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2 unusual facts about video game console


American Heart Association

In May 2010, the AHA endorsed the Nintendo Wii Console to encourage everyone to get involved in a level of fitness that would develop healthiness.

Wheelchair trainer

A quadrature rotary encoder or hall effect sensor can be implemented to provide sufficient speed and direction information to enable virtual navigation interface with video games in a manner similar to using a joystick or gaming console.


Cosmic Conflict

Cosmic Conflict from 1978 is one of the games for the Philips Magnavox Odyssey², a console from the 1970s in the 8-bit home video game console era.

GBAtemp

GBAtemp is an international video gaming community centered around a discussion forum focusing on Nintendo and other handheld devices and consoles, such as the Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and Wii.

Media Design School

The school also includes console video game development in its game development course curriculum, with access to Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo GameCube development kits.

Melesta Games

Nowadays it develops games across multiple platforms like PC, iOS, Android, Windows phone, Mac, social, Video game console etc.

OtherOS

OtherOS was a feature available in early versions of the PlayStation 3 video game console that allowed other operating systems, such as Linux or FreeBSD, to be installed on the system.

Play N Trade

Play N Trade stores sell new and used consumer electronics, including video games and consoles, Apple products, laptops, and cellular phones, and accept trade-ins of the same.

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System is a book by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort describing the history and technical challenges of programming for the Atari 2600 video game console.

Sled Storm

The first game in the Sled Storm series was released on the PlayStation 1 video game console.

Sonic Adventure: Songs With Attitude Vocal Mini-Album

Sonic Adventure Songs With Attitude ~ Vocal Mini-Album ~ is the video game music album from the 3D platformer Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast video game console developed and produced by Sega.

Strategy guide

In January 2001, Prima published a guide (ISBN 0-7615-3125-4) for the Dreamcast version of Half-Life, which was canceled late in development when Sega discontinued the console.

Super PLAY

Despite its independence, it initially only covered Nintendo games, but the coverage was extended to all major consoles in 1995.

The Idolmaster

Originally released as an arcade game in 2005, the franchise has grown to numerous ports, sequels and spin-offs across multiple video game consoles, including two social network games.

Věříš si?

The special prize may vary in every episode, usually it's a portable media player or a Sony video game console.

VG Chartz

The main service provided by VG Chartz is weekly charts of hardware and software sales for the video game consoles sold by Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

Video game-related health problems

Video game consoles linked to medical problems include the PlayStation and the Nintendo Wii, although it is unknown whether certain types are more connected to these problems than others.


see also

3DO

3DO Blaster, an ISA add-on card for PCs which included the full chipset for the 3DO video game console

Carla Meninsky

Carla Meninsky was a video game designer during the early years of the Atari 2600 video game console.

Circle of Death

The Red Ring of Death is a nickname for a number of system problems of the Xbox 360 video game console

ESWAT

ESWAT: City under Siege, a 1990 side scrolling platform video game for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis video game console

GP2X Wiz

In February 2009, South Korean president Lee Myung-bak had stated that "Korea needs to develop a video game console like a Nintendo DS".

Hiroshi Fujioka

From 1997-1998, Fujioka portrayed Segata Sanshiro in a series of television and print advertisements for the Sega Saturn video game console in Japan.

Lisa the Tree Hugger

Bart, needing money for the new video game console Gamestation 256, takes a job hanging menus on doors for a Thai restaurant.

Putnam, Connecticut

In 2006, the town made national news after an individual was shot twice by masked robbers while waiting in a group overnight outside a local Wal-Mart for the release of the PlayStation 3 video game console.

PVD Disc

DcVD – A non-standard MPEG-1 format for the Sega Dreamcast video game console

Towelie

The name of the Okama Gamesphere video game console is a take on the Nintendo GameCube, which was to be released shortly after the episode was written.

Yoshida Brothers

The commercials for the Nintendo's Wii video game console that began airing in North America in November 2006 featured the Yoshida Brothers song "Kodo (Inside the Sun Remix)".