[Deepblue]

Despite what people tell you:

Any publicity =/= good publicity.

For example, do the PSP "I'd hit that!!!111222" crazy squirrel ads really make you want a PSP, or do they make you want to hate it?

[vyper]

The crazy what now?

[aldo_14]

The crazy what now?

Must be US.

[Cobra]

The crazy what now?

Squirrel please... Get those acorns out and live, brotha!

[aldo_14]

The crazy what now?

Squirrel please... Get those acorns out and live, brotha!

I'll repeat what vyper said.

What in the name of **** are you people babbling about?

[Deepblue]

Don't say I didn't warn you.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2236974036484309509&pl=true

[aldo_14]

Right, well that's ****e.  Very american, I note.

On the other hand, you did remember it, so it's working on some level.  The 'I won't buy that because the advert is so ****ing insultingly awful' level, natch.

[Dough with Fish]

[vyper]

roofle @ that last panel

[Cobra]

I got a huge kick out of that one when i first saw it.

[Cobra]

oh, and for those who have never seen a VGCats comic (well, except the one above this ):

[Ulala]

Despite what people tell you:

Any publicity =/= good publicity.

For example, do the PSP "I'd hit that!!!111222" crazy squirrel ads really make you want a PSP, or do they make you want to hate it?

True, but knowing it's going to be called "Wii" doesn't make me hate it. I haven't seen any Wii commercials that make me hate it yet.

[Shadow0000]

Excuse me ngtm1r, I have a few pages of it, see:

The Sonic the Hedgehog manga series was based off of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The series, published in Shogakukan's Shogaku Yonensei (literally "fourth-year student") was written by Kenji Terada and it was illustrated by Sango Norimoto.

The manga, which started in 1992, was about a hedgehog boy named Nicky who can turn into Sonic the Hedgehog. Along with Miles "Tails" Prower, Sonic fights Dr. Eggman (known at that time in North America and Europe as "Dr. Robotnik").

Nicky has several friends in the "real world", including little John, the his girlfriend Amy (a prototype/first incarnation of many versions of Amy Rose as she is known today), a lizard bully named Anton Beruuka with his little brother, Matt, and Charmy Bee (a prototype/first incarnation of the many versions of Charmy Bee in a variety of diverse Sonic storylines). Nicky's family at home includes his mother, Brenda, his father, Paulie, and his little sister, Anita.

The series Sonic X (2003) is just a compilation of Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, however it has some similarities specially the "real world" part, but in the compilation a lot of plot is distorted, even the games's plot which is official (made by Sonic Team)

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True, but knowing it's going to be called "Wii" doesn't make me hate it. I haven't seen any Wii commercials that make me hate it yet.

Nintendo is famous for his commercials, specially about games, something which I never get to see from other companies like Sega or Sony (Sony did once, but it pissed so much Christians, that I bet they never wanted to make one again).

Even with a name like that I still prefer Specs, not because of power, but it is what sometimes make a company to decide over which platform will develop the game, if the company can choose and the specs are good they will go to it, resulting in a more variety of game.
That's the N64 story, where Nintendo believed a console with 64 Bit with "Fast Loading times", due to the Cartridges, would attract people, and not only people, but a lot companies decided to go with the Sony to develop their games because the capacity storage of the CD was much higher and much more cheaper than a cartridge...

[Mefustae]

Here's hoping that Big N'll keep up with their usual tradition of building their consoles to withstand f***ing nuclear detonations. After 6 years of regular use, countlessly being dropped on the ground, covered in spilled drinks and generally kicked around, my N64 is still going strong and never given me a wink of trouble. The original Playstation on the other hand... my mate went through 3 of 'em in 3 years, and he treats his consoles well...

[Shadow0000]

Here's hoping that Big N'll keep up with their usual tradition of building their consoles to withstand f***ing nuclear detonations. After 6 years of regular use, countlessly being dropped on the ground, covered in spilled drinks and generally kicked around, my N64 is still going strong and never given me a wink of trouble. The original Playstation on the other hand... my mate went through 3 of 'em in 3 years, and he treats his consoles well...

 ...Cartridge consoles are eternal, I still have a Famicom and a NES working after so many years, however the production of the games for the N64 ended years before than the PS1 game production, even when the N64 was newer by a year or so...I still have my PS1 and even without need of any service support is still ok...the problem was known by most users:

Many consumers also were not happy that the PlayStation's laser pickup housing that rested on parts of the traverse path and was susceptible to friction to this part would form a groove if used extensively over time. This caused the pickup to rest at an angle instead of being perfectly perpendicular to the plane of the irridescent side of the disc. As a result, many people started experiencing longer loading times, and other loading problems. Users remedied this by flipping the console up vertically, correcting the laser aim and restoring read performance. However, this would prove temporary as the upper part of the pickup housing would start to groove and cause the problem to occur again, but in an opposite direction. Nevertheless, many consumers were forced to buy multiple PlayStations to replace broken ones due to this problem. This problem was mainly found in the first generation of PlayStation consoles, model SCPH-1001. Later revisions and models would employ corrections to the optical pickup construction, including the use die-cast metals and more durable plastics instead of the softer plastic materials that were used in the older pickups.

My PS1 is working upside-down or in other weird position, I have to tell that explanation endless times to all people who was surprised of "why it is that position?". Aside from that you have to manage with care CD's, something that isn't needed for Cartridge, aside from myself most of my friends seemed to have lunch, drink, dinner with the CDs, aside from play like "Revolution X" with them...

[NGTM-1R]

Excuse me ngtm1r, I have a few pages of it, see:

The Sonic the Hedgehog manga series was based off of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. The series, published in Shogakukan's Shogaku Yonensei (literally "fourth-year student") was written by Kenji Terada and it was illustrated by Sango Norimoto.

The manga, which started in 1992, was about a hedgehog boy named Nicky who can turn into Sonic the Hedgehog. Along with Miles "Tails" Prower, Sonic fights Dr. Eggman (known at that time in North America and Europe as "Dr. Robotnik").

Nicky has several friends in the "real world", including little John, the his girlfriend Amy (a prototype/first incarnation of many versions of Amy Rose as she is known today), a lizard bully named Anton Beruuka with his little brother, Matt, and Charmy Bee (a prototype/first incarnation of the many versions of Charmy Bee in a variety of diverse Sonic storylines). Nicky's family at home includes his mother, Brenda, his father, Paulie, and his little sister, Anita.

This sounds suspiciously like a dojin being misrepresented to me. Furthermore checking about on SonicHQ and CuLt produced no information on the supposed manga.

[aldo_14]

The N64 had the most impact-resistant controllers in recorded history.  They built black boxes out of the same material*.


*Lie

[Grug]

The N64 had the most impact-resistant controllers in recorded history.  They built black boxes out of the same material*.


*Lie

Except the anologue stick. They had a tendency to wear out after a while. Ie. Many, many hours of gaming.
More so if your a violent player. (not me...)

[Mefustae]

Except the anologue stick. They had a tendency to wear out after a while. Ie. Many, many hours of gaming.
More so if your a violent player. (not me...)

Or a single session of Mario Party with a bunch of mates. I swear, they engineered the goddamn game to destroy controllers to screw us into buying more... but, as they say...

[Grug]

Except the anologue stick. They had a tendency to wear out after a while. Ie. Many, many hours of gaming.
More so if your a violent player. (not me...)

Or a single session of Mario Party with a bunch of mates. I swear, they engineered the goddamn game to destroy controllers to screw us into buying more... but, as they say...

Ah yes, that bloody game was infamous for destroying controllers!