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Re: Revolution controller: No Buttons, No Sticks, All Touch Screen
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| electroscopillan 2005-03-30, 3:47 am |
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"crymad" <crymadSPAMBLOCK@xprt.net> wrote in message
news:114k42fhkhvggae@corp.supernews.com...
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> electroscopillan wrote:
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> No, the monitor was a part of the Vectrex console, no additional
> purchase required. As for not going far, the homebrew scene for
> Vectrex is still very alive, with hobbyists today creating games
> for it. That Star Wars arcade game with vector graphics is a
> classic, and a forefather of Starfox.
Ya I knew that, guess what I really meant to say was that the need for the
monitor made it an expensive investment at the time, didn't it? I know
their hella pricey nowadays. Regardless, the vectrex system is only popular
now because of the recent mass-interest in retro-gaming - especially for
oddities and rarities, of which it is one. In it's time, the Vectrex home
system didn't get very far from what I've read about it.
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> Who cares who invented what? Well, patent holders, for one.
> Nintendo sure as hell cares they invented the D-pad. Also,
> students of history care. Otherwise, one runs the risk of coming
> off like a rank fool when spouting misinformation. As to the
> Vectrex controller sucking, you really ought to track one down and
> give it a try before passing judgment. It's a marvelous system.
Well, I guess I wrote that in light of the assumption that none of you guys
reading and writing on this thread are actually patent holders. Maybe you
are, I don't really know. What I was trying to say is that there is a
difference between a *base* idea, and it's actualization in it's most
efficient/perfect manifestation. ie: the difference between a TRS-80 piece
of shiza analog stick, and a GC one - including any programming algorithms
that tweak it's functionability, (not saying that GC controllers are
perfect, at all.. ..but that is their end-goal). Patent holders can file
their lawsuits if they see it appropriate in any case that crosses a line..
...that's not my or your business, is it really? I think I am actually just
in concurence with you on your feelings about Nintendo's D-pad patent..
...it's just.. ...silly, really. Regarding Vectrex controllers.. ..I
apologize for the assertion (every older analog stick I've ever played on
was haggard). I'm envious you've had the opportunity to actually play one.
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> You're right, references to military applications wouldn't be that
> interesting in a discussion of videogame history.
I was just sort of joking about how deconstructive this thread has become..
...lets do a break-down on how
http://inventors.about.com/library/...ogames.htm#pong
actually influenced/created the whole videogame industry as a whole - and
that Nintendo, Sony, MS, Sega, etc., owe their existence/financial-position
to these inventors, and leave it at that? =)
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> But references
> to legitimate videogame systems with innovations that pre-date
> their appropriation by Nintendo are most certainly interesting.
> Very interesting, right, Leon?
I guess they are interesting/confusing, if you're a person who thinks that
Nintendo somehow holds a divine command over other systems/companies.
Everything leading up to Nintendo's instanciation was the Lord's Plan, only
necessary as preparations for the coming of the prophesized NES, Super-Nes,
and so forth, on until, Revelations.. ..or "Revolution", as they've so
deftly cute-ified it.
These are end-times folks.
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