As these games get more complex they also get more interesting and appealing. Video games are no longer just a diversion from work or a thirty minute escape from reality. They are quickly becoming an artistic form of expression for the programmers and developers, and a serious pastime activity for the players. One somewhat new game that shows this radical advancement and complexity of video games is “The Sims 3” by Electronic Arts, or EA. Physicist Willy Higinbotham was the first to create a video game in 1958.
Mario was one of the first arcade games you could take home that had the best 2-d graphics at the time. It also had a story line and the scenery would change in each level. Before it was simple one screen games like Pong and Pacman that never changed except Pacman where the lines in the maze would change and that was about it. It could be that he was one of the first games to be released and since has made many different types of games on many different platforms. He has released different games from platform, adventure, driving, some slight action ones.
MAC COMPUTERS’ BRAND PERSONALITY Mac computers have been around since 1982 as “simple” machines. In 1996 Apple started a campaign called “I’m a Mac…And I’m a PC” that used brand personality to sway people to buy Mac Computers over PC’s. Over 60 TV ads were aired in 2006 resulting in 42% market share growth (McNamara, 2011). If Mac were a person, Mac would be a trendy, creative, handsome, man in his early 30’s, not to old but old enough to be knowledgeable in his job, and fun. He would be laid back, the jeans and t-shirt sort, completely down to earth.
In October 1994, Dr. Nicely contacted Intel support to report the flaw found within their Pentium chip. Due to Intel’s lack of responsibility into addressing and correcting the flaw, Dr. Nicely decided to send an email to several people addressing his discovery of the Pentium “bug”. The email spreads quickly among the computer/ Internet community, one of those who received it was Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap software in Cambridge, MA (Emery, 1996). Phar Lap’s programmers test the error and verified the flaw. This causes Smith to forward Dr. Nicely’s email to Microsoft,
Contributions As a young industrialist, Michael Dell recognized that addressing and anticipating the consumer’s needs was the answer to a successful company. While attending college Dell ventured into the computer industry and brought this customer-service strategy forward as it laid the basic foundation towards the creation of a multi-billion dollar company as evidenced seven years later by becoming a Fortune 500 Company (Krames, 2003, p. 58). Unlike other computer companies, Dell continued to sharpened his focus on the consumer’s requirements instead of selling his products through computer stores, which was uncommon during this period, forced Dell’s rivals to rethink their strategy to combat Dell’s hold on the market. Interestingly enough Krames (2003) provides insight that Dell’s marketing approach towards “mass customization” (p. 49) was the result of good-natured customer service and forward thinking. Coupled with the ability to plan ahead and
BLOCKBUSTER WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT #1 Submitted to: Ms. Violet Christopher Submitted by: Christopher Allen Peek March 10, 2011 MGT 101 ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE Not too long ago Blockbuster was on top of the world, they were the golden age for the video store. They had the movie rental business in the palm of their hand. But after a series of mistakes and unwillingness to see were the future was taking them now threatens to bankrupt them completely. Blockbuster didn’t have a good Business model or strategy. They didn’t plan or analyze what the general environment was doing and were it could take them.
Major problem What strategy should Mr. Wayne Huizenga implement to enable Blockbuster cope with the changes in the video-rental environment? In 1989 blockbuster has capitalized on its image as “America’s Family Video Store”. In 1990 Blockbuster’s success can be rooted down from its working principle as at fast service, convenient locations, family orientation, and kids appeal. But in 1992 blockbuster has jumped into diversification by acquiring several businesses. It has bought two music retail chains, two television studios, a company that runs children’s playground, invested $600 million in a bid to buy Paramount communication, and is already in renting video games and virtual reality goggles.
At the height of the movie rental industry revenues hit $11.6 billion (“Video Tape Rental” 2012). Blockbuster Video was the largest video rental company in the US and around the world until it was bought by Dish Network in 2011 (Sakthi Prasad 2011). The movie rental industry was attacked by digital rentals since pay per view emerged, but it wasn’t until digital rentals online became popular that any real dent was made in the video rental revenues. Netflix emerged with a new concept of renting DVD’s via mail order with no late fees and as long as a customer desired to have the DVD. Their business concept included a subscription with unlimited rentals at one movie at a time.
Kenneth Fagan English 1010 Professor Jones 27/11/2012 Ever since their inception, decades of research have been done on the effects of violent video games on its players. Video games are a form of entertainment originated in the 1970’s with the invention of the Atari gaming system by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who had also refined some early prototypes of video game systems like a coin-operated game called Spacewar! and Galaxy Game. Video games would continue to evolve through the years through mainframe and home computer systems, and now encompass the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, among others. Considering the explosive rise to prominence that video games had, people began to become concerned with the effects, if any, of video games on the health, behavior, and social skills of adolescents.
Algebra 2 Algebra 2 Pascal Investigation (5.7) 1. Who was Blaise Pascal (history)? Blaise Pascal, famous mathematician, was born in 1623 on June 19th, at Clermont. His father moved the family to Paris in the year 1631 to conduct his own scientific investigation as well as to pass on his knowledge to him only son. At first, young Pascal’s education did involve mathematics, only the study of languages. Pascal decided to learn about geometry, a topic he had only heard of but never studied, in his spare time.