By: Johnny and Emmanuel
The new modern games such as "New Super Mario Bros. U" are just remakes of old retro games like "Mario Bros." for the NES. If the creators of all the old games just remade them then sell the games for even more. All the new games you play now a days you need stuff with it like with "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" you to buy a Wii remote or a Gamecube controller. Most of the games today are rated M fast pace 1st person shooter and they cost so much for an Xbox 360. It would cost $200 plus a game for $44 and if you want a friend to play with an extra controller $40 more so at the end you would pay $284 plus tax. Some of the games to the right cost money but there pretty cool because you can download on your IPhone or IPod Touch and take it any where so you don't have to play it just at home you can play it on the go or at home. ~Johnny
When you think of retro anything, you most likely think of something old, and that's just what some games are, old. Video games are everywhere; in movies, at homes, and places dedicated to just games, even your smart phone. But where did it all start? The first game created was made back in 1947, the game was made to recreate tennis, the game was called "Tennis for Two' and the game was not like games today, it looked like a laser being shot at a piece of paper, instead of light coming from an LCD screen. The retro games most people remember hearing about would be NES classics, such as Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda. But the NES wasn't the only console of course, there were other consoles made by Sega, the creators of Sonic, made multiple consoles. they made the Sega dreamcast and the all time classic, the Sega Genesis. But home wasn't the only place where you can play games, there were arcades and handheld devices back in the 70s too. one of the first handheld games was brought to you by the same people who made Twister and the game of Life. Milton Bradley(c) created the Microvision, a small, TV remote sized game that only had a small selection of games, and the games were actually not on discs or cartridges, but a removable case for the console, it was much like putting a new case on your iPhone. But if you wanted to play games on a bigger screen, you can go to the arcades. Coin operated machines, or coin-op machines, started popping up in your favorite pizza parlors around the early 70s, but sadly died down around the mid 90s. Coin-op machines included pinball machines, games such as PacMan, and even claw machines. Although coin-op machines seem rare, people collect them, and new ones are still made, such as Terminator: Salvation, which came out in 2010. So you decide what you prefer. ~ Emmanuel
The Olloclip is an attachment for the IPhone 4/4S/5 and IPod Touch 4th generation. What the Olloclip does is lets your IPhone/IPod Touch's camera have fisheye, wide-angle, and macro lens. The Olloclip is easy to put on and take off. This camera lens is good because it has three different lens. The fisheye is a 180 degree lens that reduces the scale in the edges. The wide-angle lens has a wider view then normal view. Macro lens is a lens suitable for taking photographs unusually close to the object. With the same HD view then an IPhone the Olloclip is a great tool for a photographer and it's so simple to use. The competing brand "The Photojojo Phone Lens Series" works with almost all phones and cost less but these are magnetic so the camera lens might fall of more and people say that magnets drain the battery of anything.
