Jet Set Radio Future HD Port Due This Summer

Sega has dipped their hands into their magic pot of games and pulled out one of the most original and unique games to ever make it to market, Jet Set Radio (Jet Grind Radio here in the states) . I’ve wanted to play a port of this game for over a decade, and never got around to it thanks to Sega’s dropout in the console wars.

Twelve years pass, and the news that Jet Set Radio Future will be available finally reach our ears. This bit of information has been received with a nice bit of fanfare welcoming back the graffiti series, adding a good amount of hype to Sega’s livelihood. I wish this happened all year around, because I could always use some more Sega in my life.

The Other Consoles of the 90s

Last time I talked about the console war between Sega and Nintendo in the 1990s and how that shaped gaming going into the new millennium. This time I am going to focus my attention on the other gaming companies that tried to make headway in the 1990s but could never quite make it to the forefront of gaming. 

Sega Vs Nintendo

Last week I talked about how Nintendo pulled North America out of the video game crash of 1983 and became a huge part of video gaming worldwide. This week I am going to talk about Nintendo’s first real competition and how that changed the gaming landscape in the 1990s. 

The Rise of Nintendo

Last time I talked about the video game crash of 1983 and what it did to the video game market in North America. While the crash did destroy gaming in America, the rest of the world continued to create video games and Japan became a big market for them. In this entry I will explain how Nintendo brought video games back to North America. 

The North American Video Game Crash of 1983

I love history. I love learning about what happened in the past, how people lived, what people did and how events unfolded and are interrelated. Being a gamer, that means I especially love learning about video game history. In my column I am going to be giving you all a brief look into the past, to see where the awesome video games we have today came from. I will begin with the infamous, North American video game crash of 1983.