25 Dumbest Moments In Gaming Concluded

Thanks to Gamespy for finishing up its 25 Dumbest Moments In Gaming set of articles by picking their Top 5 mistakes of all time. We ran a story on these articles earlier in the week, and congratulate Slashdot commenter Saige for correctly guessing Gamespy's No.1 pick, Atari passing on producing and distributing the NES Stateside. Plus, well done to, uhm, pretty much everyone for guessing a certain long-haired FPS designer might make it into the Top 5 somewhere.

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John Romero

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long-haired FPS designer

Damnit, get your facts right! John Romero cut his hair! (scroll down)

Re:It's very easy to be smart in hindsight

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I can't believe the non-backlit GBA sold so well.

When I heard the GBA was coming out I was ready to buy it. I was thinking WOW, all these great SNES games portable (I never copuld afford a SNES). Then the reviews rolled in. Barly playable on a bus, unplayable on a subway. I tried one in a store and it was awful.

Anyway the SP came out and I was happy, but $99 dollors was my price point, and probably a lot of peoples. $100 just seems too high (sad yet true, I am a sucker). I do wish the GBA had six buttons, especialy since it had a SNES controlerish form factor at first.

I also with it had enough flash ROM to save a game state (oviously too much money then). Saved game states are great (damned emulators spoiling me).