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PlayStation Earns An Emmy
Appropriate considering the PS1's 10 year anniversary, the PlayStation has been awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Advanced New Media. Eurogamer reports: 'When the concept for PlayStation was in its infancy in the early 1990s, we had a dream to elevate the quality of computer graphics from a 2D-based environment to a rich, realistic 3D experience,' said uberbigwig Ken Kutaragi. 'At the same time, we intended to bring in a new form of entertainment through the living room in a manner that would allow people all over the world to enjoy the pleasures of interactive entertainment ... Even with this lofty goal in mind, the achievement and market acceptance for PlayStation have exceeded my wildest expectations. We are honoured to be awarded a prestigious Emmy to commemorate the significant role PlayStation played in creating a new computer entertainment world."
Emmys were awards for TV shows.
Sega: For releasing the Saturn early, without a proper launch, at a huge price and with few games.
...oh...and Satan.
Nintendo: For endlessly delaying the underpowered N64 while we gained the majority of the market.
Yeah, Ken, too bad everyone else was ahead of you on that one.
http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/advanced_media_winn ers_release_2005.html
For "Development and Impact in 8-Bit Consoles," Atari won for the Atari 2600.
For "Development and Impact in Polygon Consoles," Sony won for the PS1.
For "Development of Multiplayer Console Technology," Microsoft won for XBOX Live.
I wouldn't give this any more merrit than the winners of the SpikeTV Video Game Awards.
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Atari, the makers of I Robot and Hard Drivin, say hello.
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Like 'most ferocious dragon costume' award going to some 3-year-old or 'best 17th century whore' to that chick that showed some leg.
Not knocking the award, just saying it comes off as one of those last-minute awards.
WTF? Nintendo didn't create the analog controller, but they certainly popularized its usage in console game systems. They didn't exactly create the 3D platformer either (there were a number of 3D platformers released at the same time), but theirs was the only one that featured unrestricted movement in most levels. (If I am wrong, correct me. I know Crash was on rails at least 90% of the time, and I think that NiGHTS was, too, but I might be wrong.)
I'm just having a hard time understanding how anyone could mod the grandparent insightful (an Emmy is worthless) gets modded insightful, while the parent gets modded as a troll.
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PSX sold thanks to its marketing. It began the long downfall of videogames thanks to TV ads, MTV ads, and supposedly "cool" games, while they tried to appeal to a "mature" audience. And by "mature", I mean 12-year-olds who thought they'd look badass because they didn't play mario games anymore.
Video games have now turned into something weird. You have people who base their manliness on what console they own. On a *toy*. And they keep swallowing that shit up!
So, yeah, emmy awards for ads. Maybe.
Back in 1977 the Academy split in two: The Academy and The National Academy. The regular ol' ATAS is the one that organizes the primetime emmy awards and the creative arts emmys. These cover all the primetime shows for both in front of and behind the camera folks.
The national academy (NATAS) controls all the regional sites. These are the ones that give out "local" emmy awards for things like your local TV news show. They are supposed to run the Daytime emmys but they screwed it up so badly one year that ATAS has to manage it for them in their name. In order to make money they have also created other emmy shows like the sports and news emmys.
There is also in international academy but that's a staff of like 3 people responsible for the totally ignored international emmy awards.
PS1 was the first system with a combination of software and hardware that rivals the arcades. Every other console before it tried to make arcade games or had arcade-like chipsets and didn't know what to do with it. CDrom had little to do it.
I was just sitting here enjoying myself playing games, and you have to come along and try to make it all mean something. If I wanted to be a soldier in an intractable war, I would've signed up for the military right off. Thanks for killing my buzz, asshole.
not true. there were plenty of arcade perfect ports to the SNES. even Mortal Kombat 2 was a pretty great port even if they axed a few frames of animation. everything else was arcade perfect. even a good deal of neo geo ports weren't really all toned down graphically. king of monsters and samauri showdown both come to mind. also, for what it is worth, the NES had a few arcade perfect ports as well. granted they were of older games, but still. this argument really hasn't had much clout, since the arcades are continually advancing whereas the console remains the same for 5 years. look at the tekken 3 port, for instance. instead of 3d backgrounds the psx version got a panoramic box with a graphic of the arcade's background for each side. I could go on, but my point is that while the psx was definately graphically superior (for a short period of time I might add) to both the arcade and the PC, this really didn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. Consider that in 1995 the arcade was already being laid out in the funeral parlor. After the mortal kombat and street fighter craze, things kind of started to die over the long haul. when killer instinct *cough* was the next greatest thing, it was the beginning of the end. now when I go to an arcade there are a bunch of driving games and gun games and of course, DDR or something like it. not much really new there.
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EVERY console that has been worth its salt has rivaled the arcades on release.
The Atari VCS was incredible when it came out, capable of quite accurate renditions of hits like Space Invaders and Bezerk. Sure, by the time Pac Man was popular (4 years later), it was faltering, but that's what happens.
The NES produced surprisingly accurate versions of arcade hits like Ikari Warriors, Super Dodge Ball and Double Dragon, just to name a few.
The Sega Genesis was BASED on Sega's System 16 arcade board, which was the platform for great games like Altered Beast, Alien Syndrome, Golden Axe and Shinobi (link has full games list). Even the later Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat ports were quite complete (but the graphics suffered due to the aging Genesis' limited color depth).
The SNES, that's already been well-covered by another poster.
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So you're telling me my playing of Pac Man on my VCS 2600 was all an illusion? Oh my god! I never suspected!