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In the 1987 Nintendo Entertainment System videogame Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, a character famously declared: I am error. Puzzled players assumed that this cryptic message was a programming flaw, but it was actually a clumsy Japanese-English translation of "My Name is Error," a benign programmer's joke. In I am error, Nathan Altice explores the complex material histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (and its Japanese predecessor, the...
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"While there have been a great many triumphs written about video games (the first game developed jointly by MIT and Harvard; the wild success of Pong at a rather seedy bar in Sunnyvale, CA; the Golden Age of Videogames; and the growing prominence of video games over screen-based entertainment mediums), there of course had to be failures and the Nintendo SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) was the beginning of Nintendo's downfall. This is a...
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