How do you control the characters in your video games? In the beginning it was Gunpei Yokoi who imaginated how LCD technology in a calculator might be used to create a miniature game.
The D-pad
- Gail Penney
- 5 July 2018
- Games , Video
Nintendo’s Flower Power
- Gail Penney
- 3 July 2018
- Games
DID YOU KNOW That Nintendo, founded in 1889 and famous for producing video games including Mario, The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon originally produced handmade Hanafuda 花札 (or ‘flower’) playing cards? Playing cards were introduced to Japan by the Portuguese traders during the mid-16th century.
BAM! Daphne Bavelier
- Gail Penney
- 28 June 2018
- Games , Video
How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and fascinatingly, multi-task. Stereotypically, first person shooters have a poor reputation when it comes to how they affect gamers.
Space Invaders
- Gail Penney
- 28 June 2018
- Games , Video
The game credited with starting the ‘Golden Age’ of arcade gaming turns 40 this month (June 2018). Bikkuri! Wow! Space Invaders is the two-dimensional shooter game where the player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at the descending aliens.
Jerry Lawson
- Gail Penney
- 30 May 2018
- Games , Video
DO YOU KNOW Who introduced the Pause button to video games? The short answer is Gerald ‘Jerry‘ A. Lawson (1 December, 1940 – 9 April, 2011) an African-American engineer and video game pioneer. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc was founded in 1957 and was a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. It became a pioneer in […]