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Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware : the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Arsenault, Dominic, author

Overview

\"While there have been a great many triumphs written about video games (the first game developed jointly by MIT and Harvard; the wild success of Pong at a rather seedy bar in Sunnyvale, CA; the Golden Age of Videogames; and the growing prominence of video games over screen-based entertainment mediums), there of course had to be failures and the Nintendo SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was the beginning of Nintendo's downfall. This is a book about Nintendo, and how it lived the \"16-bit console wars\" that saw it go from being the undisputed industry leader in the 8-bit generation of consoles with more than a 90% market share in 1989 to a marginally leading top player with a 60% share of the video game market at the end of the 16-bit console war, and all the way down to its Nintendo 64 selling a little less than one-third as many units as Sony's dominating PlayStation console. (Malik 1997) Ultimately, it is a critical history of Nintendo's fall from grace, from the height of a period I dub the ReNESsance (1985-1990) all the way down to the Nintendo Dark Age (1996-2006)\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Subject: Nintendō Kabushiki Kaisha. / Nintendo of America Inc. / Nintendo video games History. / Video games industry History.
• ISBN: 9780262036566

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GV1469.32.A76 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE