That Old Nintendo Feeling

Posted on May 9, 2007
Filed Under Hardware, Games, Daily Notes | 3 Comments

Last year, I started collecting Nintendo Entertainment System (or what we preferred in the old days just “Nintendo”) ROM’s. I occasionaly got this retro feeling to try stuff from the days of yore.

These days, you could download anything from the net. Started with ROM’s, emulators, 8-bit music, and of course the back end of a NES system, I became a NES junkie. But one thing missing there. I did not own a NES box. I mean, I once owned it, but I gave it to one of my nephews a couple years ago. One decision that would make me regret for the rest of time.

On Sunday, after having a conversation with my cousin, I accidentaly found out that he owns a NES box (damn, why I haven’t asked him before?). So we search it in his closet, Tested it, works fine. Bring it up to my room.Connect the audio/video cable (not surprisingly, it had only two kind of cable), the power adapter, and voila!

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He owns two catridges consist of a couple of games (one of it was that infamous ‘n-in-one’ catridge, where they put n number of games, which actually an extraction from some level of games in there, lame yet funny)

“Thank you for saving me, Mario. But our princess is in another castle“

Game Lawas

Posted on January 25, 2006
Filed Under Games | 1 Comment

Perkembangan di dunia teknologi informasi mempunyai suatu ciri yang khas, perkembangan yang pesat. Dari segi hardware dan juga software perkembangan dalam dunia TI ini terus menerus berganti dalam hitungan bulan. Teknologi terbaru yang dimiliki seseorang sekarang baik itu hardware maupun software pada beberapa bulan akan ketinggalan dan digantikan oleh teknologi baru.

Sekarang ini saya akan membahas mengenai perkembangan teknologi game. Dalam kurun waktu 10 tahun belakangan ini, perkembangan di dunia game bersifat eksponensial. Lompatan besar terjadi, terutama dari segi grafis. Game yang ada sekarang, pada umumnya menitikberatkan pada sisi grafis. Game yang populer adalah game yang mempunyai kualitas grafis yang tinggi. Sehingga banyak orang yang berlomba-lomba mengupgrade Graphic Card mereka agar dapat memainkan game-game terkini. Game baru umumnya akan melakukan terobosan dalam sisi grafisnya dan mengeksploitasi secara optimal kinerja Graphic Card terbaru.

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