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The Lifespan of The Nintendo Entertainment System
Via Press the Buttons, a node over at Everything2 with an excellent synopsis of the lifespan of the Nintendo Entertainment System. It details the background of the video game industry at the time that the NES came onto the stage, the launch and the peak of its success, and the factors that led to the console's eventual decline. From the writeup: "In the aftermath of the home video game crash in 1983, nobody in North America seemed to want anything more to do with video games. Having been burned by the atrociously bad Atari 2600 games flooding the market and the rise of the home computer, both retailers and parents, and to a lesser degree gamers, were reluctant to risk their hard-earned money on another console. Analysts claimed that video games were yet another fad in an infamously faddish time that came and went and now are gone."
Yes, but NES games lack immersion. I mean, how many times have I shot that fucking dog, only to leave him unscathed?
English is easier said than done.
I don't know, I think Duck Hunt was pretty real. Don't tell me I'm the only one that used a treadmill as a trench and ducked behind it, shooting the ducks from behind cover.
2 = so many?
What strange land do you come from, where descriptions of amounts are always exaggerated?
Obviously you weren't a dedicated player insistent on perfection. In those later rounds, every bullet is precious, and not to be wasted on hopelessly firing at the dog. Of course, beyond round 18 (or maybe 20?) if the dog has opportunity laugh, the game is over.
Round 62, baby! Three times, the score rolled over back to zero. Then my mom shut it off. I'd never been so angry. I was gonna take a photo and send it to Nintendo Power and everything. But that dream was crushed.
And just try to find someone to fix a busted ps2 or xbox. The support isnt the same.
That's because it was really easy to service a NES. Fixing any problem on the Nintendo went something like this:
Pick up cartrige
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Pick up Nintendo
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Repeat until disired results are accomplished.
I was actually crazy enough to call up my local library to see if they had this book in stock. The librarian laughed her ass off, and she hung up on me.
I then bought the book later. Sat on the toilet for literally half a day, and read a record 300 pages. Damn glad I didn't take the librarian seriously.
Half a day on the toilet? DAMN! Could you walk afterwards? May I suggest a bed pan?
Everybody I know came up with special magic smacking-the-side-of-the-case patterns that got the NES to read the cartridge. Smack left-left-right-blow-smack top-play....*red* *red* FUCK!
I've inherited my late Grandpa's old NES with low mileage, so I don't have to deal with that anymore.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.