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331 relations: AA battery, ABC News (United States), Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Accelerometer, Activision Blizzard, Adobe Flash Player, Amazon Prime Video, American Heart Association, Analog stick, API, Apple Inc., Arcade game, Ars Technica, Associated Press, ATI Technologies, Backward compatibility, Balance (ability), Balance board, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Battalion Wars 2, BBC, BBC iPlayer, BBC News, BBC News Online, Bloomberg Businessweek, Blue Ocean Strategy, Bluetooth, Broadway (processor), Canada, Capcom, Center of mass, Central processing unit, Cerebral palsy, China, Citigroup Global Markets Japan, Class action, Classic Controller, Clean room design, CNET, CNN, Code name, Codemasters, Colorado, Commercial off-the-shelf, Commodore 64, Compact disc, Component video, Composite video, Computer and Video Games, Computer mouse, ... Expand index (281 more) »
- 2000s in video gaming
- 2006 in video gaming
- 2010s in video gaming
- Backward-compatible video game consoles
- Computer-related introductions in 2006
- Seventh-generation video game consoles
- Wii hardware
AA battery
The AA battery (or double-A battery) is a standard size single cell cylindrical dry battery.
ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States.
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Accelerometer
An accelerometer is a device that measures the proper acceleration of an object.
Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California.
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Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) is a discontinuedExcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.
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American Heart Association
The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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Analog stick
An analog stick (analogue stick in British English), also known as control stick, joystick or thumbstick, is an input device for a controller (often a game controller) that is used for two-dimensional input.
API
An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op game is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.
Ars Technica
Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc., commonly called ATI, was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets.
Backward compatibility
In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.
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Balance (ability)
Balance in biomechanics, is an ability to maintain the line of gravity (vertical line from centre of mass) of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway.
Balance board
A balance board is a device used as a circus skill, for recreation, balance training, athletic training, brain development, therapy, musical training and other kinds of personal development.
Bandai Namco Entertainment
is a Japanese multinational video game publisher owned by Bandai Namco Holdings.
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Battalion Wars 2
Battalion Wars 2, released as in Japan, is a 2007 real-time tactics game developed by Kuju London and published by Nintendo for the Wii.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC iPlayer
BBC iPlayer (stylised as iPLAYER or BBC iPLAYER) is a video on demand service from the BBC.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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BBC News Online
BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.
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Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy is a book published in 2005 written by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, professors at INSEAD, and the name of the marketing theory detailed on the book.
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Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).
Broadway (processor)
Broadway is the codename of the 32-bit central processing unit (CPU) used in Nintendo's Wii home video game console. Wii and Broadway (processor) are wii hardware.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Capcom
is a Japanese video game company.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero.
Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor, or just processor, is the most important processor in a given computer.
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Cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Citigroup Global Markets Japan
is the division of Citigroup that operates in Japan.
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Class action
A class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member or members of that group.
Classic Controller
The is a game controller produced by Nintendo for the Wii home video game console.
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Clean room design
Clean-room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the original design.
CNET
CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Code name
A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person.
Codemasters
The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer and former publisher based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts and managed under EA Sports division.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
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Commercial off-the-shelf
Commercial-off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of custom-made, or bespoke, solutions.
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Commodore 64
The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, January 7–10, 1982, in Las Vegas).
Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
Component video
Component video is an analog video signal that has been split into two or more component channels.
Composite video
Composite video is an baseband analog video format that typically carries a 415, 525 or 625 line interlaced black and white or color signal, on a single channel, unlike the higher-quality S-Video (two channels) and the even higher-quality component video (three or more channels).
Computer and Video Games
Computer and Video Games (also known as CVG, Computer & Video Games, C&VG, Computer + Video Games, or C+VG) was a UK-based video game magazine, published in its original form between 1981 and 2004.
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Computer mouse
A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song.
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation.
D-pad
A D-pad (short for directional pad) is a flat, typically thumb-operated, directional control.
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Dance Dance Revolution
(DDR) is a music video game series produced by Konami.
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Data-rate units
In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.
Der Spiegel
(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.
Destructoid
Destructoid is a website that was founded as a video game-focused blog in March 2006 by Yanier Gonzalez, a Cuban-American cartoonist and author.
Digital distribution
Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.
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Digital distribution of video games
In the video game industry, digital distribution is the process of delivering video game content as digital information, without the exchange or purchase of new physical media such as ROM cartridges, magnetic storage, optical discs and flash memory cards.
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Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor chip, with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.
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Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.
Dolphin (emulator)
Dolphin is a free and open-source video game console emulator for GameCube and Wii that runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Series S. It had its inaugural release in 2003 as freeware for Windows.
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Donkey Kong (1981 video game)
is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo.
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DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.
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DVD-Audio
DVD-Audio (commonly abbreviated as DVD-A) is a digital format for delivering high-fidelity audio content on a DVD.
DVD-Video
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs.
E3
E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) was an annual trade event for the video game industry organized and presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Wii and e3 are 2000s in video gaming and 2010s in video gaming.
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E3 2009
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 (E3 2009) was the 15th E3 held.
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E3 2011
The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 (E3 2011) was the 17th E3 held.
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Edge (magazine)
Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc.
Electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Electronic Gaming Monthly
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) is a monthly American video game magazine.
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Engadget
Engadget is a technology news, reviews and analysis website offering daily coverage of gadgets, consumer electronics, video games, gaming hardware, apps, social media, streaming, AI, space, robotics, electric vehicles and other potentially consumer-facing technology.
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Eurogamer
Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.
Everybody Votes Channel
The Everybody Votes Channel was a Wii Menu channel that allowed users to vote in simple opinion polls and compare and contrast opinions with those of friends, family and voters around the globe.
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ExtremeTech
ExtremeTech is a technology weblog, launched in June 2001, which focuses on hardware, computer software, science and other technologies.
Factor 5
Factor 5 GmbH is an independent software and video game developer.
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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
is a Wii and Nintendo DS action role-playing game in the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series developed by Square Enix.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
Firmware
In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.
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Flash memory
Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.
Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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Fortune (magazine)
Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.
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Foxconn
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.
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Free Radical Design
Free Radical Design Ltd. was a British video game developer based in Nottingham.
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Game controller
A game controller, gaming controller, or simply controller, is an input device or input/output device used with video games or entertainment systems to provide input to a video game.
Game Critics Awards
The Game Critics Awards were a set of annual awards held after the E3 video game conference since 1998.
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Game demo
A game demo is a trial version of a video game that is limited to a certain time period or a point in progress.
Game Developer (website)
Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.
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Game Developers Conference
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers.
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Game Informer
Game Informer (GI) is an American monthly video game magazine featuring articles, news, strategy, and reviews of video games and associated consoles. Wii and game Informer are Spike Video Game Award winners.
GameCube
The is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. Wii and GameCube are 2000s toys, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
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GameCube accessories
GameCube accessories include first-party releases from Nintendo, and third-party devices, since the GameCube's launch in 2001.
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GameCube controller
The GameCube controller is the standard game controller for the GameCube home video game console, manufactured by Nintendo and launched in 2001.
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GameCube online functionality
The GameCube is one of Nintendo's home video game consoles and part of the sixth generation of video game consoles.
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Gamer
A gamer is a someone who plays interactive games, either video games, tabletop role-playing games, skill-based card games, or any combination thereof, and who often plays for extended periods of time.
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Gamer Network
Gamer Network Limited (formerly Eurogamer Network Limited) is a British digital media company based in Brighton.
GameSpot
GameSpot is an American video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information on video games. Wii and GameSpot are Spike Video Game Award winners.
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GameSpy
GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas.
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Gamurs
The GAMURS Group, simply known as Gamurs, is an esports media and entertainment publisher.
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GDDR3 SDRAM
GDDR3 SDRAM (Graphics Double Data Rate 3 SDRAM) is a type of DDR SDRAM specialized for graphics processing units (GPUs) offering less access latency and greater device bandwidths.
Gekko (processor)
Gekko is a superscalar out-of-order 32-bit PowerPC microprocessor custom-made by IBM in 2000 for Nintendo to use as the CPU in their sixth generation game console, the GameCube, and later the Triforce Arcade Board.
Genyo Takeda
is a retired Japanese game designer and executive who worked for the video game company Nintendo.
Gesture recognition
Gesture recognition is an area of research and development in computer science and language technology concerned with the recognition and interpretation of human gestures.
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Giant Bomb
Giant Bomb is an American video game website and wiki that includes personality-driven gaming videos, commentary, news, and reviews, created by former GameSpot editors Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis.
Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.
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Glossary of video game terms
This is a non-comprehensive list that includes terms used in video games and the video game industry, as well as slang used by players.
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Golden Joystick Awards
The Golden Joystick Awards, also known as the People's Gaming Awards, is a video game award ceremony; it awards the best video games of the year, as voted for originally by the British general public, but is now a global event that can be voted online via GamesRadar+.
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Graphics processing unit
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.
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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is a 2007 rhythm game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision.
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Gyroscope
A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular velocity.
Handheld game console
A handheld game console, or simply handheld console, is a small, portable self-contained video game console with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers.
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Heart rate monitor
A heart rate monitor (HRM) is a personal monitoring device that allows one to measure/display heart rate in real time or record the heart rate for later study.
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Hertz
The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.
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Hideo Kojima
is a Japanese video game designer.
High-definition television
High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies.
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High-definition video
High-definition video (HD video) is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition.
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Hiroshi Yamauchi
was a Japanese businessman and the third president of Nintendo, joining the company on 25 April 1949 until stepping down on 24 May 2002, being succeeded by Satoru Iwata.
History of Nintendo
The history of Nintendo is from 1889 to the present, starting as a playing-card company to eventually becoming a multinational video game conglomerate.
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Hollywood (graphics chip)
The Hollywood graphics chip is the graphics processing unit (GPU) used in Nintendo's Wii video game console. Wii and Hollywood (graphics chip) are wii hardware.
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Home video game console
A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. Wii and home video game console are home video game consoles.
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Homebrew (video games)
Homebrew, when applied to video games, refers to software produced by hobbyists for proprietary video game consoles which are not intended to be user-programmable.
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Houston Chronicle
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.
Hulu
Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
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IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.11 is part of the IEEE 802 set of local area network (LAN) technical standards, and specifies the set of medium access control (MAC) and physical layer (PHY) protocols for implementing wireless local area network (WLAN) computer communication.
IEEE 802.11b-1999
IEEE 802.11b-1999 or 802.11b is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless networking specification that extends throughout up to 11 Mbit/s using the same 2.4 GHz band.
IEEE 802.11g-2003
IEEE 802.11g-2003 or 802.11g is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 specification that operates in the 2.4 GHz microwave band.
IGN
IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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Inch
The inch (symbol: in or pprime) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.
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Indie game
An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games.
Infrared
Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.
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Input/output
In computing, input/output (I/O, i/o, or informally io or IO) is the communication between an information processing system, such as a computer, and the outside world, such as another computer system, peripherals, or a human operator.
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
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Internet meme
An Internet meme, or simply meme, is a cultural item (such as an idea, behaviour, or style) that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms.
IPod
The iPod is a discontinued series of portable media players and multi-purpose mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first version was released on November 10, 2001, about months after the Macintosh version of iTunes was released.
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IQue
iQue, Ltd. is a Chinese video game/game localization and support development company located in Suzhou.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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Jeff Gerstmann
Jeff Gerstmann (born August 1, 1975) is an American video game journalist.
Joystiq
Joystiq was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL.
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Julian Eggebrecht
Julian Eggebrecht is a German video game businessman.
Just Dance (video game series)
Just Dance is a rhythm game series developed and published by Ubisoft.
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Just Dance 2020
Just Dance 2020 is a 2019 dance rhythm game developed and published by Ubisoft.
Kazumi Totaka
is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who is best known for his various compositions in many Nintendo games.
Keep case
A keep case or poly-box is a type of packaging, most commonly used with DVDs and Blu-ray videos (and sometimes CDs).
Keyboard technology
The technology of computer keyboards includes many elements.
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Killer application
A killer application (often shortened to killer app) is any software that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as its host computer hardware, video game console, software platform, or operating system.
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Kilogram
The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.
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Kinect
Kinect is a discontinued line of motion sensing input devices produced by Microsoft and first released in 2010.
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Kodansha USA
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC is a publishing company based in New York, US, and a subsidiary of Japan's largest publishing company Kodansha.
Kotaku
Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.
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Law360
Law360 is a subscription-based, legal news service based in New York City.
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it.
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List of best-selling game consoles
A video game console is a standardized computing device tailored for video gaming.
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List of streaming media services
A streaming media service (also simply called a streaming service) is an online platform that allows users to watch or listen to content, such as movies, TV shows, music, or podcasts, over the internet.
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List price
The list price, also known as the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP), or the recommended retail price (RRP), or the suggested retail price (SRP) of a product is the price at which its manufacturer notionally recommends that a retailer sell the product.
Local area network
A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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Macworld
Macworld is a digital magazine and website dedicated to products and software of Apple Inc., published by Foundry, a subsidiary of IDG.
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Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
is a 2011 crossover sports and party game developed by Sega Japan.
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Mario (franchise)
is a Japanese multimedia franchise created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto for video game company Nintendo, which produces and publishes its installments.
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart DS is a 2005 kart racing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console.
Mario Kart Wii
is a 2008 kart racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii.
Masahiro Sakurai
is a Japanese video game director and game designer best known as the creator of the Kirby and Super Smash Bros. series.
Master System
The is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console manufactured and developed by Sega. Wii and Master System are discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
Matt Casamassina
Matt Casamassina is a video game journalist, businessman, and novelist, and a founding editor of IGN.
McGraw Hill Education
McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.
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MCV/Develop
MCV/Develop (formerly MCV and Market for Computer & Video Games) is a UK trade magazine that focuses on the business aspects of the video game industry.
Megabyte
The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
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MEMS
MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems) is the technology of microscopic devices incorporating both electronic and moving parts.
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Metroid
is an action-adventure game franchise created by Nintendo.
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is a 2007 action-adventure game developed by Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Wii.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Mii
A Mii is a customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile apps. Wii and Mii are computer-related introductions in 2006.
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Millimetre
Different lengths as in respect to the electromagnetic spectrum, measured by the metre and its derived scales. The microwave is between 1 meter to 1 '''millimeter'''. The millimetre (international spelling; SI unit symbol mm) or millimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.
MIT Press
The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university.
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Modchip
A modchip (short for modification chip) is a small electronic device used to alter or disable artificial restrictions of computers or entertainment devices.
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Motion controller
In computing, a motion controller is a type of input device that uses accelerometers, gyroscopes, cameras, or other sensors to track motion.
Motion detection
Motion detection is the process of detecting a change in the position of an object relative to its surroundings or a change in the surroundings relative to an object.
MSX
MSX is a standardized home computer architecture, announced by ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983.
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Musculoskeletal injury
Musculoskeletal injury refers to damage of muscular or skeletal systems, which is usually due to a strenuous activity and includes damage to skeletal muscles, bones, tendons, joints, ligaments, and other affected soft tissues.
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Neo Geo (system)
The, stylized as NEO•GEO and also written as NEOGEO, is a ROM cartridge-based arcade system board and fourth-generation home video game console released on April 26, 1990, by Japanese game company SNK Corporation. Wii and Neo Geo (system) are 2000s toys, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
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Network interface controller
A network interface controller (NIC, also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and physical network interface) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.
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New Play Control!
is a series of first-party GameCube games ported to the Wii by Nintendo.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
is a 2009 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii.
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Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
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Nintendo 64
The (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. Wii and Nintendo 64 are 2000s toys, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
Nintendo DS
The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005. Wii and Nintendo DS are 2000s toys, 2010s toys, backward-compatible video game consoles, seventh-generation video game consoles and Spike Video Game Award winners.
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo. Wii and Nintendo Entertainment System are 2000s in video gaming, 2000s toys, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
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Nintendo Gamer
Nintendo Gamer was a magazine published in the United Kingdom which mainly covered Nintendo video game consoles and software.
Nintendo Integrated Research & Development
commonly abbreviated as Nintendo IRD, was a Japanese developments division that handled everything related to producing Nintendo's console hardware and associated peripherals.
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Nintendo optical discs
Nintendo optical discs are physical media used to distribute video games on three of Nintendo's consoles that followed the Nintendo 64.
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Nintendo Selects
Nintendo Selects (and its predecessor, Player's Choice) is a marketing label previously used by Nintendo to promote best-selling video games on Nintendo game consoles.
Nintendo Switch
The is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Wii and Nintendo Switch are 2010s toys and home video game consoles.
Nintendo video game consoles
The Japanese multinational consumer electronics company Nintendo has developed seven home video game consoles and multiple portable consoles for use with external media, as well as dedicated consoles and other hardware for their consoles.
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Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (sometimes shortened to Nintendo WFC) was an online multiplayer gaming service run by Nintendo that formerly provided free online play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games.
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Nintendo Zone
Nintendo Zone was a download service and an extension of the DS Download Station.
Official Nintendo Magazine
Official Nintendo Magazine, or ONM, was a British video game magazine that ran from 2006 to 2014 that covered the Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and Wii U video game consoles released by Nintendo.
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Opera (web browser)
Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera.
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Optical disc
An optical disc is a flat, usuallyNon-circular optical discs exist for fashion purposes; see shaped compact disc.
Paramount Network
Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.
Parental controls
Parental controls are features which may be included in digital television services, computers and video games, mobile devices and software that allow parents to restrict the access of content to their children.
Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.
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Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
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PC World
PC World (stylized as PCWorld) is a global computer magazine published monthly by IDG.
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PCMag
PC Magazine (shortened as PCMag) is an American computer magazine published by Ziff Davis.
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Physical therapy
Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is a healthcare profession, as well as the care provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through patient education, physical intervention, disease prevention, and health promotion.
PlayStation (console)
The (abbreviated as PS, commonly known as the PS1/PS one or its codename PSX) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Wii and PlayStation (console) are 2000s toys, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
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PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. Wii and PlayStation 2 are 2000s in video gaming, 2000s toys, 2010s toys, backward-compatible video game consoles, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
PlayStation 3
The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia. Wii and PlayStation 3 are 2000s toys, 2006 in video gaming, 2010s toys, backward-compatible video game consoles, computer-related introductions in 2006, discontinued video game consoles, home video game consoles, products introduced in 2006 and seventh-generation video game consoles.
PlayStation 4
The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Wii and PlayStation 4 are 2010s toys and home video game consoles.
PlayStation Move
is a motion game controller developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
PlayStation Network
PlayStation Network (PSN) is a digital media entertainment service provided by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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Pointing device
A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer.
Pokémon (video game series)
is a series of video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company under the Pokémon media franchise.
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Pokémon Battle Revolution
is a turn-based strategy video game in the Pokémon series developed by Genius Sonority and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo.
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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
and are role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS in 2006.
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Polygon (website)
Polygon is an American entertainment website by Vox Media covering video games, movies, television, and other popular culture.
Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.
Porting
In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library).
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Pound (mass)
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.
Power supply
A power supply is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load.
PowerPC
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.
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Proprietary hardware
Proprietary hardware is computer hardware whose interface is controlled by the proprietor, often under patent or trade-secret protection.
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RCA connector
The RCA connector is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry audio and video signals.
Red Steel
Red Steel is a first-person shooter video game published by Ubisoft for Nintendo's Wii console.
Reggie Fils-Aimé
Reginald Fils-Aimé (born March 25, 1961) is an American businessman best known for being the president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, the North American branch of the Japanese video game company Nintendo, from 2006 to 2019.
Regional lockout
A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory.
Retro City Rampage
Retro City Rampage is an action-adventure game developed by Vblank Entertainment.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
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Reverse engineering
Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.
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Rhythm game
Rhythm game or rhythm action is a genre of music-themed action video game that challenges a player's sense of rhythm.
S-Video
S-Video (also known as separate video, Y/C, and erroneously Super-Video) is an analog video signal format that carries standard-definition video, typically at 525 lines or 625 lines.
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Satoru Iwata
was a Japanese businessman, video game programmer, video game designer, and producer.
SCART
SCART (also known as italic or italic, especially in France, 21-pin EuroSCART in marketing by Sharp in Asia, Euroconector in Spain, EuroAV or EXT, or EIA Multiport in the United States, as an EIA interface) is a French-originated standard and associated 21-pin connector for connecting audio-visual (AV) equipment.
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SD card
Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format the SD Association (SDA) developed for use in portable devices.
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Sega
is a Japanese multinational video game company and subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
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Sega Genesis
The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. Wii and Sega Genesis are backward-compatible video game consoles and home video game consoles.
Seventh generation of video game consoles
The seventh generation of home video game consoles began on November 22, 2005, with the release of Microsoft's Xbox 360 home console. Wii and seventh generation of video game consoles are 2000s in video gaming, 2000s toys, 2010s in video gaming, 2010s toys and seventh-generation video game consoles.
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Shakedown: Hawaii
Shakedown: Hawaii is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Canadian studio Vblank Entertainment.
Shaun White Snowboarding
Shaun White Snowboarding is a snowboarding video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The Wii version of the game is titled "Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip". Wii and Shaun White Snowboarding are Spike Video Game Award winners.
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Shigeru Miyamoto
is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors as an executive since 2002.
Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.
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Skate It
Skate It is a skateboarding video game developed by EA Black Box, EA Montreal, and Exient Entertainment for the Nintendo DS, Wii, and iOS.
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Sony
, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (SIE) is a Japanese-American multinational video game and digital entertainment company of Sony.
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Square Enix
is a Japanese multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate.
Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director.
Stroke
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.
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Super Mario
(also known as and) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario.
Super Mario Bros.
is a platform game developed and published in 1985 by Nintendo for the Famicom in Japan and for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America.
Super Mario Galaxy
is a 2007 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii. Wii and Super Mario Galaxy are Spike Video Game Award winners.
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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is a platform game developed and published by Sega, the seventh title in the Super Monkey Ball series, following Super Monkey Ball Adventure.
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Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America. Wii and Super Nintendo Entertainment System are 2000s toys, discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros.
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System on a chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC; pl. SoCs) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system.
TechRadar
TechRadar is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.
Television advertisement
A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.
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Television channel
A television channel, or TV channel, is a terrestrial frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed.
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Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle.
Tennis elbow
Tennis elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis or enthesopathy of the extensor carpi radialis origin, is an enthesopathy (attachment point disease) of the origin of the extensor carpi radialis brevis on the lateral epicondyle. The outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender.
The BMJ
The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal, published by BMJ Group, which in turn is wholly-owned by the British Medical Association (BMA).
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Legend of Zelda
is an action-adventure game franchise created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
is a 2006 action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube and Wii.
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The Motley Fool
The Motley Fool is a private financial and investing advice company based in Alexandria, Virginia.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Register
The Register is a British technology news website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee and John Lettice.
The Sims
The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts.
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The Verge
The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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TikTok
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.
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Tokyo Game Show
, commonly known as TGS, is a video game trade fair and convention held annually in September in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan.
Touchscreen
A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of display that can detect touch input from a user.
TurboGrafx-16
The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. Wii and TurboGrafx-16 are discontinued video game consoles and home video game consoles.
X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
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Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere.
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Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.
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VentureBeat
VentureBeat is an American technology website headquartered in San Francisco, California.
VG247
VG247 (previously videogaming247) is a video game blog published in the United Kingdom, founded in February 2008 by industry veteran Patrick Garratt.
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Video game console
A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.
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Video game console emulator
A video game console emulator is a type of emulator that allows a computing device to emulate a video game console's hardware and play its games on the emulating platform.
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Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games.
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Video Games Chronicle
Video Games Chronicle (VGC is a British entertainment website covering video games published independently by 1981 Media.
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Virtual Console
The Virtual Console is a defunct line of downloadable video games for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.
Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world.
Whiteboard
A whiteboard (also known by the terms marker board, dry-erase board, dry-wipe board, and pen-board) is a glossy, usually white surface for making non-permanent markings.
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.
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Wii Balance Board
The is an accessory for the Wii and Wii U video game consoles.
Wii Fit
is a 2007 exergaming video game designed by Nintendo's Hiroshi Matsunaga for the Wii home video game console, featuring a variety of yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance mini-games for use with the Wii Balance Board peripheral.
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Wii MotionPlus
The is an expansion device for the Wii Remote, the primary game controller for the Wii.
Wii Party
Wii Party is a party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console.
Wii Play
Wii Play is a party video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii console.
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Wii Remote
The Wii Remote, informally referred to with the portmanteau Wiimote, is the primary game controller for Nintendo's Wii home video game console. Wii and wii Remote are products introduced in 2006.
Wii Shop Channel
The Wii Shop Channel is a discontinued digital distribution service for the Wii video game console.
Wii Sports
Wii Sports is a 2006 sports simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console.
Wii Sports Resort
Wii Sports Resort is a 2009 sports simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console and is the sequel to Wii Sports.
Wii system software
The Wii system software is a discontinued set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii home video game console.
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Wii U
The Wii U is a home video game console developed by Nintendo as the successor to the Wii. Wii and Wii U are 2010s toys, backward-compatible video game consoles, discontinued video game consoles, home video game consoles and wii hardware.
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Wii U GamePad
The Wii U GamePad is the standard game controller for Nintendo's Wii U home video game console.
WiiConnect24
WiiConnect24 is a discontinued feature of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for the Wii.
WiiWare
WiiWare was a service that allowed Wii users to download games and applications specifically designed and developed for the Wii video game console made by Nintendo.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
Will Wright (game designer)
William Ralph Wright (born January 20, 1960) is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
Xbox (console)
The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles. Wii and Xbox (console) are home video game consoles.
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. Wii and Xbox 360 are 2000s toys, 2010s toys, backward-compatible video game consoles, home video game consoles and seventh-generation video game consoles.
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Xbox Live Arcade
Xbox Live Arcade (or XBLA) was a video game digital distribution service that was available for the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles.
Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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YPbPr
YPbPr or Y'PbPr, also written as, is a color space used in video electronics, in particular in reference to component video cables.
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Yuji Horii
is a Japanese author, video game designer, writer and director best known as the creator of the Dragon Quest franchise, supervising and writing the scenario for Chrono Trigger, and The Portopia Serial Murder Case, released in 1983 as one of the first visual novel adventure games.
ZDNET
ZDNET is a business technology news website owned and operated by Red Ventures.
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1080p
1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced.
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180 nm process
The 180 nm process is a MOSFET (CMOS) semiconductor process technology that was commercialized around the 1998–2000 timeframe by leading semiconductor companies, starting with TSMC and Fujitsu, then followed by Sony, Toshiba, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments and IBM.
1T-SRAM
1T-SRAM is a pseudo-static random-access memory (PSRAM) technology introduced by MoSys, Inc. in September 1998, which offers a high-density alternative to traditional static random-access memory (SRAM) in embedded memory applications.
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1Up Network
1Up.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.
480i
480i is the video mode used for standard-definition digital video in the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Western Sahara, and most of the Americas (with the exception of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
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480p
480p is the shorthand name for a family of video display resolutions.
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4Gamer.net
4Gamer.net is a Japanese video game website operated by Aetas Inc.
576i
576i is a standard-definition digital video mode, originally used for digitizing analogue television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz.
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90 nm process
The 90 nm process refers to the technology used in semiconductor manufacturing to create integrated circuits with a minimum feature size of 90 nanometers.
See also
2000s in video gaming
- 2000 in video gaming
- 2000s in video games
- 2001 in video gaming
- 2002 in video gaming
- 2003 in video gaming
- 2004 in video gaming
- 2005 in video gaming
- 2006 in video gaming
- 2007 in video gaming
- 2008 in video gaming
- 2009 in video gaming
- Capcom Five
- E3
- Fifth generation of video game consoles
- Fourth generation of video game consoles
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- PlayStation 2
- Seventh generation of video game consoles
- Sixth generation of video game consoles
- Wii
- Xbox
2006 in video gaming
- 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
- 2006 in esports
- 2006 in video games
- 2006 video games
- 3rd British Academy Games Awards
- Boatmurdered
- Entertainment Software Ass'n v. Foti
- Play! A Video Game Symphony
- PlayStation 3
- Truth in Video Game Rating Act
- Video Game Decency Act
- Wii
2010s in video gaming
- 2010 in video gaming
- 2010s in video games
- 2011 in video gaming
- 2012 in video gaming
- 2014 in video gaming
- 2015 in video gaming
- 2016 in video gaming
- 2018 in video gaming
- 2019 in video gaming
- Analogue Nt
- E3
- Eighth generation of video game consoles
- List of Nintendo 3DS games
- Loot box
- Mixer (service)
- Nintendo Direct
- Seventh generation of video game consoles
- Sixth generation of video game consoles
- Toys-to-life
- Wii
- Xbox
Backward-compatible video game consoles
- Atari 7800
- Atari XEGS
- Game Boy Advance
- Game Boy Advance SP
- Game Boy Color
- LaserActive
- Leapster Explorer
- Neo Geo Pocket Color
- New Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo 2DS
- Nintendo 3DS
- Nintendo DS
- Nintendo DS Lite
- Nintendo DSi
- PlayStation 2
- PlayStation 3
- PlayStation 5
- Polymega
- Retro Duo
- Sega Genesis
- Super Retro Trio
- Wii
- Wii U
- Xbox 360
- Xbox 360 technical specifications
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X and Series S
Computer-related introductions in 2006
- A9home
- Blu-ray
- Classmate PC
- Colemak
- Conroe (microprocessor)
- Definition of Free Cultural Works
- Dell Inspiron E1405
- EVO Smart Console
- ExFAT
- FRBRoo
- GeForce 8 series
- HP Compaq tc4400
- HP Pavilion dv2000 series
- HP Pavilion dv6000 series
- HP Pavilion dv9000 series
- IBM Watson
- IMac (Intel-based)
- Intel Core
- Intel Core (microarchitecture)
- Intel Core 2
- Lenovo 3000
- Mac Pro
- MacBook
- MacBook (2006–2012)
- MacBook Pro
- MacBook Pro (Intel-based)
- Mii
- Minimig
- Office Open XML file formats
- P535
- Pentium Dual-Core
- PlayStation 3
- Power ISA
- RIKEN MDGRAPE-3
- Sony Vaio AR series
- Sony Vaio C series
- Sony Vaio SZ series
- Sony Vaio UX Micro PC
- Strategic Content Alliance
- ThinkPad T60
- ThinkPad T61
- Tianhua GX-1C
- Wii
- Yonah (microprocessor)
Seventh-generation video game consoles
- Caanoo
- Dingoo
- EVO Smart Console
- GP2X
- GP2X Wiz
- Game Gadget
- Game Wave Family Entertainment System
- Gizmondo
- HYDRA Game Development Kit
- HyperScan
- Leapster Explorer
- MoMA Eve
- N-Gage (service)
- Nintendo DS
- Phantom Entertainment
- PlayStation 3
- PlayStation 3 models
- PlayStation Portable
- Retro Duo
- Seventh generation of video game consoles
- Swinxs
- V.Flash
- Wii
- XGP
- Xbox 360
- Zeebo
Wii hardware
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