Video Games

By: Brayden Brosz, Bryce Dahle

RuneScape

Runescape is celebrating its seventeenth year of being run to the public and things are looking good for this year. Runecape was released on January 4, 2001 and on the first day It was released it only had 1,033 players and now it has almost a million online players at any given time, Runescape used to have almost a billion players but about 95% were banned for botting. There are three runescapes Rs1 (currently closed as of June), Rs2 (currently named Old School Runescape or, OSRS, 2007Scape) and is a backup of runescape from 2007, Rs3 which has gotten a lot of hate because "it is more complicated than the first two"-JMOD. Runescape is a adventure game where players can Fight Monsters, Train Different Levels, and Do Quests. But recently a celebrity player called The Old Nite has died of lung cancer and Runescape made a Statue in his honor. Old School runescape Mobile is being released to the public on October 31 for a Halloween Suprise to most players. Although runescape may have only one vote its still a trending game.

Fortnite

The fortnite crase has slowed down a bit, but it's still going strong. With Fortnite being released just over a year ago on July 25, 2017 it is still one of the most popular games ever. I bet you have noticed you don't hear about Fortnite as much. With Fortnite being free to play it's not a surprise that it has over 125 million downloads. I bet some of you have heard about Fortnite but don't know what it's all about. Fortnite has two different modes, battle royal and save the world. Fortnite battle royal is an online multiplayer game. There are three different options as to how you play the game. You can play solo, you can play with one other person in duos, or you can play with three other players in squads. In the battle royal mode you play against 99 other players trying to by the last player standing. In the the game you collect guns, medical supplies, shield potions. You might ask "If Fortnite is free how does it make money?". Fortnite releases skins or characters, pickaxes, gliders, and emotes. These thing can range from $10 to $25. The other mode is called save the world. In save the world you can play with up to three other players to defeat computer controlled waves of zombies. In the is mode you harvest materials to create cover, traps, and weapons. This mode is not free it costs $39.99 so that also brings in some money. Fortnite brings in $300 million dollars a month. Based on the survey Fortnite is the most popular game in Horizon's 8th grade. Out of the 106 responses fortnite received 38 or 35.8% of the votes.

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Tetris

Тетрис was the first tetris game released in 1984 by a russian game developer, but it got much bigger when it was released to arcades, and home computers. But the true reason tetris is as big as it is today is because it was relased on the nintendo gameboy in 1989 and spread like wildfire and they still make games to this day. Fun fact when tetris was first released to the United States it was called Tetris The Soviet Mind Game. Tetris is a puzzle game where you must move falling blocks to fill rows and and when you fill a row you get points. Tetris may be a old game but Its still known by most of us and It still can be a trend.

Tecmo Bowl

One of the responses for the teachers favorite game was Tecmo Bowl . Tecmo Bowl was released in 1989. Tecmo Bowl was the first game to feature real NFL players. In this game you could chose from 12 teams but they were not real NFL teams. They mimicked NFL teams. Each team had 4 plays in their play book usually 2 run and 2 pass. From what I have heard the best player in this game was Bo Jackson. I heard he could run from his endzone to the other end zone and back without getting tackled. I've found that Tecmo bowl was a nintendo game as well as an arcade game. Tecmo bowl is no longer trending but it is a lot like Madden which is trending today.