The 10 Best Nintendo Games You May Never Have Played

Dartball ... Dartball teams are usually formed by churches, often playing their games during fall and winter months in church basements or common areas... Dartball games can be very competitive; just as in baseball, the opposing team and its supporters may attempt to distract the "batter." In each match played there are three individual nine-inning games, with the exception of tie games in which extra inning games will be played... In some leagues, in order for a team to record a win, they must win at least two out of the three individual games...

Razer Switchblade ... The Switchblade's main goal is to provide gamers with the functionality of a Windows computer, combined with the portability of a handheld device. It features a multitouch LCD screen and an adaptive keyboard that changes keys depending on the game you play...

Role-playing Game Theory ... The Scandinavian RPG scene saw several opposing ideological camps about the nature and function of RPGs emerge, and began having regular conventions on live action role-playing games where RPG theory was featured prominently, called the Knutepunkt... In the 21st century, self-defined "Indie role-playing" communities such as the Forge grew on the internet, studying role-playing and developing the GNS Theory of role-playing games...

Tapwave Zodiac ... The product was designed to be a "high performance mobile entertainment system” centred on games, music, images, and video, aimed at 18 to 34 year old gamers and technology enthusiasts. By running an enhanced version of the Palm Operating System (5.2T), Zodiac also provided access to Palm’s personal information management software and many other applications from the Palm developer community...

Hartung Game Master ... It was also released in the UK as the Systema 2000 by already well established maker of cheap LCD games Systema... The Game Master utilizes a 40-pin cartridge port like the Supervision but is not compatible with Supervision games... Technical specifications CPU: NEC upd7810 Screen: 64 x 64 Low Resolution LCD Color: monochrome black/white tones Power Switch External Power Supply Jack (DC6V) Contrast Adjustment 4 Way directional pad Headphone jack (unit includes small stereo headphones) Speaker built-in A & B buttons Select button Start button Volume controller Dimensions: 170 x 97 x 33 mm Input: 40-pin cartridge slot Games Bomb Disposer Bubble Boy Car Racing Continental Galaxy Dungeon Adventure Falling Block Go Bang! Hyper Space Invader Kung Fu Move It Pin Ball S-Race Soccer (Fuss-Ball) Space Castle Tank War Tennis Urban Champion ...

North American Video Game Crash Of 1983 ... There were several reasons for the crash, but the main cause was supersaturation of the market with hundreds of mostly low-quality games which resulted in the loss of consumer confidence... Plethora of games and consoles At the time of the U. S crash, there were numerous consoles on the market, including the Atari 2600, the Atari 5200, the Bally Astrocade, the ColecoVision, the Coleco Gemini (a 2600 clone), the Emerson Arcadia 2001, the Fairchild Channel F System II, the Magnavox Odyssey2, the Mattel Intellivision (and its just-released update with several peripherals, the Intellivision II), the Sears Tele-Games systems (which included both 2600 and Intellivision clones), the TandyvisioN (an Intellivision clone for Radio Shack), and the Vectrex...

PlayStation Portable ... The PlayStation Portable is the only handheld video game console to use an optical disc format, Universal Media Disc (UMD), as its primary storage medium. Other distinguishing features of the console include its large viewing screen, robust multi-media capabilities, and connectivity with the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, other PSPs and the Internet...

History Of Video Game Consoles (sixth Generation) ... Games were still being produced for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube as of 2007, while Dreamcast games were officially discontinued in 2002... There were still a few games being produced for the Dreamcast in 2007, but they are essentially NAOMI arcade ports released only in Japan, with small print runs...

Redemption Game ... Redemption games can be seen as the modern successor to carnival games, as the same general principles apply... Legacy As revenue from traditional arcade games started to decline in the latter half of the 1990s due to competition from home game consoles and the Internet, arcade operators began to rely on the income from redemption and merchandiser games to remain profitable... These games were often much less expensive to purchase, and had a better return on investment than video games...

Role-playing Game ... The original form, sometimes called the tabletop RPG, is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing games (LARP) players physically perform their characters' actions... Several varieties of RPG also exist in electronic media, such as multi-player text-based MUDs and their graphics-based successors, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs)... Role-playing games also include single-player offline role-playing video games in which players control a character or team who undertake quests, and may include capabilities that advance using statistical mechanics...

Special Versions Of The Nintendo DS ... In Australia, the DS Lite was also only available in white (Polar White) at launch. On September 21, 2006, the Jet Black (Onyx) color was released...

Neo Geo Pocket Color ... The Neo Geo Pocket Color was designed to replace SNK's original Neo Geo Pocket monochrome handheld, which debuted in 1998 in Japan. In 2000, following SNK's purchase by Japanese pachinko manufacturer Aruze, the Neo Geo Pocket Color was dropped from both the North American and European markets...

N-Gage ... In 2005, Nokia announced that it would move its N-Gage games capabilities onto a series of smartphones... These devices have been available since early 2007, and a pre-release version of the N-Gage application allowing users to purchase and download games was made available for download from the official N-Gage website on February 4, 2008...

Gamate ... It never sold in numbers comparable to the Game Boy or even the Watara Supervision, and as a result information on the console and its games remains scarce - no emulator or ROM dumps exist... However, over 70 games are known to have been produced for the system, and a color version was rumoured to have been released in Asia and Mexico, but this has never been confirmed... Specifications CPU UMC UA6588F (earlier revision); NCR 81489, 8 bits (BIT WS39323F) in a QFP-100 shell (later revision) ROM 2 KB (UM6116M-2L CMOS static RAM, pin compatible with ROM/EPROM chips) RAM 16 KB (2 x CXK5864M-15L chips) of static RAM Size : 16.7 x 9.7 * 3.3 cm (6.58 x 3.82 x 1.3 inches) in grey plastic Keys D-pad, A, B, START and SELECT Screen LCD in 4 greyscale, 160 x 144 pixels Sound internal mono speaker, external stereo headphones Media ROM card, very similar to Hu-Card (PC-Engine), My Card (Sega SG-1000) and Sega Card (Sega Master System) 19x2 pins Input/Output Cartridge Slot...

Handheld Electronic Game ... Starting in 1980, Nintendo began to release a series of electronic games designed by Yokoi called the Game & Watch games... Taking advantage of the technology used in the credit-card-sized calculators that had appeared on the market, Yokoi designed the series of LCD-based games to include a digital time display in the corner of the screen...

Nintendo DS ... The Nintendo DS is the successor to the Game Boy Advance series of portable consoles, with the DS and DS Lite models featuring single-player backwards compatibility with Game Boy Advance games...