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The ___MASK12___ Entertainment System ( commonly abbreviated as NES ) is an 8 - bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by ___MASK12___ . The best - selling gaming console of its time , the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983 . With the NES , ___MASK12___ introduced a now - standard business model of licensing third - party developers , authorizing them to ___MASK24___ and distribute titles for ___MASK12___ ' s platform . The ___MASK32___ ST is a line of home computers from ___MASK32___ Corporation and the successor to the ___MASK32___ 8 - bit family . The initial ST model , the 520ST , saw limited release in the spring of 1985 and was widely available in July . The ___MASK32___ ST is the first personal computer to come with a bit - mapped color GUI , using a version of Digital Research ' s GEM released in February 1985 . The 1040ST , released in 1986 , is the first personal computer to ship with a megabyte of RAM in the base configuration and also the first with a cost - per - kilobyte of less than US $ 1 . Drakkhen is a 3D role - playing video game which was initially developed for the Amiga and ___MASK32___ ST , and subsequently ported to several other platforms , including MS - DOS and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor . The word " video " in " video game " traditionally referred to a raster display device , but as of the 2000s , it implies any type of display device that can ___MASK24___ two - or three - dimensional images . Some theorists categorize video games as an art form , but this designation is controversial . Dragon View , is a side - scrolling role - playing video game released for the Super ___MASK12___ Entertainment System in November 1994 . Released in Japan as Super Drakkhen (  ) and otherwise known as Drakkhen II , it is meant to be a prequel to Drakkhen although it bears little resemblance to its predecessor . It uses the same pseudo - 3D overworld system for which the series is most famous . Other features of Dragon View are its side - view action role - playing game ( RPG ) hybrid gameplay ( used when exploring more detailed areas such as towns and dungeons ) , its well translated first person storyline , and its emphasis on player - driven undirected exploration . The Amiga is a family of personal computers sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s . Based on the ___MASK15___ 68000 family of microprocessors , the machine has a custom chipset with graphics and sound capabilities that were unprecedented for the price , and a pre - emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS . The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from earlier 8 - bit home computers , including Commodore ' s own C64 . Japan (" Nippon " or " Nihon " ; formally "" or " Nihon - koku ", means " State of Japan ") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia . Located in the Pacific Ocean , It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland ( east of China , Korea , Russia ) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near ___MASK92___ in the southwest . Australasia , a region of Oceania , comprises Australia , New Zealand , the island of New Guinea , and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean . Charles de Brosses coined the term ( as ___MASK39___ " Australasie ") in " Histoire des navigations aux terres australes " ( 1756 ). He derived it from the Latin for " south of Asia " and differentiated the area from Polynesia ( to the east ) and the southeast Pacific ( Magellanica ). The bulk of Australasia sits on the Indo - Australian Plate , together with India . The Super ___MASK12___ Entertainment System ( officially abbreviated the Super NES or SNES , and commonly shortened to Super ___MASK12___ ) is a 16 - bit home video game console developed by ___MASK12___ that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea , 1991 in North America , 1992 in Europe and Australasia ( Oceania ), and 1993 in South America . In Japan , the system is called the , or SFC for short . In South Korea , it is known as the Super Comboy (   " Syupeo Keomboi ") and was distributed by Hyundai Electronics . Although each version is essentially the same , several forms of regional lockout prevent the different versions from being compatible with one another . It was released in Brazil on September 2 , 1992 , by Playtronic . MS - DOS (; acronym for " ___MASK87___ Disk Operating System ") is a discontinued operating system for x86 - based personal computers mostly developed by ___MASK87___ . It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems , and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s and the early 1990s , when it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface ( GUI ), in various generations of the graphical ___MASK87___ Windows operating system by ___MASK87___ Corporation . An overworld is , in a broad sense , an area within a video game that interconnects all its levels or locations . They are mostly common in role - playing games , though this does not exclude other video game genres . Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s , ___MASK12___ then developed into a video game company in the 1970s , ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan ' s third most - valuable company with a market value of over $ 85 billion . From 1992 until 2016 , ___MASK12___ was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball ' s Seattle Mariners . A role - playing video game ( commonly referred to as role - playing game or RPG , and in the past was also known as computer role - playing game or CRPG ) is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character ( and / or several party members ) immersed in some well - defined world . Many role - playing video games have origins in pen - and - paper role - playing games ( Including " Dungeons & Dragons ") and use much of the same , settings and game mechanics . Other major similarities with pen - and - paper games include developed story - telling and narrative elements , player character development , complexity , as well as replayability and immersion . The electronic medium removes the necessity for a gamemaster and increases combat resolution speed . RPGs have evolved from simple text - based console - window games into visually rich 3D experiences . Since the 1980s , Role - playing is the most commercially viable video game genre in Japan , and has more market share of any other genre in the japanese gaming industry , although in the 2010s first - person shooters and western iOS and Android games were becoming rapidly and increasingly popular in that country .