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Re: Revolution controller: No Buttons, No Sticks, All Touch Screen
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| Michael Cargill 2005-03-30, 6:51 am |
| "Leon Dexter" <leondexterNOSPAM@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Michael Cargill" <mikementalist@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> face -
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> 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
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> many of the old arcade games. Try calling Pac-Man "not a classic" and see
> how far you get.
There is no 'maybe' about it at all, it is all down to pure opinion - and
for anyone to try and pass it off as any sort of fact is an idiot.
I see nothing wrong with not thinking that Pac-Man is a classic. I
personally don't see the original Star Wars film as a classic, to me it is
vastly overrated.
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> 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.
The games market on the whole, at least here in the UK and probably Europe,
was doing well enough without Nintendo.
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> is
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> Not really--I don't think anyone is claiming Nintendo is heroic or evil.
A
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> 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).
Oh please. How on earth did Nintendo define video games?!? There were
plenty of developers releasing games on the home computers before Nintendo
released the NES.
And name me these genres that you claim Nintendo invented. They certainly
didn't invent the platformer.
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