Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Super size and speed make the finds perfect fodder for the evening news and for the imaginations of eight-year-old dino devotees. But scientists are more interested in what the discoveries, reported last week in the journal Science and in National Geographic, say about where dinosaurs lived and how they evolved. "We have a pretty good record from North America, Asia and South America," says paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "But we're just now starting to get a picture of the dinosaur fauna of Africa...
...speed--sticking to fast (but expensive) silicon cartridges as his storage medium and leapfrogging ahead to the next-generation 64-bit processors. (The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo are 16-bit systems...
Nintendo, meanwhile, pumped new life into the maturing 16-bit market by releasing Donkey Kong Country, a game originally designed for the new 64-bit system, in a version that played on the 16-bit Super NES. The game's eye-popping graphics were an instant sensation; DKC not only became the best-selling game of 1994 but also ratcheted up pressure on the teams designing games for the new machine. "When we released Donkey Kong Country, we raised the bar on ourselves," says Lincoln. "The launch games on Nintendo 64 had to be that much better...
They are. Hours after Super Mario 64 arrived in Seattle, TIME correspondent David S. Jackson took it and several other games for a test run. Playing Mario 64, he reports, is like jumping inside the movie Toy Story. The plot line, something about a princess and a bad guy named Bowser, is, as always, almost irrelevant. What matters is that the Silicon Graphics chip-fueled Nintendo 64 puts the fastest, smoothest game action yet attainable via joystick at the service of equally virtuoso motion. Mario runs, flies, swims, dodges and flips his way past a bewildering welter of walls, ramps...
...behind Super Mario 64 is a shaggy-haired, banjo-playing Japanese artist who rides a bicycle to work, wears a Mickey Mouse tie and chills out by plucking bluegrass tunes on his Dobro guitar...