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This week, I will talk more about technological development and the revolution that has happened in the past few decades. The internet is one of the major indicators of technological development. The internet is an excellent, beautiful, and sometimes horrible place. Have you heard of the saying that “the internet never forgets?”. Yes, it doesn’t forget, but that does not mean things don’t get obsolete. There is nothing more representative of the internet like the Neopets and Adobe Flash. Back in the days, when adobe flash was the new thing on the internet. Web pages became interactive, and loads of games were designed that would just reside on the page with little or no load or bandwidth demands on the server. Neopets: The classic...

Image Credit: Guadian | Online music has come a long way. Have you ever stopped and wondered how complicated it was to get an mp3 file back in the 90s. The world was not yet used to subscription services. Then, in came Napster! The savior for music lovers. Suddenly with a single click, you would be presented with millions of music, albums, and discographic backgrounds of the artists. Napster had this unique way of creating music that would suit my moods. But was it legal? Well, did we care whether it was legal or not? All we needed was to listen to your favorite music. This led many to ignore the legality and copyright issues behind the music. Napster has since been fighting legal battles with many music copyrights companies. How did it...

Image Credit: Den of Geek The year 2020 will forever be remembered by the generations to come. It is the year that the world economies almost came to a standstill. But on the flipside. Some players in the industry have recorded quite some significant increase in numbers and revenue. Netflix reported a record high of 195.15 million subscribers globally, out of which a whopping 73 million are from the US(Statista). On the other hand, YouTube recorded over 126 million unique monthly views in the last quarter. Why am I talking about these statistics? Well, because I have been part of it! Since the pandemic started, I have been binging on some old classic TV series, cartoons, retro-games, and everything that came from the ‘90s. And boy, I...

Since the 1990s, the gaming industry has come a long way with some changes that have changed the way people play computer games. Today we'll be talking about all of the technological advancements that the industry has achieved. 1. Facial Recognition Technology for scanning and face detection enables devices to generate your appearance in the field of gaming (so you can create a personalized character that looks exactly like you or to pass your own emotions to other digital creations elegantly. On top of that, by scanning 78 different points on a human's face, the Intel® RealSenseTM 3D sensor might allow people to develop games that respond to the consumer's feelings. 2. Voice Recognition Too tired to have the controller...

Gaming has been my daily thing since the pandemic hit. It has helped me get past all the lockdown boredom and loneliness. But strangely enough, I have spent most of my time playing the old classic retro games from the ‘90s to the early 2000s. I find them satisfying compared to the new games being released. Today, my nostalgic tendencies pushed me to play DOOM, not the 2016 Reboot of the game, but the classic retro DOOM of 1993. After watching the walkthrough on YouTube, I had to look at the archives and dig it out. And I must admit, I had the best feeling ever. The nostalgia of watching the game was over the roof, not to mention the joy of playing the game again after 27 years! I spent much of my evening killing demons and passing...

When the ‘90s nostalgia hits me, it hits so hard that I sometimes feel like am re-living the past. Last week, while rummaging my room for my PS4 gamepad, I came across a worn-our DVD cover for the ReBoot TV series. A computer-animated show that taught me all I know about computers and computing! I know what you’re thinking… Yes, I bought the DVD version of the series so that I could watch it repeatedly when it had finished showing. Since my friends were not fans of the show then, I just had to get my copy of the DVD. It's over 25 years down the line, but the show never ceases to amaze. Unfortunately, I have no ideas where the disc itself is, I only found the DVD cover. Since my recollection of the show is still fresh today, I thought...

You must be wondering… Was there a Legends of the Hidden Temple movie in 1993? You most likely know the 2016 reboot movie produced by Amy Sydorick. Yes, the original classic Legends of The Hidden Temple was released on September 11, 1993, and was broadcasted until November 14, 1995. If you were a teenager around that time, you must have watched this show very early in the morning while seeping your chocolate milk some eggrolls. That was my morning routine back in the ‘90s. The show brings all the memories and the nostalgia of binging on the show and laughing all day long. Let us jump in…. The background of The Legends of the Hidden Temple. The Legends of the Hidden Temple was an American action-adventure television game show that...

#1 E-Sports now and then Now, large numbers of individuals worldwide are involved in a multi-billion dollar annual business named professional gaming. Its phenomenon was driven by the growth of eSports and is taken seriously by groups of people. The 'golden generation' of arcades is said to be from the late 1970s to 1980s when this form of video gaming was a phenomenon in the industry. Highlights of this era were 'Space Invaders' (1978), vector-based' Asteroids '(1979), and' Pac-Man '(1980). With tens of thousands of cash at stake at any given championship battle, teams & individual players fight for victory under huge pressure with their reputation on the line too. But it's not a recent concept in today's modern era. Esports dates...

Let’s be honest….You hated history classes. Right?! Well, that is my stupid assumption! Maybe it was just me. Honestly, I had a water vs. oil kind of relationship with the history lessons. But surprisingly, a cartoon show changed my entire point of view. Yes, you heard me right. Histeria! Made me fall in love with history again by presenting it in the exact manner that I wished all my teachers could deliver the message. Let’s jump in. Maybe it was because of the FCC that stated every cartoon should have some educational message. But Hysteria! was one show full of lessons on history, that turned me from being a history hater to an almost history major….I repeat…almost! Histeria! Intro theme song There was something goofy about this...

Photo: MobyGames Once again, we take a trip back in time and look at an amazing retro-game, the Original Star Fox. Do you remember it? Have you ever done a real barrel roll on Star Fox? If yes, then you were a real fan of the original Starfox. The Classic Star Fox was a revolutionary game when it was released back in the early ‘90s, providing complete three-dimensional, polygonal graphics, which were only seen in arcade games. The ability of the game to render the polygons and shading that gave the illusion of three-dimensional depth was an excellent stride that Nintendo made in the gaming industry back then. Let’s look at the background of Star Fox. Understanding the Background of Star Fox video game Star Fox is a 1993 rail...

Image: Pinterest The ‘90s marked a great leap in the technology industry. New inventions were made in this era, and many companies invested in Silicon Valley gold at the time. Every major company in the US, China, and other technology giants tried to get a piece of the tech revolution cake. The competition for supremacy and dominance in the tech industry led to fierce competition in the sector. One of the most notable competitions that received remarkable worldwide attention was the rivalry between Nintendo and Sega. These two gaming giants made in the news back in the 90s through to the 2000s. Their rivalry was on another level, that the documentary “Console Wars” in that regard. The term console wars become synonymous with the two...

Image Courtesy: WardrobeOxygen Honestly, in the '90s, we didn't have a sense of style. Let alone of Fashion. We had less say on our clothing; it was more of what our mother preferred. And we would wear what mommy says, no matter what we thought. If mum thought something was cool and trendy, that is what we would wear! It was all fine, anyway, unless pushed by peer pressure and consider some wears "not so trendy." Today I have been hit by the '90s nostalgia uniquely. After seeing a leather jacket that looked more or less like something, I had worn back in the '90s. It prompted me to search on google for the trendy fashions that we wore back in the days. As I browsed over the throwback images, you can begin to see the parallels between...

Image Courtesy: Amazon Have you ever been in a relationship with a video game? Well, after watching the animated sitcom, Taz-Mania, I became so attached to it. Then came the Taz-Mania video game. It was very easy for me to fall in love with the video game. Since I had the entire storyline in my head, it was very easy for me to play the game. Yesterday the '90s nostalgia or retro games and TV series hit me gain. I bumped into this episode of Taz-mania on YouTube, The Tasmanian Devil, that inspired me to write about it today. In this review, I will start with the Taz-Mania Cartoon on which the Taz-Mania game was based on. Later on, we will talk about its SNES game release that came much later. Taz-Mania Cartoon Show (1991 – 1995)...

Introduction - Escaping lockdown into a world of video games With several venues now shut down due to coronavirus, players turn to games to help them deal with problems swallowed up during the lockdown. Yesterday, Boris Johnson, the current UK prime minister, announced a national lockdown for the whole of the UK, which will be in effect from the 5th of November. Lockdowns or restricting people's movement can have serious consequences on one's health, physically & mentally. It's natural for people to look for a form of escapism to take their minds off things, and one of those methods is gaming. New restrictions in England? People are advised to stay at home, but for particular reasons. These include jobs that can not be performed...

Image: Fortress of Solitude. One of my favorite games, when I was a teen back in the late ‘90s, was Super Smash Bros. Simply because the game was fun. The game was complex while at the same time basic to the players! This made the game have a unique experience when played. One other unique characteristic of the game was the fact that it included characters from other games. Bringing together the characters from other games made Super Smash Bro. Video game to among the most sort after games back in the late 90s when it was launched. That said, let's look at the history of Super Smash Bros. Understanding the Background of Super Smash Bros. Video game. Super Smash Bros. is a crossover fighting video-game produced by HAL Lab and...

[Image: Thought Catalog] It was on April 4, 1998, when the first episode of CatDog aired. This is not one of the short series that we have looked at here because it ran from that April until June 15, 2005. It needed to be interesting to last for all those years, and it sure was. Peter Hannan created the animated television series for Nickelodeon. He also composed and sang the CatDog theme song that became rang in the minds of kids for seven years. For a series in the black comedy genre, there are a lot of laughs expected. CatDog aired in four seasons, 68 episodes. But that was not the end of the series. After the initial run, BBC Two and Nicktoons started the second run from 2005 to September 5, 2011. For more than ten years...

Once again, we look at an animated series that existed for roughly less than a year. You may have missed it! Road Rovers was an American animated TV series produced by Warner Bros. The show debuted on the Kids’ Wb in September 1996 and ended in February 1997 at the end of season one. Two years later, in 1998, the show was broadcast on Cartoon Network. It ran for two years until 2000. The Road Rover is based on the experiences of the Road Rovers, which was a group of five anthropomorphic dogs with superpowers. The dogs are also referred to as Cano-sapiens. In the show, they live with world leaders, including the US President, the British Prime Minister, The German Chancellor, and the Swiss President with one dog in Kremlin. Road...