innovated primarily john carmack sony playstation sega saturn nintendo among consoles sold millions popularized graphics home gamers certain late first generation titles became seen influential popularizing graphics among console users platform games ''super mario '' ''the legend zelda ocarina time'' early fighting games like ''virtua fighter'' ''battle arena toshinden'' ''tekken'' technology algorithms rendering continued improve greatly krishnamurty levoy invented normal mapping improvement jim blinn 's bump mapping saw nvidia release
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