Game History 4004 731: You gotta fight for your right to party?

You gotta fight for your right to party? (23 September 2004)

Historical Rights Research

Step 1: 2000 Words on each company, 2 companies each (except atari and nintendo 4000 words): minimum citiation 10 and should include your book, historical websites and where possible, historical articles on companies. Website resources include mobygames.com and wordiq

"http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Timeline_of_video_games"

Due Date: Midnight oct 4th as 500 word summary on your blog. Submit full paper as hard copy to me in class the next day,

We'll pick from these companies...

Nintendo (Pres PS1)
Sega
Atari (arcade and console only)
Coleco
Intellivision
Taito
Namco
Magnavox
Bally/Midway
Capcom
Texas Instruments
Konami
Williams
Atrovision
Gottlieb
Activision
Taito
Tengen

Items to cover:

Company History, significant hardware and software release dates, top/most significant releases, different platforms most significant tiles appeared on, dates, company current status (dead, acquired, etc) current status/availability of titles.

Use your book, and web resources.

Step:2 In class we'll discuss your findings

Step 3: we'll use the information you've gathered to help us determine our letter writing campaign steps :-)

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Comments

Midway and Konami

Posted by: Kevin Wogenrich on September 23, 2004 11:35 AM | Permalink to Comment

I will be analyzing Nintendo.

Posted by: Carlo Costino on September 23, 2004 11:35 AM | Permalink to Comment

Midway

Capcom

Posted by: Rohith Lasrado on September 23, 2004 11:35 AM | Permalink to Comment

Sega!

Posted by: jay on September 23, 2004 11:35 AM | Permalink to Comment

I would like to research Activision and Capcom.

Posted by: Christian on September 23, 2004 11:35 AM | Permalink to Comment

Coleco and Intellivision ... since all the good ones are taken already :(

Posted by: Luis Ramirez on September 23, 2004 11:37 AM | Permalink to Comment

I'll take Capcom for my first pick. I'll leave the second pick open in case there are any companies everyone else misses.

Posted by: David Cary on September 23, 2004 11:37 AM | Permalink to Comment

Namco and umm... what's Tengen, I suppose I can take that one

Posted by: Matt Gaul on September 23, 2004 11:43 AM | Permalink to Comment

Seeing as how Midway and Capcom seem to both be popular choices, I'll take Namco as my first pick

I'd still like Midway or Capcom to be my second. Whichever is least contested

Posted by: Rohith Lasrado on September 23, 2004 11:46 AM | Permalink to Comment

I'll take:

Activision
Taito

Posted by: Christian on September 23, 2004 11:46 AM | Permalink to Comment

Hmm... I think I'll give up on Capcom. Of the unclaimed ones, Atari is tempting. However, it does look like a huge field with a lot of topics to cover. I think I'll try for more depth on the smaller ones. Williams and Gottlieb look like as good a pair as any. Just for the record, this leaves the following unclaimed.

Atari (arcade and console only)
Magnavox
Texas Instruments
Atrovision

Since "Atrovision" only got 9 hits on a google search, I'm assuming the name was supposed to be "Astrovision". Also, Taito seemed to appear twice for some reason.

Posted by: David Cary on September 25, 2004 01:09 AM | Permalink to Comment

Hey to whoever picked Namco too, not to get all fifth grade on you but umm I picked it first. Sorry, I might have been willing to switch but I've already worked on it a good bit and can't afford to go back and start over now.

Posted by: Matt Gaul on September 25, 2004 01:39 PM | Permalink to Comment

Ok, here's what I'm expecting based on your comments and the assignments I've made to specific students...

Kevin: Midway and Konami
Carlo: Nintendo.
Rohith: Namco Capcom
Jay: Sega
Christian: Activision and Taito
Luis: Coleco and Intellivision
Matt: Namco and Tengen
David: Williams and Gottelieb
Curtis: Atari
Mark: Magnavox and Astrovision

All the sites you use for your papers should be
added to delicious if they're not already there.

Posted by: Stephen Jacobs on September 26, 2004 09:29 PM | Permalink to Comment

You can now view my summary of Magnavox and Astrovision on my blog:

http://www.rit.edu/~mam3684/myblog/

Enjoy!

--mark

Posted by: Mark on October 4, 2004 07:26 PM | Permalink to Comment

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6929793723

Pretty much every system ever made, this is enough to open a store if someone had the money to buy! They even have some Bally Professional Arcades among other extermely rare systems.

--mark

Posted by: Mark on October 7, 2004 08:57 AM | Permalink to Comment