientist who has imprisoned animals in robots and stole emeralds. Sonic The Hedgehog was given to us by Sega. Sonic début on the 16-Bit Sega Genesis with amazing colours for that era and an interesting character with a unique attitude whose mission was to defeat a villain named Dr.Robotnik and save his friends. In 1992, Sonic The Hedgehog 2 was introduced and it featured Miles Tails Prower who you can play alone or along Sonic. Sonic 2 had striking awesome colours and fast paced plat-forming. Later then Sega produced other consoles that did not feature Sonic and it was not compatible which then Sonic started falling down hill. Sonic extreme was developed in fully 3D and you could play it on the new Sega consoles but it was extremely bad having a weird fish eye lens camera that doesn't capture all edges therefore it was cancelled and replaced with Sonic 3D Blast. That was not a saviour though having the worst designed tiles and its game-play was slow and boring. The Sonic team was failing and its not their fault it was Sega's poor deadlines and expectations. In 1999, Dream Cast a Sega console was introduced in North America and it was the last Sega console that lasted from 1999 until 2002 bringing with it a finished Sonic game called Sonic Adventure. Sonic Adventure was a 3D game were our tiny hedgehog and his friends has voices and and game-play was fun but the camera lens was poor for its angle shots. It was later fixed in Sonic Adventure 2 in 2002, it also had positive reviews for its smooth game-play and sound tracks but people were still not satisfied. In 2006, X-BOX 360 and PS3 adopted Sonic and it was tedious and bazaar especially that the plot was a romantic story between the hedgehog and a human princess which repel people off. Finally, the glimpse of hope for sonic was in 2011 Sonic colour and Sonic generations celebrating its 20th anniversary upgraded in a truly great plat-formers. Its disappointing to have such an amazing game in the 90's and get excited every time for each new release and then end up with disappointments and it was clear that Sega's founders became too confident after its first two successes in the 90's that they were high on success to realize its failing. We shall all remember though and learn from what sonic would say "Do I need a reason to help out a friend?"
References:
Sonic The Hedgehog: The Story You Never Knew, video,Treesicle(2014), 4 December, viewed 18 June 2015, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQCrrukJ8CA>
