Tuesday 20 September 2011

Entertainment Technology of the nineties

The gaming console was not first introduced in the 90s, it had been around since the 70s. But 3D gaming consoles were around in the 90s as opposed to the original games such as Pakman. One of these consoles was the Sega Mega Dive which was brought to Australia in November, 1990. This was the beginning of the 16-bit era of video gaming. Sega had many games compatible with the device but a very popular game was Sonic the Hedgehog. Unlike the games nowadays, the game cassette would stick out the machine.


Nintendo had to compete with Sega, and did so by releasing the Super Nintendo Entertainment systems in 1992. This device became the most popular video gaming console. It was so popular that Ninetendo were able to uphold their popularity well into the 32 bit era.  

 Another device Nintendo had created was the ‘Gameboy’. This was a 8 bit hand held gaming device which hit the stores in 1990. Similar to the consoles, you had to slide the game cartitridge into the slot and be careful of getting dust into the system.  In late 1998, Gameboy colour was introduced. This meant the games were now in colour!



Cassette Players and ‘Walkmans’ (portable cassette players) were an ‘old’ invention for 90s kids. You were up-to-date if you had a ‘Discman’ (portable CD player) or a CD player.

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