Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

This is a canonical example of the PDP-1, with the console typewriter on the left, CPU and main control panel in the center, the Type 30 display on the right.

* Etna, a main character in the Disgaea series of console role playing games

Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600.

Holloway approached Flare and proposed a merger of their respective technologies to create an innovative new kind of gaming console with the computer hardware built into the main controller and in July 1988 a partnership was formed.

During the transitional phase of Sega dropping out of the console race to concentrate on software and game development, all of its main departments were separated from the main company and established on semi-autonomous subsidiaries.

On Intercom Systems that use a speaker in a room as both a speaker and a Mic will often use VOX on the main console to switch the audio direction when a conversation is going on.

For example, the games on cartridge-based game consoles typically have no exit condition in their main loop, as there is no operating system for the program to exit to ; the loop runs until the console is powered off.

Such a system receives its signal from the main mono or stereo mixing console mix bus and amplifies all frequencies together in the desired balance.

There are four main methods of parallax scrolling used in titles for video game console systems.

Liberty BASIC allows for programming in a style similar to DOS BASICs that run in console mode, using a default " main window " that displays formatted text and accepts user input.

Also, while not playable video games within video games, the main games in the Pokémon series generally include a television and game console in the player character's room.

North Bend is home to Nintendo North Bend, the main North American production facility and distribution center for the video game console manufacturer Nintendo.

The system's ability to be upgraded from a Videogame console to Personal computer along with its library of nearly 30 games in 1982 are some reasons that made it more versatile than its main competitors, and was listed by Jeff Rovin as one of the seven major video game suppliers.

This can be played either from a mobile console in the nave or from the main console.

If a keyboard is connected, the main video display will be used as the console terminal and Open Firmware can be re-entered at any time by pressing Stop-A ( L1-A ) on the keyboard.

The console has a four-way mini-joystick controller, two main buttons (' A ' and ' B '), two shoulder buttons on each side of the SMC slot (' L ' and ' R ') and two other menu buttons on each side of the screen (' SELECT ' and ' START '), made from a softer, translucent rubber.

The system's main CPU was 50 % faster than the 68000 processor found in Sega's Genesis console and the Neo Geo AES also had the benefit of specialized audio and video chipsets.

Nintendo's failure to adopt compact disc technology instead of cartridges for the Nintendo 64 was cited as the main reason rival PlayStation gained the upper hand in the 5th generation console market.

Later that year, Microsoft confirmed that Scott Henson, a developer who previously worked on the hardware and software design of the new Xbox 360 console and Kinect for Xbox 360, replaced Mark Betteridge as Studio Manager and that their main focus will be on Kinect.

The 64DD has a 32-bit coprocessor to help it read magneto-optical discs, and to transfer data to the main console.

In the PC / Mac version of the Spider-Man 2 game, the prologue cutscene takes most of the cutscene from the main console version where Dr. Octavius ' machine goes haywire and Spider-Man swings in to stop it.

This included a BCD ( Binary Coded Decimal ) based arithmetic unit, storing and addressing the main memory using base 10 numbering instead of binary.

At certain times, London has had no overall city government and boroughs were the main unit of local government for Londoners ; in Tokyo, they are known as wards or cities, and have city status, but these still form parts of a larger municipal government which has merged with that of the prefecture.

Each currency typically has a main currency unit ( the dollar, for example, or the euro ) and a fractional currency, often valued at of the main currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc, 100 pence = 1 pound, although units of or are also common.

The main difference between cluster sampling and stratified sampling is that in cluster sampling the cluster is treated as the sampling unit so analysis is done on a population of clusters ( at least in the first stage ).

The main advantage of the microprogram control unit is the simplicity of its structure.

On some processors the control unit may be further broken down into other units, such as a scheduling unit to handle scheduling and a retirement unit to deal with results coming from the pipeline ; It is the main function of CPU.

Computer systems generally consist of three main parts, the central processing unit ( CPU ) to process data, main memory to hold the data to be processed, and a variety of peripherals to communicate that data with the outside world.

::* Shared disk architecture, where each processing unit ( typically consisting of multiple processors ) has its own main memory, but all units share the other storage.

::* Shared nothing architecture, where each processing unit has its own main memory and other storage.

These vessels were significantly larger than wartime ships and had fully automatic main guns, unit Machinery, radar, sonar, and antisubmarine weapons such as the Squid mortar.

It may have its own internal control sequence unit ( not to be confused with the CPUs main control unit ), some registers, and other internal units such as a sub-ALU or FPU, or some smaller, more specific components.

The main unit of local government was the parish, and since it was also part of the church, the elders imposed public humiliation for what the locals considered immoral behaviour, including fornication, drunkenness, wife beating, cursing and Sabbath breaking.

The Compagnie Commandement et Instruction is the main military training unit of the Luxembourg Army, with instruction given in:

The army doubled in size and various reforms in composition resulted in a new emphasis on cavalry and smaller units instead of the legion as the main tactical unit.

The IBM System / 360 has a 32-bit architecture with 16 general-purpose registers, but most of the System / 360 implementations actually use hardware that implemented a much simpler underlying microarchitecture ; for example, the System / 360 Model 30 had 8-bit data paths to the arithmetic logic unit ( ALU ) and main memory and implemented the general-purpose registers in a special unit of higher-speed core memory, and the System / 360 Model 40 had 8-bit data paths to the ALU and 16-bit data paths to main memory and also implemented the general-purpose registers in a special unit of higher-speed core memory.

The first level of the code indicates the anatomical main group and consists of one letter.

Each hour consists of headlines on each quarter hour, extended at the top of the hour to form the main part of the daily schedule though these are interspaced with other programmes, generally at weekends.

In the most commonly used computer architecture, the CPU consists of two main parts: Control Unit and Arithmetic Logic Unit ( ALU ).

In the last fifty years or so, more and more researchers have studied knowledge and use of language as a cognitive phenomenon, the main problems being how knowledge of language can be acquired and used, and what precisely it consists of.

The three main types of monism are physicalism ( which holds that the mind consists of matter organized in a particular way ), idealism ( which holds that only thought truly exists and matter is merely an illusion ), and neutral monism ( which holds that both mind and matter are aspects of a distinct essence that is itself identical to neither of them ).

The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.

A popular detachable design consists of a main arm that is attached to the weapon, a plate on one end that secures four or more individual bolts at a point on their shafts and at the other end a cover that secures their heads.

The main body of a cannon consists of three basic extensions — the foremost and the longest is called the chase, the middle portion is the reinforce, and the closest and briefest portion is the cascabel or cascable.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

It consists of a main building ( completed 1911 ) with two wings ( completed 1921 ).

The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.

The map consists of a main island and smaller outlying islands, where the namesake forgotten tribe resides.

It comprises two main divisions: the first is the Liturgy of the Catechumens which consists of introductory litanies, antiphons and scripture readings, culminating in a reading from one of the Gospels and, often, a homily ; the second is the Liturgy of the Faithful in which the Eucharist is offered, consecrated, and received as Holy Communion.

The main rights and freedoms are contained in Section I, which consists of Articles 2 to 18.

Blades of Exile consists of three short scenarios set after the main trilogy as well as an editor that allows players to create their own scenarios, which need not be set in the Exile game world at all.

The main body consists of a modified dune buggy.

A meal often consists of three courses, hors d ' œuvre or entrée ( introductory course, sometimes soup ), plat principal ( main course ), fromage ( cheese course ) and / or dessert, sometimes with a salad offered before the cheese or dessert.

Le dîner ( dinner ) often consists of three courses, hors d ' œuvre or entrée ( appetizers or introductory course, sometimes soup ), plat principal ( main course ), and a cheese course or dessert, sometimes with a salad offered before the cheese or dessert.

The road network in Georgia consists of 1, 474 kilometers of main or international highways that are considered to be in good condition and some 18, 821 kilometers of secondary and local roads that are, generally, in poor condition.

Geiger counter instruments consists of two main elements ; the Geiger-Muller tube and the processing and display electronics.

The manufacturing processes of gelatin consists of three main stages:

The geography of Hong Kong primarily consists of three main territories: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and the New Territories.

The description of a mode of biological inheritance consists of three main categories:

A gas turbine is a rotary machine similar in principle to a steam turbine and it consists of three main components: a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.