VIDEO GAMES

B Y R I L E Y N A U N D O RF

MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY

The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console released in 1972

GRAND THEFT AUTO

Grand Theft Auto, the first game in the Grand Theft Auto series, was created by video game developer DMA Design, and was released for Microsoft DOS/Windows in 1997/1998 and also for the PlayStation.

The game is set in three different fictional cities, Liberty City, San Andreas and Vice City. A reduced Game Boy Color port was later released.

Subsequently, two expansion packs, Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969 and Grand Theft Auto: London, 1961, were released on 31 March and 1 June 1999, respectively

ABOUT MARIO

Mario debuted as Jump man in the arcade game Donkey Kong in 1981. He is shown as a carpenter that has a pet ape. The carpenter mistreats the ape so Donkey Kong escapes and kidnaps Jump man's girlfriend originally known as the Lady but later named Pauline. The player must take the role of Jump man and rescue the girl. The character was later renamed Mario in the 1982 arcade game Donkey Kong Junior, the only game in which he has ever been portrayed as an antagonist. In the 1983 arcade game Mario Bros., Mario and his younger brother Luigi are portrayed as Italian-American plumbers who have to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York. Their surname was Mario resulting in Mario's full name being first given here as Mario

RED DEAD REDEMPTION UNDEAD NIGHTMAREUndead Nightmare features an open world with numerous

zombie related elements incorporated into the atmosphere and environment. Random encounters in the wild are replaced with random zombie encounters. Bounty missions are now replaced with missing person missions, in which the player must track down a missing survivor of the zombie plague and return them home safely to their families. Gang Hideouts are replaced with graveyards across the map, in which the you can clear out hordes of zombies.

you can now hunt zombie animals such as cougars, bears and wolves, as well as mythical creatures such as Sasquatch, Chupacabra and a unicorn. The Four Horses of The Apocalypse can also be tamed and used as mounts, each having their own unique ability or effect upon zombies and the environment surrounding the player. The game also introduces new weapons for the player to use. Much like skinning animals and looting dead bodies in the original single player, you can now loot zombies for parts. In turn, these zombie parts can be used as ammunition for the blunderbuss, in order to conserve ammunition.

HALO

Halo is a multi-billion dollar fiction video game franchise created by Bungee and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios. The series centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant. The Covenant are led by their leaders The Prophets, and worship an ancient civilization known as the Forerunners who perished in combat with the parasitic Flood.

WHEN THE NINTENDO GAME CUBE WAS RELEASED

The Nintendo GameCube is a sixth generation video game console released by Nintendo on September 15, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia. It was the successor to the Nintendo 64

ROCK STAR NORTH

As of early 2002, the company is a part of Rock star Games, owned by Take Two Interactive. It is the primary developer of the Grand Theft Auto series, including Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, which are three of the best selling games on sixth generation consoles, in addition to the best selling Grand Theft Auto IV in the current generation of consoles.

DRIVER SAN FRANCISCO

Driver: San Francisco is a sandbox-style action-adventure driving video game developed by Ubisoft Reflections and published by Ubisoft. The game formally was unveiled at E3 2010 and was released in Australia on September 1, 2011, Europe on September 2, 2011 and North America on September 6, 2011 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, while the Microsoft Windows version was released on 27 September 2011.

BURN OUT PARADISE

It was developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. It was released in January 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and on February 5, 2009 for Microsoft Windows. It was also released on the PlayStation Store in September 2008 and via Xbox Live Marketplace's Games on Demand August 25, 2009. It was later added to the libraries of Greatest Hits and Platinum Hits titles.