Console Wars

Description:

**From the Forward...** Nintendo was king of home videogame entertainment systems, then Sega came in and was a contender for the crown. Sega almost toppled Nintendo with their subversive and more adult-oriented games, and these games have led us to a world where GTA and Call of Duty are the top games, and the next step is to have the games incorporate stuff about us and our personal lives, and then sentient technology will inevitably disassociate from mankind and some robot like Skynet will rise up and destroy us all. Hence: the “Console Wars” between Nintendo and Sega is what began a series of events that will lead to the end of humanity as we know it.

subjects: Barbie,  Hot Wheels,  business,  entertainment,  Mattel,  Atari,  Nintendo,  ethics,  Sega,  NES,  Video games industry,  Video games,  Nintendō Kabushiki Kaisha,  Electronic games industry,  SEGA Entāpuraizesu,  History,  GAMES / Video & Electronic,  TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects,  Technology,  Social aspects,  GAMES,  Video & Electronic,  TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING,  SEGA Enta puraizesu,  Nintendo Kabushiki Kaisha

People: Tom Kalinske,  Hayao Nakayama,  Shinobu Toyoda,  Michael Katz

Places: Barcelona,  Hawaii,  Japan,  Tucson,  San Francisco

Times: 1960-1996