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trinityvixenI know most of my f'list reads Penny Arcade, but this article Tycho linked to pretty much makes the case for why I dislike Nintendo. It's more than that, but it helps illustrate a point.
For starters, I never was into Nintendo as a kid. My babysitter's place--a daycare at her house, sorta--had the SNES with Mario and Duck Hunt and all those classic old games, but I never played. I watched, and that was entertaining because it was different from what I could do at home, but it never really impressed me and as such I have no long-standing Nintendo character love. I think I watched the Super Mario Bros show when it was on TV, but that's about it.
After the console, there's the portables, and, make no mistake, I thought the GameBoy the pinnacle of everything cool. Tetris! Woo! Never had one, myself, mostly because my older brother never got those three straight-A report cards in a row to earn one. By the time I got to a school where I could do that and actually accomplished that goal, the Sega GameGear was an option, and man, no GameBoy at the time could have measured up to that. I do still get nostalgic about Ecco the Dolphin, though...
Anyway, what always impressed on me was that the thing that made Nintendo great were the first-party games, and this article pretty much says the same thing. If I don't love Zelda to death, there's no point in getting excited as the SNES swapped out for the N64 for the GC, for the Wii. I really don't care. The breadth of titles aren't there, a lot of promised titles never make it, the systems require re-buying games (yes, yes, yes,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bigscary, I know the Wii will offer them for free or something close to it) because they were rarely interchangeable or backwards compatible, and to really enjoy the best games, you had to buy an equivalent amount to the original investment of money in add-ons (whereas the PS and PS2 did just fine with the two-person games, thanks).
Yeah, read the article. It sounds less pissy than I do.
For starters, I never was into Nintendo as a kid. My babysitter's place--a daycare at her house, sorta--had the SNES with Mario and Duck Hunt and all those classic old games, but I never played. I watched, and that was entertaining because it was different from what I could do at home, but it never really impressed me and as such I have no long-standing Nintendo character love. I think I watched the Super Mario Bros show when it was on TV, but that's about it.
After the console, there's the portables, and, make no mistake, I thought the GameBoy the pinnacle of everything cool. Tetris! Woo! Never had one, myself, mostly because my older brother never got those three straight-A report cards in a row to earn one. By the time I got to a school where I could do that and actually accomplished that goal, the Sega GameGear was an option, and man, no GameBoy at the time could have measured up to that. I do still get nostalgic about Ecco the Dolphin, though...
Anyway, what always impressed on me was that the thing that made Nintendo great were the first-party games, and this article pretty much says the same thing. If I don't love Zelda to death, there's no point in getting excited as the SNES swapped out for the N64 for the GC, for the Wii. I really don't care. The breadth of titles aren't there, a lot of promised titles never make it, the systems require re-buying games (yes, yes, yes,
bigscary, I know the Wii will offer them for free or something close to it) because they were rarely interchangeable or backwards compatible, and to really enjoy the best games, you had to buy an equivalent amount to the original investment of money in add-ons (whereas the PS and PS2 did just fine with the two-person games, thanks).Yeah, read the article. It sounds less pissy than I do.
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Date: 2006-09-18 09:11 pm (UTC)I, for my part, haven't purchased a Nintendo console since the SNES, but I own every generation of the Game Boy. Because 1) It's the best portable system and have been for a decade, and 2) I'm SquareEnix's bitch.
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Date: 2006-09-19 01:08 am (UTC)As for the gameboy, I wonder if it and/or the DS will continue to enjoy domination with the PSP finally catching up in terms of games, hardware, etc. It seems to me that the people I know who like gaming as a whole (and own consoles as well) like the DS/GBA, but people on the subway who strike me as non-gamers (we can smell our own) tend to go for the PSP. The PSP is kinda like the one to get if you're "cool" (like a Razr phone) and the DS/GBA the one to get if you actually like spending hours on the thing gaming.
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Date: 2006-09-18 10:10 pm (UTC)*falls over laughing*
you know its funny, i cant even count the number of times i head you or him make refrence to this.
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Date: 2006-09-19 01:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 01:05 am (UTC)and for the record, before the PS2 i had an Atari 6800 and a Comador 64 computer, oh yeah, i am kicking it old skool. and i have them both at my parents house. And yes, they still work.
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Date: 2006-09-19 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 01:17 am (UTC)i still want to own Oregon Trail
or the olympicy games.