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The Future of Console Gaming, Part Deux
gmezero writes "The second part of my article on The Future of Console Gaming is now available. This part is 12 pages and features overviews on the successes and failures of Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Atari, as well as projections on the future plans of all but Atari. " We had linked to the first article - the second is along much of the same lines, in terms of style.
He's a designer and, more recently an executive producer. Very surprising that the author didn't realize this.
If I'm Sony, I'd try to cut a deal with AT&T to replace its cable descramblers with a descrambler-enhanced version of the Playstation 2. No matter what kind of losses I'd take on the console deal, I'm putting a DVD player and my console in 25% of U.S. households. Razor, meet razor blades...
Steven E. Ehrbar
You might want to check out the propinball series for PC. The next best thing to owning your own.
I was going to mention them also...
And the best thing is - not only do they provide a very convincing simulation of a real pinball machine (down to the ball hitting the glass), but the tables are well designed tables. Timeshock! would make a very good real machine.
Though it still can't quite replicate the experience of actually playing on a real machine. I know I'm picking up a machine or two as soon as I live somewhere with the room. (So sad that Williams has stopped making pinball machines - they've always made the very best ones)
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"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
A big round of applause for everyone over at Texas Instruments for keeping me (and countless others) entertained during high-school classes.
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"You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
Friends, I read this article, and I'm sure that many of the heathen posters here will try to dazzle you with official-sounding names like "Dreamcast" and "Playstation." Be steadfast, my friends, and don't let them sway you. Let's look at what some of those names actually mean.
.. lots. "Playstation" can be rearranged into "I Ply To Satan", which pretty much tells you where Sony's loyalties lie. If Sega's Dreamcast is bad because it uses the new-age false religion of yoga to lure children away from Christianity and therefore Absolute Morality, then Sony's Playstation is exponentially worse because it encourages children to ally themselves with the Prince of Darkness himself.
For example, the letters in the word "Dreamcast" can be rearranged to spell "Sacred Mat." This is clearly an invitation for young children to take part in the damned, liberal religion of yoga. Meditation! Criminy, friends! What's next? Sniffing airplane glue? Unfortunately for the "Dreamcast", it can also be rearranged to spell "Trade Scam", which is pretty much what it amounts to: a left-wing scam to part you and your money and put it in the pockets of liberal trial lawyers.
But the Sony Playstation is much worse. What does the Sony Corporation want to subliminally tell your children? Lots, friends
Friends, we can find out things like this about almost all gaming consoles. Even the famed "Colecovision" can be rearranged to give "Coco, I Love Sin!" What does this tell us, friends? It tells us that nearly all game consoles are a Satanic conspiracy to ensnare your children. Except for one, that is.
That platform is the Atari 2600. "Atari" can be rearranged to form nothing, other than the morally-ambiguous "I, A Rat." The Atari 2600 is the clear moral choice for platform gaming. Very few of its games display the sort of graphic violence that you will see in other consoles (with the exception of the ultra-violent Pitfall, which graphically depicts humans being eaten by crocodiles and started on fire.) Parents should provide their children with an Atari 2600, as a builder of morals and character. If Jesus were among us today, there can be little doubt that He would be an Atari 2600 enthusiast.
If you don't trust me, friends, you can verify all of this information for yourself in James Dobson's latest Focus on the Family Newslettter. In the same issue, you can also learn how several parents are investigating the sexual overtones to the television show title "Touched by an Angel."
Thank you for your time.
While everyone is looking at the future of console gaming, I found this link on Zophar's Domain... It's a history of Nintendo and how they transformed gaming and kept afloat despite competitors like Sony, Sega, and NEC.
The article is here at Video Games.Com.
Did you know that Nintendo is a company that is over 100 years old? If not, I suggest you go read the article - it's quite enlightening.
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