Nickelodeon is an American cable television channel owned by Viacom. It was launched in December 1, 1977 as "Pinwheel" and it stayed that way until 1981. Since the early 1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon expanded onto territories like Europe, the Middle-East, Russia and Asia. Canada was "conquered" by this brand in November 2, 2009. Nick, as known from its beginning, has children with ages between 2 and 7 as primary target, with the exception of their prime time block that is aimed at children ages 7–18. Since 2009, the television channel has three blocks: Hollywood Hang, Nick's Play Date, and Nick at Nite.

Under the logo "The first network for kids", Pinwheel was raised the bid as Nickelodeon. The original logo was represented by a silver pinball with Nickelodeon title in front in multicolor, but it was changed afterwards changed with the "orange splat" logo during a financier issue. Nickelodeon was drastically changed in six months of rebranding, going from the worst to the first.

Its programming is vast. Various types of program are broadcast on Nickelodeon in named programming blocks. Nickelodeon has Nick at Nite, broadcasting American sitcoms, Hollywood Hang, that offers features behind the scenes with stars from Nickelodeon's live action shows and Nick Play Date, targeted at preschool-age children. Also, the cable television has sister channels, like Nicktoons, Nick Jr., TeenNick, TV Land and former channels: Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids.

At http://www.nick.com/, the official site of Nickelodeon, there's a special link for games. There are over 775 games on this site, distributed on different categories. There are funny games that allow you to play with your favorite character. For example, if you click on the image of Otis from Barnyard, it takes you “Back at the barnyard”, where you can either chuck spiders and collect eggs, hunt coyotes on a chopper and even fend off intergalactic players. And that’s not all, there are 16 more games on this subject.

Furthermore, the games are split into categories: Spongebob Squarepants games, The Penguins of Madagascar games, ¡Carly games, Action games, Adventure Games, Puzzle games, Racing games, Spor games, Nick Arcade games, Addictive games, Neopets games, Shockwave games… Games you could just imagine they exist, games you never thought of. There’s everything for every children in every corner of the Universe. The internet page itself is a little Universe of its own!


It seems that at the top of the funny games lies SpongeBob SquarePants and his Cavity Crisis. With the description “Who knew brushing a Sponge’s teeth is FUN”, I started making my way through the mud. I must admit the game scared me a lot, making me older by minute, instead of making me feel like a child again. The game consisted in washing SpongeBob's mouth. So, we have a huge mouth in front of us, without any SpongeBob, and a toothbrush. We must take care that the teeth don't turn to yellow, fall or being attacked by candies with the help of that tool. While I had been washing its teeth, i felt anxious and anxious, because they just kept getting yellow and, at one point, I started chasing the evil candies away with the help of my magical toothbrush. I understood that I'm old enough to stop playing that game, but I wanted to see how that mouth looked if every teeth would have fallen. Fortunately, once it reached almost 7 yellow teeth and a fallen one, the game shut itself down. I don't know what parents would let their children play something like that, because the only thing I see there is learning through fear. And that does not sound like a happy childhood to me, but rather as a polity. Anyway, that is not my idea of fun!

Leaving aside the violent games with monsters and curses (aka the curse of PCA, where you have to help Chase rescue Zoe from a "marauding" ghost), I found a game about pollution solutions - The Penguins of Madagascar, a strategy game. There are four penguins who have to make it to a factory and destroy it, because it is a major polluter and the smoke is ruining sergeant's skin. The game is quite funny, each penguin has its own part in the story, and you have to figure it out. From what I could see, private is the most helpless one, he can not jump, he must be pushed under pylons and he is even used as a shield against a robot's gun.

All in all, there are indeed games for everyone to like, funny ones, on Nickelodeon. Finding it is like finding a friend: you have got to search a little, but you know that, eventually, you will find him!

Japan, the country born by the gods who stuck a sword in the ocean, has a lot of culture going around. The ikebana, the origami, the tea ceremony and not the last, the manga succeeded in giving it an exotic look.
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A short story of manga and anime industry

Manga is a comic book initially made by a fusion of traditional woodblock (ukiyo-e) printing and Western art. It took the current form shortly after World War II,  influencing the television and thus creating the anime. In 1958, studio Toei screened the first anime feature film, "The Tale of the White Serpent", which marked the beginning of the animation industry. Then, in 1962, the first anime TV show was screened by studio Otogi. It concerned historical cartoons in black and white. One year after that, Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga" has founded the Mushi productions and released his first anime series, "Tetsuwan Atom". This was the start of an anime boom, that occurred in 1963. Between1987-1992, The wings of Honneamise was released, making anime officially an art form. This kind of animation became popular in the entire world. From here to video games it was just a small step.

Naruto, the cursed boy

Naruto Uzumaki is the main character of Naruto Series. He's the first character to be created by Kishimoto during the initial conceptions of the series, being designed to have a whole lot of features of other shonen creations, including Son Goku of "Dragon Ball Z". Naruto is a ninja affiliated with the Konoha village, dreaming of becoming a Hokage, or the leader of the village. Due to the fact that the Nine Tales Fox is being trapped in his body, he's being ostracized by the other villagers. He makes up to this with the help of his personality and, during the series, he manages to make friends among other ninjas from his village and other ones, as well. He has a very strong bondage with his ninja colleague, Sasuke Uchiha, treating him like a brother.

Testing ninja abilities online games

Because this anime presents a story of a young boy who wishes to be the best ninja, the online Naruto games focus on this detail. They try to catch the player's attention by putting him to make the same exercises Naruto and his team used to do in the beginning, like climbing a tree, to see how great their "Chakra" is , guessing which one is the real ninja Zabuza from the Village of the Hidden Mist, among him and his clones or even escorting Tazuna safely to his home in the Land of Waves.



Of course, there are a lot  of Naruto online games which involve the dodging of the knives, to test the team's abilities, and even fighting, but I've also found a... dressing up Naruto game! Although the game is loading pretty hard, the amusement of seeing Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke as little children and having to dress them up is great. Plus, if you wait long enough, the three characters start showing their special powers: Sakura shows her other personality, Naruto - his power of controlling the Nine Tales Fox and Sasuke, his Sharingan eye and his curse.

Needless to say, the dating online games couldn't miss from here! For example, there's Sakura, the girl Naruto has a crush on, and she must train herself to be more charming and brainy. That's why you have to take her to study, to increase her "Chakra", to buy flowers, for increasing her charm, to complete quests, etc. She can also have small discussions with Naruto, Sasuke or Lee, the guy with one eyebrow. According to her answers, she can either flirt or upset them. If she has trained long enough, she can fight one of the three guys or go on a date with the person whom she very cordially spoke  to.

The Naruto online games are designed  in flash, thus they don't catch the eye by design. They're basically designed to be played by fans who either don't care about the looks, are just nostalgic or really want to take Naruto on a date with Sakura!

There are various forms of having fun. Since technology developed its branches and the Internet became a necessity for many of us, free online games earned a unique charm. Of course, you do not need special abilities to manage on a virtual environment or a lot of free time, but you do need a good computer network service and the pleasure to enjoy this type of games. Everyone enjoys playing games no matter their design or their difficulties. The varieties of free online games are multiple. Nevertheless, games are developed using a series of rules. Everybody knows that playing games is not an activity appeared with the development of technology.
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On the other hand, there are advantages and disadvantages concerning technological development and the domain of games is also affected. Why is that? Because free online games are, no doubt, interesting and enshrouded with a certain mystery but they can also harm us. Not us, the adults, in a particular way, but especially children and adolescents who are extremely vulnerable at their ages. We should maintain a specific limit between the pleasure for games and their design and aims. Indeed, there are a lot of interesting games, from strategy games to fight games, from funny games to games testing your IQ.

The universe of free online games was not developed this century.

On the contrary, it exists since this society of computer network initiated its branches. Up to a point before the Internet people used modems to play their favourite games and before modems hard wired terminals. Needless to say free online games nowadays represent actually the reflection of a virtual expansion of computer network services to the access to the Internet itself. But an online game is not so easy to design. It must have a special graphics or it has distinct forms of difficulty. There are games intended not only for children of adolescents, there are games designed for adults, as well. The most known adult free online games are those testing your IQ. In addition to these, most of free online games have developed even forums or communities where the players or users speak about the games or express their personal opinions regarding different issues related to the game. You should know that a game is not just graphics, virtual players or popularity.

Paradoxically, a game expresses through its pragmatics a complexity of components, from audio and video packages of devices to an entire intellectual strategy. People designing a game are not common. They are endowed with a complex intelligence but they create free online games to a specific community, taking into consideration various issues, like age, sex, religion, nationality and the like. They must a specific browser or a web server if the game has multi-players. But multiplayer online games are active thanks to the growth of broadband Internet access. So, the Internet access is crucial when speaking about playing online free games. On the other hand, the permanent growing number of the players makes difficult the social order in online games because of the freedom they receive.