designbriefs
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Video games

The largest entertainment industry, still argued about as a novelty.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

Masayuki Uemura

The Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit home video game console. It began as the Family Computer (Famicom), released in Japan in July 1983. It was later redesigned and rebranded for Western markets as the NES.

9:05

Game Boy

Gunpei Yokoi

The Game Boy is industrial design as strategic subtraction.

10:53

PlayStation (console)

Teiyu Goto

The PlayStation’s significance lies in its developer-centric architecture—not its industrial design. Teiyu Goto is not referenced in any verified source. The brief treats the console as a software platform first, a physical object second—and only what is documented is stated.

10:55

Paola Antonelli

Design isn’t decoration—it’s the filter between tech and life. Antonelli proved it by putting Pac-Man and the 747 in the same museum.