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Offline Skippy

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #120 on: May 07, 2006, 07:00:50 am
And palms too, by the way :P
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #121 on: May 07, 2006, 02:45:47 pm
I think me and my bro destroyed ours with Smash Bros and twirling Bowser on Mario 64. :lol:
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #122 on: May 07, 2006, 04:23:13 pm
We'd go crazy in Mario Party twirling our analog sticks, but managed to never break one. *shrugs*
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #123 on: May 07, 2006, 07:10:35 pm
See, feel the nintendo love! :D
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #124 on: May 07, 2006, 07:54:32 pm
[kinda off-topic] Have any of you ever seen a random little kid just walking around playing Nintendo DS or Gameboy Advance SP, and just want to hit them or something? One time, I was in the grocery store, and I saw this 6 or 7 year old sitting on a cart watching a movie on a PSP, alone. Is it just me, or is that in some way wrong? [/kinda off-topic]
 

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #125 on: May 07, 2006, 07:59:16 pm
Sounds like easy pickins for any sicko to me.

[edit] Also, sounds like the parents* fault to me, as opposed to the company that manufactures the PSP/DS/SP/etc.

*neglecting, irresponsible, and unintelligent entities

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #126 on: May 07, 2006, 08:02:38 pm
Quote from: thesizzler on May 07, 2006, 07:54:32 pm
[kinda off-topic] Have any of you ever seen a random little kid just walking around playing Nintendo DS or Gameboy Advance SP, and just want to hit them or something? One time, I was in the grocery store, and I saw this 6 or 7 year old sitting on a cart watching a movie on a PSP, alone. Is it just me, or is that in some way wrong? [/kinda off-topic]

Cart? As in Trolley?
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #127 on: May 08, 2006, 02:56:53 am
Quote from: thesizzler on May 07, 2006, 07:54:32 pm
[kinda off-topic] Have any of you ever seen a random little kid just walking around playing Nintendo DS or Gameboy Advance SP, and just want to hit them or something? One time, I was in the grocery store, and I saw this 6 or 7 year old sitting on a cart watching a movie on a PSP, alone. Is it just me, or is that in some way wrong? [/kinda off-topic]

Dunno about wrong per se (because it could be a generation/perception shift type thing), but if they're doing it instead of playing outside or soforth, it's certainly unhealthy.   I can't understand why anyone would ever choose to play any  computer games ahead of proper play or actual physical excercise, but if your mum dumps you in a shopping trolley.....
  

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #128 on: May 08, 2006, 03:16:19 am
I always liked the codename "revolution" way past more than "wii"...
 :blah:

It seems always like this to me, first Windows Vista was referred as much cooler (IMO) "Longhorn"
Then it was changed to much lamer "Vista"

I wonder, if it some kind of marketing plot to get people interested....
 :doubt:

Well, bad name or not, I'm still going to buy it...after the price drops considerably that is.... :D
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #129 on: May 08, 2006, 06:13:05 am
First the geeks and nerds within the engineering/programming part of the company give it a cool name.

Later marketing fools change it to something they think people will have doubts about pronouncing.

It's a vicious cycle.
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #130 on: May 08, 2006, 06:14:24 am
Quote from: Ghostavo on May 08, 2006, 06:13:05 am
First the geeks and nerds within the engineering/programming part of the company give it a cool name.

Later marketing fools change it to something they think people will have doubts about pronouncing.

It's a vicious cycle.

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #131 on: May 08, 2006, 07:03:30 am
Quote from: aldo_14 on May 08, 2006, 06:14:24 am
At the moment, I'm working on bits and bobs of projects (at work) called 'Aura' and 'Lahaina'.  Now, can anyone guess what they are?

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #132 on: May 08, 2006, 08:50:38 am
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6149308.html

Interesting..... Maybe there is more you can hurt besides your eyes and fingers playing games. ;7
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #133 on: May 08, 2006, 09:46:39 am
Quote from: WeatherOp on May 08, 2006, 08:50:38 am
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6149308.html

Interesting..... Maybe there is more you can hurt besides your eyes and fingers playing games. ;7

The tennis game sounds fascinating.  I'm not entirely sure, though, how well that sort of literal type of use will transfer to the controller without some form of heavy haptic feedback - unless that's the big controller secret to be revealed by Ninty at E3.

EDIT; apparently, there is a Wii Star Wars game in development....with the lightsaber being controlled by the, er, wavy controller.
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Offline Ulala

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #134 on: May 08, 2006, 11:47:34 am
Wario Ware sounds fun. I can only imagine how much crazier Mario Party is going to get..  ;)
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #135 on: May 08, 2006, 12:09:45 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on May 08, 2006, 09:46:39 am
EDIT; apparently, there is a Wii Star Wars game in development....with the lightsaber being controlled by the, er, wavy controller.

I saw this coming, but I'm still not sure how effective it'd be without a physical representation of your opponent...or a really, really friggin' huge TV.
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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #136 on: May 08, 2006, 01:00:45 pm
Quote from: ngtm1r on May 08, 2006, 12:09:45 pm
Quote from: aldo_14 on May 08, 2006, 09:46:39 am
EDIT; apparently, there is a Wii Star Wars game in development....with the lightsaber being controlled by the, er, wavy controller.

I saw this coming, but I'm still not sure how effective it'd be without a physical representation of your opponent...or a really, really friggin' huge TV.

Yeah, that's what I was alluding to RE: the tennis game too.  I think it'll depend a lot on how intuitive moving the controller in 'time' to the screen is; doing it well would make it instantly ace, otherwise it'd be a disaster.
 

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #137 on: August 11, 2006, 12:01:51 pm
 

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #138 on: August 11, 2006, 12:13:58 pm
(and is secretly a dude)...

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Re: Nindendo marketing strangles Revolution at birth
Reply #139 on: August 11, 2006, 04:13:26 pm
Quite humorous.
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