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lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2011

20 curiosities of gaming

No doubt some already know, but others did not see as I leave here.

1. The largest slot machine world measures 4.11 meters long and has a push and lentil dishes, apart from a screen of 1.81 meters. It can play over 150 different games, though, standing on a ladder.

2. To promote the Xbox 360 in Australia, Microsoft hosted the largest water balloon fight in history, launching more than 51,400. We do not know very well if all participants or directly to the Redmond company.

3. A video game of 1987 on Jack the Ripper was the first game ever to be classified for 18 years because of its violent images.

4. The most expensive video game history has been GTA IV, costing their development more than 100 million dollars, which by now have been amply recovered. The previous most expensive game in history was developed Dreamcast Shenmue costing $ 80 million, although this failed to recover the investment.

5. The mansion with more rooms in the history of video games is that which appeared in Castelvania: Symphony of the night, Psx, with 1890 rooms.

6. The longest cutscene appeared in a video game is Metal Gear Solid for PSX, appears to defeat Metal Gear Rex, and lasts no less than 15 minutes and 17 seconds. At the end of this sequence is more than likely that we have forgotten how to play the game.

7. The game with more characters to choose from is Lego Star Wars, which totals 96, but to be able to combine different pieces and body parts together can have a whopping one million selectable characters. Who is the brave who spends the game with everyone?

8. Street Fighter 2: The Movie, the first video game in history to be based on a movie which in turn is also based on a video game. Obviously such degeneration could not be good and the game was a resounding commercial failure, and differ a little with the anime version of the saga that had better results.

9. Mortal Kombat was the game that led to create the ERSB, the organization that rates video games according to age and violence in America, where even the game came to be present in discussions of the congress.


10. The first shooter video game in history was created in 1961. It's called Spacewar! and performed in only 200 hours.

11. The first Half-Life is the most awarded game in history, receiving more than 90 awards, in addition to 51 classifications such as "The best game of the year."

12. The largest collection of history in a single day for the sale of a game was with the offering for sale of Halo 3, getting $ 151 million, again, on his first day out.

13. The largest series of video games if you count the number of deliveries is certainly Megaman. From the original NES to the present day, the saga is over 44 sequels. Will the delivery last 45 where they kill Megaman?

14. The best football game in history according to the valuation of the users is Sensible Soccer, where his tremendous and addictive gameplay surprised to the technical level of the time.

15. Colin McRae: Dirt, has an elaborate system of realistic sound, which can be mixed, ATTENTION: 1,005,772,154,467,879,035,136 sounds. You have to have the fine ear. Espeluzna I think who is the champion who has heard all to count.

16. All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, has four aircraft fully painted with Pokemon characters, and even the hostess aprons look the same.

17. In the multiplayer role playing Everquest 2, we could type "/ pizza" and then we used to connect directly to the site of Pizza Hut from the game, accepting orders at home. Very useful for people who will not or can go out and have yet to 32 hours to kill the dragon.

18. The highest score you can achieve in the game Pac-Man is 3,333,360 million points. Only 5 oci ... forgiveness ... people throughout history have accomplished.

19. Washington University in 1991 created "Virtual Retinal Display," a technology that uses low-frequency laser to write information directly to our retina, and that our own eye becomes the monitor. Volunteers are needed for the experiment, Who says?

20. The game with more extension travel is Armed Assault, which has an area of ​​400 square km. We do not know if we traverse the entire skid unlock a prize in the game.

martes, 15 de noviembre de 2011

Museum retro consoles: XBOX

Microsoft had collaborated in 1999 with SEGA to bring the Windows CE operating system to the Dreamcast, from which grew the interest of the Silicon Valley giant to enter the console market with an independent project, which would mark the sixth generation .

The console we saw in the previous article was the GameCube.

Xbox

Maximum number of players: four on the same console.

Type of control: analog sticks.

Connecting to the Internet through ethernet port.

Year: 2001.

The year was not produced: 2006.

Iterations of the console was: none.

Reading through play: DVD ROM.

Introductory price: $ 299.99 USD.

Final Price: $ 149.99 USD.

EBay Price: $ 70 USD to $ 100 USD.

Availability: excellent.

Representative Games: Halo series, Dead or Alive 3, several Splinter Cell titles, Knights of the Old Republic, Ninja Gaiden Black, GTA San Andreas.



Some team members DirectX at Microsoft, created a prototype based on this console technology, presented to the directors of the company by the name DirectX box (soon to change to Xbox only) and approved development. The system included major technological advances compared to previous eras consoles and even the same generation: all Xbox had a hard drive, thus eliminating the need for memory cards to save your game progress. As if that were not enough, for the first time included a console capable of playing titles with Dolby Digital in real time.

It is true that the Xbox had many advantages, but something that was criticized by users and media, was the control. Its dimensions were huge and so far it is recognized as one of the worst in the history of the industry, so a year later was redesigned for a more manageable size.

In 2002 Microsoft launched its Xbox Live service enabling online play with others, download extra content, demos and estabelcer voice communication. To ensure a more stable experience among users, the Xbox required a broadband connection, leaving aside the kind support dial up connections. LIVE was a success and soon attracted more than 250,000 users.

Although Sony made deals to ensure the exclusivity of some major titles when the contracts expired the games began coming to the Xbox. With the passage of time began to be simultaneous releases on both platforms, so that each company began investing in the purchase of school to support certain exemptions at home, as the case of Halo, one of the most successful Microsoft System and he demonstrated its ability to be installed in the rooms of a large number of players around the world.