Nintendogs isn't simplistic, in my opinion. It's kind of a sandbox game in that there is very little that you are actually required to do. I got it as a gift (games where the game gets mad at you if you leave it alone too long tend not to appeal to me).
More importantly, Nintendogs isn't an "ungame" is a fairly traditional type of game, a life sim which focuses on dogs instead of Tamagotchis or Sims. They even had one of these games for the Neo Geo pocket that never made it over here, Ganbare Neo Poke-kun.
Looks like the Sony shills are moderating today as well as making their pathetic comments. I hope somone will correct this by modding the parent of this post up!!
Supposedly there's already TheNineBillionNamesofGod@Home project. See, I want more people to do this because I look forward to watching the stars go out, on by one...
To be fair, part of the problem is that the UK has the same Supreme Executive President as the United States, currently. Him being George W. Bush.
Of course, Bush really only directs UK foriegn policy and some domestic policy. I'm sure he leaves the big decisions, such as whether to allow fox hunting or not, to the UK government.
Hey, Blair needs to think about his future, and a cushy job with the Carlyle Group is probably looking better and better.
Yes, people should never forget that in some towns the town council is just an extension of the largest land developers. Local governments can be even more prone to sleazy backdoor dealings than state and federal governments.
In some places, things are actually run by the Mafia! I'm serious here, especially in the Northeast.
The last thing I want is Tony Soprano deciding whether or not taking my property and legally turning it over to his cronies is a "public good."
What, you didn't get Gates of Zendocon? No Chip's Challenge? Slimeworld didn't send you?
Frankly, I couldn't understand (at the time... still can't) how people were happy with an original Gameboy. A monocolor screen, versus the Lynx (16-bit full color with hardware scaling and rotation (Mode 7 in Nintendo speak)).
As to your King's Quest comment, perhaps you'll find this amusing...
I could be wrong about this, but I think Maniac Mansion has alternate endings but no dead ends. Dead ends are a big problem in IF.
The best example is Infocom's Sorceror. There are a few complicated Time Travel puzzles in that game, one occuring almost at the very start of the game. If you don't solve it, the game lets you blithely go on, and get very far, never realizing that if you don't have the item from the first time travel puzzle, you'll never, ever beat the game! It won't tell you, "You lose!" either, you'll just wander around until you give up.
Well, I don't think he needs to worry about Total Recall:
It's based on a short story, called "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." I don't think anyone who read the story and saw the movie would see much of a connection between the two. (Hopefully, in the future, they'll stop putting "Total Recall was based on this," on the cover of PKD anthologies with the story in it.)
Besides which, remember the scene where Schwarzenegger's character pulls that guys arms off and then jokes that he'll see him at the party later? Classic cinema, and prescient of the man's approach to governing the state of California.
Essentially, I get from this that a lack of co-operation between the American and Japanese branches were it's biggest problem. (Oh, and Nintendo screwing them over with the Congress didn't help either.)
The Dreamcast would have had to have been a spectacular success to pull SEGA out of its financial doldrums, and the people at SEGA seemed to know it was a longshot (see the following article):
The ads star an actual senior managing director of the company, a man named Yukawa Hidekazu, who looks much like what you imagine Japanese salarymen look like. In the first, Yukawa eavesdrops on two kids saying, "Sega video games suck. Playstation is much better." Melancholy, Yukawa heads to a bar, gets drunk, and on his way home scuffles with some thugs, who beat him up. The commercial ends with him collapsed in the doorway of his house, as an offscreen voice exhorts, "Come on, Mr. Yukawa, get up!"
In the second ad, Yukawa is on a remote mountaintop, dressed in a business suit, talking to a group of seemingly friendly children who tell him that Sega has changed for the better. "Really?" he asks, at which point the children's eyes turn black and they scream, "No, it's a joke! We don't need Sega--we want Playstation!" The earth then opens beneath Yukawa and swallows him, just before he wakes up on the floor of his office to realize that his secretary has caught him daydreaming. The ad ends with him reflecting on his nightmare.
A while ago, I read a MAD comic strip about an old lady selling apple pies out of her house called "Mom's Apple Pies." It showed her bringing in baskets of fresh apples and happy customers leaving with their pies. Then, it showed a small pies shop, "Mom's Famous Pies," with different kind of pies than just apple. Then later, there's a large pie factory, "Mom's Pie Company," we see trucks full of frozen fruit coming in. Finally, Momco, a gigantic concern with labs, and trucks entering full of "partially hydrogenated lemon substitute."
The last panel shows a different old lady, selling pies out of her house to a long line of customers called "Aunt Sally's Apple Pies" next to the gigantic factory.
Probably the quality will be lower. I have two copies of the Lost episode "Dave." One is the iTunes version, one was gotten through... other means. The iTunes version is of notably inferior quality to the other version.
However, iTunes has an advantage, I didn't have to wait weeks for the download.
My guess? The film companies will only allow you to buy inferior versions of film downloads so you buy the DVD anyway. Currently, the only reason to buy downloads is if you must watch it right now, otherwise DVDs are the superior format. (Weaker DRM, better quality.)
Actually, a hostile takeover should only be possible if the Yamauchi family doesn't own a majority of the stock (and there are no disgruntled Yamauchi's around, obviously).
Of course, the article was speculating on a friendly takeover anyway. I guess the thought being that Hiroshi Yamauchi (who refused his retirement pension, a quite substantial sum, because he thought Nintendo could make better use of it) might like to take the money and run.
Actually, it seems to me that every video game I play nowadays has an annoying warning that it might trigger an epileptic seizure before it lets me actually play the game.
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More importantly, Nintendogs isn't an "ungame" is a fairly traditional type of game, a life sim which focuses on dogs instead of Tamagotchis or Sims. They even had one of these games for the Neo Geo pocket that never made it over here, Ganbare Neo Poke-kun.
Looks like the Sony shills are moderating today as well as making their pathetic comments. I hope somone will correct this by modding the parent of this post up!!
Remember Citadel!!!
I never entered the numbers, I never pushed the button.
Everytime you buy from Sony, God kills a kitten.
It's a cookbook!!!
Supposedly there's already TheNineBillionNamesofGod@Home project. See, I want more people to do this because I look forward to watching the stars go out, on by one...
Of course, Bush really only directs UK foriegn policy and some domestic policy. I'm sure he leaves the big decisions, such as whether to allow fox hunting or not, to the UK government.
Hey, Blair needs to think about his future, and a cushy job with the Carlyle Group is probably looking better and better.
In some places, things are actually run by the Mafia! I'm serious here, especially in the Northeast.
The last thing I want is Tony Soprano deciding whether or not taking my property and legally turning it over to his cronies is a "public good."
I really do...
What, you didn't get Gates of Zendocon? No Chip's Challenge? Slimeworld didn't send you?
Frankly, I couldn't understand (at the time... still can't) how people were happy with an original Gameboy. A monocolor screen, versus the Lynx (16-bit full color with hardware scaling and rotation (Mode 7 in Nintendo speak)).
As to your King's Quest comment, perhaps you'll find this amusing...
"Control a short-panted 'peasant' named Rather Dashing as he stumbles through Peasantry in his 'quest' to get revenge on a dragon thing."
The best example is Infocom's Sorceror. There are a few complicated Time Travel puzzles in that game, one occuring almost at the very start of the game. If you don't solve it, the game lets you blithely go on, and get very far, never realizing that if you don't have the item from the first time travel puzzle, you'll never, ever beat the game! It won't tell you, "You lose!" either, you'll just wander around until you give up.
You know, I think I'll have to buy this game now, because the story you relate here sounds so much like my real life that it is eerie.
It's based on a short story, called "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." I don't think anyone who read the story and saw the movie would see much of a connection between the two. (Hopefully, in the future, they'll stop putting "Total Recall was based on this," on the cover of PKD anthologies with the story in it.)
Besides which, remember the scene where Schwarzenegger's character pulls that guys arms off and then jokes that he'll see him at the party later? Classic cinema, and prescient of the man's approach to governing the state of California.
Sega/Mega/Super 32X/CD 32X has good information on that.
SEGA Base
Essentially, I get from this that a lack of co-operation between the American and Japanese branches were it's biggest problem. (Oh, and Nintendo screwing them over with the Congress didn't help either.)
The Dreamcast would have had to have been a spectacular success to pull SEGA out of its financial doldrums, and the people at SEGA seemed to know it was a longshot (see the following article):
"Come on, Mr. Yukawa, get up!"
The last panel shows a different old lady, selling pies out of her house to a long line of customers called "Aunt Sally's Apple Pies" next to the gigantic factory.
Think of all the 2D series destroyed (or nearly destroyed, only saved by GBA) by the drive to polygons.
However, iTunes has an advantage, I didn't have to wait weeks for the download.
My guess? The film companies will only allow you to buy inferior versions of film downloads so you buy the DVD anyway. Currently, the only reason to buy downloads is if you must watch it right now, otherwise DVDs are the superior format. (Weaker DRM, better quality.)
Two cheers for the lazy geek. (I am also lazy, hence only two cheers...)
Castlevania DS - Konami
Meteos - Q Entertainment
Sonic Rush - Sega
Trauma Center - Atlus
Phoenix Wright - Capcom
Of course, the article was speculating on a friendly takeover anyway. I guess the thought being that Hiroshi Yamauchi (who refused his retirement pension, a quite substantial sum, because he thought Nintendo could make better use of it) might like to take the money and run.
Actually, it seems to me that every video game I play nowadays has an annoying warning that it might trigger an epileptic seizure before it lets me actually play the game.
This is just one more step in turning our Universe into the Alex Kidd universe.
Ignorant comment, the Hayes code no longer exists.