Tokyo Game Show / Tony Hawk Ride review

This week in the wired online website I read about the Tokyo game show. I found it interesting because me being a 17 year old boy likes gamming. The Tokyo game show grosed about 1-2 million people. New games such as Final Fantasy XIII, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, PixelJunk Shooter for PS3 and PixelJunk Monsters PSP, Bayonetta for the Playstaiton 3, Puyo Puyo for the Wii and the PSP, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker for the PSP, Left 4 Dead 2 on Xbox 360, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories for the Wii, PS2 and PSP. Theres one big thing here that the ratio to Microsoft Xbox to Sony Playstation 3 is 1:5 of the main games shown in the article, same with Nintendo Wii which is a company made based in Japan hence, you would think that Nintendo will want to gross its home crowd of Japan with all of its new products. Recently Playstation has began its new campaign of the Playstaion Slim. This is a Playstaion 3 or PS3 that is slim because the old PS3 was considered bulky and not very “stylish” while the new PS3 slim is ”stylish” small and has all the original features at a lower price. Also the PSP has had a revamp. The original PSP was bulky and long which was hard to fit into your pocket but at the same time super cool because you could play your Playstation games on the go which, and watch Movies and listen to music, this was the first original idea to compete against the old school gaming machine the Game Boy and its new touch screen counterpart the Nintendo DS. The new PSP or Playstation Portable is different from its older brother because it has a slide mechanism, like a side kick you slide it and bam u can play and it has a new button system and more accurate analog system. So the smart marketing campaign had its effect on the Tokyo Game Show 2009 because the PS3 and PSP made its big appetence with tons of new games that the people could play with.

On a smaller note, this weekend I went to Freestyle.ch. In the Freestyle.ch ground there was the Xbox stand and in it was the new Ride game by Tony Hawk. Tony Hawk being a skateboarded fitted in quite adequately with its surroundings. The game is a new rival to the Wii because instead of playing with an controller like most other Xbox and PS3 games, in this you get a skateboard that you “skate” with. IT was a lot of fun, I really liked the idea and concept but doing the tricks and grabs and grinding is hard, and you need to have really good body coordination. An other unique thing is that you can change the stance, so you can ride goofy which is left foot front or you can ride regular. I really like the idea and the concept but the levels ( I played 3) were too child like. Some levels have the teenager feel and others are too child like. FinallyThey have freestyle.ch has one of the Xbox 360 Switzerland levels you can buy via your Xbox Live account.

Problem and Solution

Problem

The Aids problem 

Radicical Soloution 

kill all the people with aids

My problem in the world today is the Aids problem, thinking of a radical soluton to this problem is the extermination of all the people with the aids infection and also i think that they should be isloated into a getto

wired magzine post

This week I read the articale on how familes can control obesity in America or the world. This caught my eye because I didn’t relize the direct correlatcion between them. They found out that when people die or when they lose a close friend they are willing to pay more money on things to get over their loss, this is correlcated with the rising of Fast Food Joints in an area. They found out that during the rise of Mc Donalds in the late 1990’s the marrige rate went low and that more people started eating out. This later becomes a culture trend in America, the rise of obseitcy occurred and now the marrige rate is going up which means that less people are eating out at fast food joints. Also they called it an virus. When the person has been dumped, divorced or lost someone close to them they will take it out on their friends and they will go to the fast food joint. This is what they think is the spread of Obesity.

What does Cool Mean to Me

I think the word cool is defined to us by materialization of things but I also think that Cool has a new meaning which is used by Companies such as; Nike, Disney, and MTV as a trigger for us , teenages, to buy things. When we talk about "cool" I admeditally think about clothes, music or sports. The desinger brands like Nike, Ralph Lauren and Vans are brands that I have and that are cool but those companies don’t care if I like the clothes because they are more concered on profit and by making these clothes and asking kids whats cool and whats not they can gain an deeper understanding on what I as a consumer want but since I myself am not the trendsetter the don’t care about me. As in the Movie The Merchants of Cool, which takes the word cool and applies it to Companys and ow they manipulate use into buying there products; there was an intresting quote from it saying " trend setters are only the 20% of kids". So the companies don’t care what I think they use the Popular class in school life or in teenage Society. They know that if I start looking at what the one popular kid is wearing it will start spreading around the school because everyone wants to be like him. I myself can admit to this. I use to like rock and gerne of music called Sythensis Rock,this takes elements of rock and sythensising (so techno beats) and mashes the two togther. I now barley list in to this type of music,because it has simply gone out of style, rap and techno are in and rock is out. I get most of my music off itunes and on itunes for the new artest all I see is rap and techno and a few rock. My hypoyhesis is that apple has been payied by music companies such as Intescope,death Jam records, to put music at the hot new music. Intrestingly both of thoes records are huge and famous rapping records, and if you would look at the hot new music its rap and techno which are the majority. Furthoremore, the compaines take what kids like and manuiplate us into spending machines, and the most succesfull companies have use this as a wepon agianst the parants.

Disney and what it owns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company
Walt Disney Studio Entertainment
Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group
Disney Music Group
Walt Disney Theatrical
Disney-ABC Television Group
Radio Disney
ESPN Inc
Disney Interactive Media Group
Disney Consumer Products
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Disneyland Resort
Walt Disney World Resort
Tokyo Disney Resort, licensed to The Oriental Land Company
Disneyland Resort Paris, through joint venture Euro Disney S.C.A.
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, through joint venture Hong Kong International Theme Parks
Pixar
Walt Disney studios
Miramax
Dimension
Touchstone

Technology

The summary of the article is all about the game producers and film makers are getting angry at people posting walkthrough's and posting plot summary's. An example is Xbox's newish game called Briad. The game is in the puzzle category. He said that within a week of the game out on the market there had been a exclusive walkthrough on just about every gaming website possible. Also t.v shows like Lost don’t want people giving plot synopsis to ruin the whole season. Furthermore computer/ video game producers make the game to be played and not to be cheated on, by some onelse. The same princeable goes to
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2 themes

In the book 451 the ideas of Addictiveness and Manipulation tool is used for the tv or the Palour. These two ideas are used because of two reasons the palour has Montags wife hooked on its simlar to a drug, she has to play and since shes hooked on to it shes not really aware of the outside world. This then leads to a multude of things such as the Hound being amazing at everytrhing is does when we know its not because Montag escapes. Futhermore if we look at the drug addiciton its huge because montags wife had her stomick pumped and she doesn’t now about it and the crew came which means it’s a regular happening. So I can infer that the government wants people to overdoes,hence they have made a crew to fix it. b

451 themes

In the book 451 a major theme is government. the Government has played big part in the book. The government controls the society. By this I mean, the hound, the parlor etc. The government has put up these barriers to keep the society at bay. Since the society is like this and doesn’t realize there are being brain washed, to an extent, they continue on with life. These barriers, are used to keep people like Montag unawhere of what really happens in the behind the scenes or the government. The government is a mystious organization that is not really explained, so we must interrupt the governments actions from Montag, and his views change after he starts talking to Clarissa and Luber.

Another side of the government we see is the propaganda they spread and how they use it. When we see the palourer, that is pure propaganda because they host, is tricking them by making them play the game or watch the show, instead of having Individualism and or alone time which is Highly unpopular this is they way the government has used propaganda to there advantage. Also the hound is propaganda. The Hound is a failure, because it does not always catch the thing put the government says it does. This is to invoke fear. Invoking fear has been a common tactic with all Dictatorships. The Hound in a way symbolizes Nazi’s SS or Stalin’s KGB. The two groups were the thing that invoked fear into people because if you spoke out against the German Nazis tic Ideas or Communistic Russia you would be facing your life. The hound is not so serve but it symbolizes fear because “bad “people get chased and supposable get caught.