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THE MODERN WORLD
Electronic games KINECT AND X-box 360
MICROSOFT
XBOX Eject button
VIDEO GAMES HAVE BEEN around Disc tray
since the early 1970s. They are played
on PCs, arcade machines, on a TV
Ring indicator
using a home console, and on Cooling
portable handheld consoles. Players vent
Power
use devices such as joysticks and On/Off button
MARIO SPORTS MIX WII control pads with buttons to control Infrared
projector
movement and action on screen.
The latest generation of consoles uses motion sensor technology
to allow players to manipulate objects on screen by simply moving
the controller. The most advanced game systems respond to
gestures and commands spoken by a player, without any need Color camera Kinect
to use a hand controller. The game itself is stored in the form
of digital information on CD, DVD, or microchip—which may Infrared camera
be integral or stored in a removable cartridge—or on an internal
hard disk. A central processing unit (CPU) (see pp. 566–567)
is needed to process commands from the players, while specialized
graphics chips are used to process the complex mapping and Status LED
texturing functions that make modern games appear so realistic. indicator
KINECT (FRONT
NINTENDO 3DS PANEL REMOVED)
COMPONENTS OF NINTENDO 3DS
Inner
camera
Motherboard
Stylus Motherboard
3-D screen cable holder cable
Speaker

3-D depth
slider
Touch
screen

Control
buttons

LOWER CASE BASE
Power Game
connector card slot MEMS
gyroscope

Select key Home Start key Ribbon
key cable
Power
On/Off button
Circle pad SD card
slot
Control NINTENDO 3DS
pad (OPENED UP)
Circuit
board Headphone
SD CARD READER jack NINTENDO 3DS MOTHERBOARD
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