MetaFilter posts tagged with consoles and gaming

name that game!

flex — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:58:21 -0800

How many video games can you identify by their sound effects? How many can you guess from their music? (part 2, part 3) Can you name video game consoles by their start-up sounds?

Consollection!

slogger — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:27:17 -0800

Consollection! Also available in a beautiful hardbound edition.

Microsoft Delays X-Box Release

ttrendel — Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:25:20 -0800

Microsoft Delays X-Box Release Sure it's only by a week, but the article also hints at anticipated availability problems. Why does this seem so familiar?

For the well-shod

Big Fat Tycoon — Fri, 18 May 2001 15:45:54 -0800

For the well-shod video game aficionado.

Playstation 3

zeoslap — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:58:25 -0800

Playstation 3 chip to be designed by IBM. The three companies (Sony, IBM, and Toshiba) aim to design a "super-computer on a chip" with a wide variety of consumer applications, they said in a joint statement.

"The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer, operate at low power and access the broadband internet at ultra-high speeds," the statement added

Wowzers!

This guy thinks the XBox will kill off PC gaming.

Steven Den Beste — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:05:11 -0800

This guy thinks the XBox will kill off PC gaming. He also thinks the XBox is "one of the most important events in gaming in the next decade". Whew!

Now while these guys

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:27:29 -0800

Now while these guys are not exactly the most unbiased source for an evaluation of the PlayStation 2, they have nonetheless backed up their evaluation with a lot of convincing hard information on the performance and in particular about the financing. If these guys have got it right, Sony's going to take a bath on this; they'll never come close to recouping their costs of production, let alone all the research they did. If these guys have it right, Sony will lose money on the PS2 as long as they sell it. This Is Not Good. (Unless you hate Rambus, like I do, because this means both of their markets will collapse.)

A new strategy in the war against piracy?

tomorama — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 19:07:17 -0800

A new strategy in the war against piracy? Allegedly, Sega offered these DreamCast ISO distributors stock options in exchange for ceasing their piracy operations. They reportedly have taken the offer, dropped their DreamCast ripping and moved on to PSX bootlegs. [via SlashDot]