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Sticking up for Nintendo

Posted by Zonk on from the i've-always-had-mario's-back dept.

Reader jasoncart wrote in to give us a heads up on an editorial over on Ferrago. In it, the author defends Nintendo from its numerous detractors. From the article: "I love Nintendo and make no apology for it. I admit still that they annoy me like no other company in the gaming world. They can be at times simply utterly frustrating, I know that too well, but how shall I put it? Love is true but comes at a price. It's the one that is closest to you that can hurt you most."

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  1. An Article About a Fanboy? by Jagasian · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fanboyism is lame. I have to admit that Nintendo does a good job of designing great games, but they also do allot of bad things and have some gamers that are just average (though no stinkers). Nintendo's biggest failures are, roughly in order:

    0. All of the lame censorship starting with the NES.

    1. Error-proned front loading NES when Japanese version was top-loading.

    2. All of the evil empire crap surrounding Tetris at the time of the NES. Atari *cough* I mean Tengen's version was better.

    3. Hell, all of the evil empire crap surrounding the NES and even the Gameboy.

    4. Delaying the release of the SNES, allowing Sega to get a few breathes of air.

    5. No blood in the first SNES Mortal Kombat, which further allowed the Genesis a little more legitimacy.

    6. Virtual Boy: gimmic is not innovation. However, it would be innovative to have stereoscopic in today's world, where 3D can be done right. Make it color the next time around please.

    7. Losing Square to Sony.

    8. Most stuff related to the N64. A few good games is not enough.

    Now Nintendo has had strong successes:
    1. Great games and game franchises.
    2. NES
    3. SNES
    4. Gameboy (Pocket, Color, Advance, SP)