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.
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.
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.
Terminology ROUND When each player has placed one card in the middle of the playing surface. HAND When each player has placed all his / her playing cards in the middle of the playing surface and there are no cards left to play.
In BAM! there are a number of different ways that scores are displayed. In the Level Selection screen, each Level has the total accumulated score for every Hand in the Level. And did you know that BAM! also records your Top 200 Individual Hand high scores?
