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Re: Revolution controller: No Buttons, No Sticks, All Touch Screen
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| Leon Dexter 2005-03-30, 6:51 am |
| "Michael Cargill" <mikementalist@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> No, because Julius Caeser being a historical figure is an undeniable
face -
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> but those games being classics is pure opinion.
Pure opinion, maybe, but it's such a widely held opinion (among people who
care, ie. gamers) that it's pretty much accepted as fact. Same goes for so
many of the old arcade games. Try calling Pac-Man "not a classic" and see
how far you get.
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> Yeah, because the likes of Atari, Commodore, Amstrad, etc. never existed.
You need a history lesson. The console market crashed and died after its
initial popularity. It was gone, dismissed as a fad. Nintendo, with the
NES and its killer app, Super Mario Bros, revived the market. That's not
opinion, it's history.
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> Only in your opinion. A better analogy would be how someone like Stalin
is
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> a hero to some and a monster to others.
Not really--I don't think anyone is claiming Nintendo is heroic or evil. A
better analogy would be me claiming the Beatles are responsible for rock
music as we know it, and that their music is classic, and you nay-saying
because you don't like the Beatles. That would be an exact parallel. The
Beatles didn't invent Rock and Roll, but they did define it. Just like
Nintendo didn't invent video games, but they did define them, in several
genres (some of which they invented).
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