Thursday, July 29, 2010

Fifteen Classic Game Console Design Mistakes

Video game systems may be toys of a sort, but they’re also complicated machines. They require precision engineering, specialized hardware design, and careful industrial design to successfully achieve what seems like a simple goal: to play games on a television set. Throughout the history of home game consoles, each generation of machines has brought new opportunities to innovate. Along the way, companies have often slipped up and made mistakes that came back to haunt them later–some of which were so serious that they helped to destroy platforms and even entire corporations.

http://technologizer.com/2009/08/10/fifteen-classic-game-console-design-mistakes/

A daring Dragon's Lair game collection


http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/29/a-daring-dragons-lair-game-collection