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Nintendo GameCube Clone Out In Japan
Jon F writes: "I saw this picture on Yahoo! today, it looks like Nintendo decided to license out the GameCube to Panasonic to make a clone. It's a hybrid DVD player/GameCube that came out in Toyko today. The only other article I came across about this was on IGN a few months ago. It has a mirrored surface and trippy purple lights on the controller port." Gaming guts (and purple bits) aside, this is one of the nicest-looking DVD players I've seen. Update: 11/01 23:50 GMT by T : As several readers have pointed out, this looks like just a tease for now, but will be out (in Japan) next month.
I heard ATARI bought out Com mode door 64 awhile back, but that was when the TRS-80 said dude, your decks got none of this, check DEC out, yeah its all APPLE bad, but then, WHO dropped in HAL goes, DUDE, where the freak is my panda modem.
Oh yeah back in that time forgot. 8)
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I've been playing with nintendo systems since I was 5 years old, and I think that, with the notable exeptions of zelda and mario 64, everything nintendo since after the snes just sucks. I hope the gamecube has some decent RPGs, and no fraggin' pokemon. Ye hairy flippin' gods, I hate those things.
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Anyhow. Isn't that what Venture Capitalists and Investors do? Spread the risk, but give a return on investment if you do well? Sega, Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft have all been doing this.
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You may have a large Canadian penis, but with the exchange rate, it's still small by world standards.
Sometimes I get a little fixated on meat products. By the way, how hard would it be to add a spell checker to /.?
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Mmmmmm...You are such a tease.
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RTFJ.
The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every /. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC...
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
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"Adequacy.org: Where congenital stupidity is not an option, but a requirement."
Just as an OT point, the Laser was branded from Plymouth, and both it and the Talon had Chrysler badges on them. It's not a perfect analogy, as there wasn't exactly licensing at work there; all 3 brands rolled off the same line and were identical until the nameplates were added.
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Actually that's not funny at all, karma whore.