The amount of amazing franchises that exist on Nintendo consoles reads like a who’s who. This list includes Mario‚ Zelda‚ Star Fox‚ Metroid‚ Pikmin‚ Kirby‚ and‚ of course‚ Pokemon. For any kid who owned a Game Boy back in the day‚ they knew how much fun Pokemon was. It is a very popular franchise‚ but here are some unknown facts that are sure to blow your mind. FIRST FACT: POKEMON IS AN AMERICAN WORD Many of you probably thought that Pokemon was a Japanese word‚ but it is not. It was actually originally
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Trader Joe’s - a fascinate company Marianne Nguyen March 17‚ 2013 From a modern marketing point of view‚ grocery business and its stores are in “maturity and saturated stage” of the market-product life cycle. The aging of the baby boomer generation and the rising trend of healthy organic foods made way for Trader Joe’s‚ a less traditional grocery store with many more “hip” brands and innovations. Trader Joe’s is a fascinating company. It is privately owned and
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and 80s‚ talk shows and game shows shown on the television were popular. It was the new idea created to get people to watch television. It not only enthused them but kept them interested. During the 90s‚ certain game consoles came about such as the Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis which was the new revolution for video game boomers. Starting the 21st Century‚ new video game consoles‚ the internet‚ and cell phones became a big hit. People wanted faster‚ better‚ smaller. Video game graphics are more realistic
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Darius Pirtle English Comp 104-09 Room 155 12:00-12:50 09-16-2013 The Ultimate funny Moments I have a lot of funny things that has happened in my life really too many situations. From me peeing on myself when I was young‚ to my football pants ripping when I scored a touchdown my junior year in high school. I look back on all of my situations now and just laugh‚ because it’s not that serious to me no more. I have two favorite situations that have happened to me in my lifetime. One of my funniest
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I wrote a guide on how to run PlayStation 2 games on your computer using a console emulator. This time‚ I’m planning a tutorial un how to emulate GameCube games (PS2 rival) at decent speeds on your computer. This emulator is rumored to also play Nintendo Wii games‚ but I’ll make an update regarding that rumor as soon as I can confirm it. Now‚ for those of you that don’t know exactly what the GameCube is‚ you should know that the GC is a sixth generation console and direct competitor of the PlayStation
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Which system is better‚ Microsoft Xbox‚ Nintendo GameCube‚ or Sony PlayStation 2? Which system is the better buy? These are just some of the questions people ask themselves when it comes to purchasing one of these systems. In my opinion‚ I believe that the "best buy" is the PlayStation 2. The PS2 offers a reasonably powerful processor‚ about 297MHz (Megahertz). It may seem a little bit on the sluggish side compared to the processor of Xbox‚ about 733MHz‚ and to the GameCube processor‚ about
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Andrea Harris Dr. Zhang CosI 118 9/17/13 Can You Find Me Now? How is a Nintendo Wii game console able to determine the location of a Wii Remote while a player interacts with a game? The answer is triangulation‚ a process that determines the location of an object by measuring the angles from two or more fixed points. Surveyors often use triangulation to measure distance. Starting at a known location and elevation‚ surveyors measure a length to create a base line (Jains 30-48). The length
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Lucinda Merrilees-Adams 18027111 Seminar Tutor= Maurice Starkey Seminar held on= Thursday 13.00-14.00 Luxury Item= Golf Clubs Word count-2‚015 Analyse the business environment of manufacturing golf clubs The PESTEL model shown in the appendix at the end of this document highlights the different issues which affect the business environment for a golf club manufacturer. Within this document the three key issues which affect this business will be outlined and analysed. Within
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Sony’s Future Focus in the Video Game Industry The video game industry has gone through six generations of consoles‚ and the seventh is now underway with new consoles from Nintendo‚ Sony‚ and Microsoft. Atari led the first generation of the video game industry. They were able to create the first home video game Pong in 1972‚ and they were the first to develop the interchangeable cartridge and the joystick. The creation of the interchangeable cartridges allowed for third party independent video
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Rea Scott Lunder May 1‚ 2013 HT-MGT397J Reflection Paper I always heard stories from my dad about how great the 1970s and1980s were but I never could grasp what was so great about it. After interviewing my father about what made the 1980s unique‚ special‚ and different‚ I was really able to make a connection of how identical his description was to the one that took place in Ready Player One. After comparing the similarities between the two‚ I was
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