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Few home video game consoles have had such an impact on the video game industry as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Released in the United States in 1985, it revived the market after the video game industry crash of 1983. This encyclopedia entry details its history, covering its design process,
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Nintendo released the Super Famicom in 1990 in Japan and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1991 in North America and 1992 in Europe. Its release allowed Nintendo to successfully counter the PC-Engine in Japan and to mitigate the success of the SEGA Genesis in North America during a
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This paper presents the research project of the INTEGRAE team. It aims to unravel the links between graphical technologies and innovation in the games industry and in gamer culture by focusing on a specific historical corpus: the transition from 2D to 3D graphics in the 1990s. This transition is of
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Technological innovation in the video games industry is a rich area of research that has barely been explored as of yet. It is usually taken for granted in game historiography that “[g]ame graphics were, and to a large extent still are, the main criteria by which advancing video game technology
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