Monday, November 14, 2011
Video Game Hardware: Paper Idea
My paper will be on video game hardware. I will talk about how the game systems hardware evolved from two lines from opposite sides passing a little square to incredible detail cinematic gameplay. I would also include who was the first person to create hardware in order to play video games and then the people who improved the hardware over the years.
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Of course - one could list the major epochs of gaming hardware and the killer apps or games that made them popular. But I like your angle on the personalities and biographies of the individuals that made many of those contributions. If you can find a logical thread that goes beyond a mere list it will make a good research paper. And of course at some point you will run into a roadblock as game tech moves away from the single author/inventor into the world of the supercorporate. How to address that? Perhaps instead of incorporating all history - just focus on the individual creators who made an impact - and leave everything else out. It might be less comprehensive, but more logical, and something doable in ten pages.
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