games

I am interested in the way that games have developed in the recent years. It is a major area of technological development.

It started with the simple board games played for decades but it slowly moved to the electronic front.

There are many claims for the first video game and will not delve into which is but I believe some of the earliest hand held video game came in tetris, an all time classic. Early computer games are found in space invader and pacman.

Though instead of the early history, I'll skip to more recent. Since then we have increased our limits for portable games, starting at a gameboy and moving to colour in the gameboy colour. Since then we have advanced to the nintendo DS and the 3DS, a 3D portable gaming system.

Consoles, which can be wired into a TV have always been popular. They have also had humble beginnings in the game cube, with which you used controllers. After many minor changes to this system, the eyetoy device was made for the playstation 2. It uses a camera and it was the first console where you didn't need controllers and you were the controller. It has since been altered into the widely popular wii, which uses a controller but your movement controls the controller instead of the buttons. Most recently the x-box kinnect was made and is the newest device of this sort.

Downfall remix

This is an example of a downfall parody, which wasn't taken down because it has no visual media. You can read the subtitles, which replace the words Hitler actually says as the maker of this video makes an argument against constantin films.

Downfall parodies removed

The 2004 film, Downfall is very well known for its parodies. A scene in the movie, when Hitler going into a rant about the war is used and then english subtitles are placed so that people could make a parody. In April 2010 Constantin films asked youtube to block all downfall parodies. Doing this caused much uproar an shows the strain of copyright laws for the visual media. Many people have different opinions about how fair this is because the makers of the parodies advertised the films and made no money. This has been a central debate on copyright in films in the last year and much more could follow.