Nintendo, Square - Embarrassing?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday July 20, 2003 @02:54AM from the controversial-but-entertaining dept.

Thanks to EvilAvatar for pointing to a recent update at the sadly semi-retired ToastyFrog site, in which Nintendo and Square are added to the list of The 20 Most Embarrassing Game Companies. A gentle roasting is applied to Nintendo for being "..called the gaming equivalent of Walt Disney. Partly because their work is innovative, polished and marketable, but also because a pervasive stench of evil hovers over the company", and a similar treatment is applied to Square, of which ToastyFrog posits: "Which is worse, the company, its fanboys or its ex-fanboys? The world may never know." However, this tongue-in-cheek cynicism produces plenty of good points, most notably Square's Tom Sawyer RPG as a "terrible cultural hiccup."

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Goond journalism by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 11:10 · Score: 1, Funny

I am truly amazed at the journalistic integrity in this article :

1943.
An ancient, slumbering Lovecraftian deity is resurrected in a pagan rite by Nazi scientists. He slaughters them and escapes to Japan, where he assumes the name Hiroshi Yamauchi and violently takes over Nintendo. Soon afterward, "Yamauchi" forges a pact with the American Walt Disney Corporation [4] allowing Nintendo to borrow Disney's characters for cards.