You also forgot SNK vs Capcom 1, 2, EO and Chaos (Arcade/NGPC/DC/PSX/PS2/GC), SvC Cardfighters Clash 1 and 2 (NGPC), Street Fighter EX 1, 2, 3 and plus-alpha (Arcade/PSX - no, I didn't like them much either) and Capcom Fighting All Stars (canned). They're pretty much all mentioned in the character ranking poll on the site...
If you think Asuka is spelled "Osuka", I doubt you've seen enough anime to judge "every anime" as wacky 'n' weird.
(I don't know why I read anime threads here at all, to tell the truth. They just infuriate me with the obligatory posts about tentiporn and "I don't get it".;_;)
I call dupe from ages ago on this article. It was on the front page back then, too.
As for Kojima, I suspect they may have collaborated on Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand, which was mentioned in the E3 Konami roundup. Ooh, vampire-slaying.
Capcom gave up on 2D fighting games after Capcom vs. SNK 2, and Capcom Fighting All Stars will possibly be their last 3D fighter. Gah.
I'm looking forward to Viewtiful Joe and PN.03, but I'm not too optimistic as to their coming out in Australia... I'm still waiting for Animal Crossing!:x
I'm also pretty pumped about Unlimited Saga. Woah, they actually realized the only people that will buy this game ARE hardcore! Let's make the game accordingly! ROCK ON!!!
Well, all of the previous SaGa games have been like that too:) It's like buying Shin Megami Tensei games. W00t.
A friend said he bought the Norah Jones CD and went to make a copy at work, then realised halfway through the burning process that it was copy-protected. Not a peep from the burner, Windows or anything. The copy worked just fine, too...
Since the suit was filed April 14th, Mark E. Felstein has received threatening phone calls, corruption of his e-mail addresses and when his organization simply registered and parked its domain with a well-known register, it was wrongly blacklisted and immediately terminated by Anti-spammers.
(I really should be above this, but the fax number is listed on that page too. Have fun with the loop-of-black-pages trick!)
I find it sadder that the editor of the article doesn't know how to use an apostrophe or inverted commas. What did they do, dictate stuff to their word processor?
It seems more like the article is mourning the "death" of animation on free-to-air TV - are ratings really that important to them any more? Cable TV isn't so widespread in Australia (I know I don't need it - I watch Channel V at the gym and that's about it) so the cable and free-to-air channels double up on the very popular cartoons.
For the record, I quite enjoy Pokemon (both anime and game). It is a very deliberate marketing ploy, but as I now work in marketing I usually just sigh and give up if it's targeted at me.
It's coming out in Australia on the 6th of June. Since it strikes me as a cross between "Ganbare, Neopoke-Kun" and "Bishi-Bashi" on speed and without instructions, I can't wait to get my hands on it.
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I propose we send Russell Crowe to his house! Makin' movies, makin' songs and fightin' round the world!
My DC is one of five or six consoles currently sitting in front of my TV. I ended up getting it with the help of my mother after a couple of junkies broke into my house and took my Playstation and something like 80 games. (God bless drugs.)
For arcade fighting, especially 2D, no other console can beat the Dreamcast. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were two of the coolest games I've ever played, you can get discs of old ROMs (SNES and Megadrive) to play on a DC, and finding older games and/or ISOs is pretty easy now. Before I got a Gamecube, it was also great for four-player party games like Powerstone.
I can't pick any one favourite, myself, but I can name a few games that had really positive effects on me:
Mario 2 - Playing that for the first time was like switching from seeing the world in black and white to seeing it in colour. I'd seen those ridiculous fluoro colours and bold graphics on my BBC Micro when I was tinkering on it, but I'd never seen them on a NES. Having it on my GBA now is a wonderful thing.:)
Final Fantasy VII - My sister tended to hog the consoles until I bought her Playstation off her and got FFVII for Christmas. It was the first real console RPG I'd ever played and finished, and it got me hooked on the genre forever. My other favourite RPGs would be Xenogears and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.
Harvest Moon - I went through a lot of SNES ROMs when emulation got big on the web, in an attempt to make up for all the time my sister owned the SNES (see above). I don't know why it took me so long to get around to playing HM, but it changed my life. I've played its PSone and PS2 incarnations as well, and this stupid little farming RPG series will always have a special place in my heart.
Civilisation II and Alpha Centauri - Damn you, Sid Meier.
Well, Music and Music 2000 (by Codemasters) used to let you make movies to go with your music.... however, since it was on a Playstation and it's got barely any RAM, you'd find that you could create stuff to a certain point and then it would just crash. It was all kinda crappy ambient-techno-look effects video anyway...
I assume Sega asked to license her name/likeness/etc. before they started development. If anything, the creators of Barbarella or some group of now-pushing-eighty gogo dancers should be suing LMK.
From the article:
"The similarities and likenesses include the same or nearly the same distinctive make-up, large eyelashes, doe eyes, red/pink hair, pony tails, cute backpacks, mini-skirts, knee-socks, knee-high boots, and platform shoes"
Does that make you think retro, drag queen, Japanese kid in Harajuku or Deee-lite first...?
That's funny, because myself, being quite the geek, don't understand when my mother talks about the proper methods of filing a T4 or the odd things people do when it comes time for quarterly reports or when people rant and rave about missing lunch hour at month's end. When my brother in law talks about using six-penny nails when a brad nailer is more appropriate, or running the wrong kind of hydraulic fluid in a bailer, or...
That sounds more like employment vs. unemployment to me.:)
I think Apple turned production over to LG at some point, which is partly why the video logic boards tend to fail in later iMacs.
I don't own an iMac, but as others have pointed out its impact on industrial design at large has been very significant. I own one of the first G4s and a 2001 iBook, and they're both humming along quite happily. ^_^
True, but I think more buttons made for a good progression in the long run. While the switch to a new button config was freaky, there are great SNES games I just couldn't have played without eight buttons. Harvest Moon or Street Fighter II on two buttons? Don't think so!
That said, some of the newest-gen (GC, Xbox) peripherals are really ending up on the complex side... either they're giving today's gamers a lot more credit or the designers have a lot less common sense, I dunno.
Take a PlayStation 2 game. It'll run on any other PS2 (in that region, anyway) because they all have the same hardware config. The game will run on later revisions of the PS2 (the PSone was revised several times, you can tell from the version numbers and designs). A PC game can not possibly have been tested on every hardware config out there, so it's almost inevitable that bugs/glitches/weirdness will arise on someone's system.
As for controllers, PSone and PS2 controllers are interchangeable; PSone games and memcards work on a PS2. You can get affordable adaptors to use just about any console's controller with any other console's controller ports.
The uniformity you describe could make for one of two things: not much functionality in order to cater for all games, or too much functionality to the point of confusion. (I could be misinterpreting your post, but do you even play games or are you just bashing on consoles?)
I can't stand that mail either... I wasn't really paying attention when I got an address there (to protect my.mac address from spam, ha) but I bet it's covered in the user agreement when you sign up.
I think Mozilla did it pretty well. When you're setting the master security password (to add to or unlock your memorised passwords) it has a bar that fills up as you type. An insecure password shows an empty bar, a decently secure password shows a full one. You may pick a not-so-secure password (part of the bar is filled), but at least you know it's your fault when someone has a party with your bank accounts, etc.;)
Mobile phones are used way more in Australia than e-mail; while most people here look down on regular (or constant) net use as a nerdy thing, almost everyone with the means to do so owns a mobile phone. They're popular even with low-income earners and people on welfare. Like the author of the article, I noticed that when I was 15 my phone card was a permanent fixture, but now I don't carry one at all.
Some posters have said that this article refers to "a few Japanese yuppies", but three out of five people, or 80 million people, own a mobile phone. I don't call that "a few" by any stretch of the imagination! Their tech trends are very interesting to keep an eye on, as the majority of them will manifest themselves in the rest of the world to some extent. They're not always talking, they're writing e-mail to each other as well. I found that this article was pretty eye-opening with regards to mobile phone trends and usage in Japan.
I'm constantly noticing on cellphone threads that a bunch of posters complain with the subtext of "I don't use it, so the rest of you suck!" You do realise you probably sound like non-geek old fogey parents, right?;)
One of my friends is a hiphop artist and he uses a 4-track MD walkman to work on rough experimental tracks. (Sony isn't the only company that makes them either, if their DRM obsession turns you off.)
It's not what you would use for final CD-quality tracks, but it does suit experimentation and ought to hit your price point.
Having let an earlier Hotmail account expire because of all the spam I was getting and now owning a Hotmail address which is being spambombed too, I can say that Hotmail's abuse desk will gladly kill an account if the headers confirm that the spam truly came from Hotmail. However, legions of spammers use fake Hotmail addresses in their to or replyto fields, so the abuse desk can't do anything about it.
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While we're nitpicking... :D
You also forgot SNK vs Capcom 1, 2, EO and Chaos (Arcade/NGPC/DC/PSX/PS2/GC), SvC Cardfighters Clash 1 and 2 (NGPC), Street Fighter EX 1, 2, 3 and plus-alpha (Arcade/PSX - no, I didn't like them much either) and Capcom Fighting All Stars (canned). They're pretty much all mentioned in the character ranking poll on the site...
If you think Asuka is spelled "Osuka", I doubt you've seen enough anime to judge "every anime" as wacky 'n' weird.
;_;)
(I don't know why I read anime threads here at all, to tell the truth. They just infuriate me with the obligatory posts about tentiporn and "I don't get it".
I call dupe from ages ago on this article. It was on the front page back then, too.
As for Kojima, I suspect they may have collaborated on Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand, which was mentioned in the E3 Konami roundup. Ooh, vampire-slaying.
Capcom gave up on 2D fighting games after Capcom vs. SNK 2, and Capcom Fighting All Stars will possibly be their last 3D fighter. Gah.
:x
I'm looking forward to Viewtiful Joe and PN.03, but I'm not too optimistic as to their coming out in Australia... I'm still waiting for Animal Crossing!
I'm also pretty pumped about Unlimited Saga. Woah, they actually realized the only people that will buy this game ARE hardcore! Let's make the game accordingly! ROCK ON!!!
:) It's like buying Shin Megami Tensei games. W00t.
Well, all of the previous SaGa games have been like that too
A friend said he bought the Norah Jones CD and went to make a copy at work, then realised halfway through the burning process that it was copy-protected. Not a peep from the burner, Windows or anything. The copy worked just fine, too...
I'm surprised the emarketersamerica website hasn't been slashdotted yet. ^_^
From the page:
Since the suit was filed April 14th, Mark E. Felstein has received threatening phone calls, corruption of his e-mail addresses and when his organization simply registered and parked its domain with a well-known register, it was wrongly blacklisted and immediately terminated by Anti-spammers.
(I really should be above this, but the fax number is listed on that page too. Have fun with the loop-of-black-pages trick!)
I have one of those! It's called my laptop.
Har de har har.
Though from experience, it does come in handy to provide light during a blackout...
I find it sadder that the editor of the article doesn't know how to use an apostrophe or inverted commas. What did they do, dictate stuff to their word processor?
It seems more like the article is mourning the "death" of animation on free-to-air TV - are ratings really that important to them any more? Cable TV isn't so widespread in Australia (I know I don't need it - I watch Channel V at the gym and that's about it) so the cable and free-to-air channels double up on the very popular cartoons.
For the record, I quite enjoy Pokemon (both anime and game). It is a very deliberate marketing ploy, but as I now work in marketing I usually just sigh and give up if it's targeted at me.
It's coming out in Australia on the 6th of June. Since it strikes me as a cross between "Ganbare, Neopoke-Kun" and "Bishi-Bashi" on speed and without instructions, I can't wait to get my hands on it.
I propose we send Russell Crowe to his house! Makin' movies, makin' songs and fightin' round the world!
My DC is one of five or six consoles currently sitting in front of my TV. I ended up getting it with the help of my mother after a couple of junkies broke into my house and took my Playstation and something like 80 games. (God bless drugs.)
For arcade fighting, especially 2D, no other console can beat the Dreamcast. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 were two of the coolest games I've ever played, you can get discs of old ROMs (SNES and Megadrive) to play on a DC, and finding older games and/or ISOs is pretty easy now. Before I got a Gamecube, it was also great for four-player party games like Powerstone.
I can't pick any one favourite, myself, but I can name a few games that had really positive effects on me:
:)
Mario 2 - Playing that for the first time was like switching from seeing the world in black and white to seeing it in colour. I'd seen those ridiculous fluoro colours and bold graphics on my BBC Micro when I was tinkering on it, but I'd never seen them on a NES. Having it on my GBA now is a wonderful thing.
Final Fantasy VII - My sister tended to hog the consoles until I bought her Playstation off her and got FFVII for Christmas. It was the first real console RPG I'd ever played and finished, and it got me hooked on the genre forever. My other favourite RPGs would be Xenogears and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.
Harvest Moon - I went through a lot of SNES ROMs when emulation got big on the web, in an attempt to make up for all the time my sister owned the SNES (see above). I don't know why it took me so long to get around to playing HM, but it changed my life. I've played its PSone and PS2 incarnations as well, and this stupid little farming RPG series will always have a special place in my heart.
Civilisation II and Alpha Centauri - Damn you, Sid Meier.
Well, Music and Music 2000 (by Codemasters) used to let you make movies to go with your music.... however, since it was on a Playstation and it's got barely any RAM, you'd find that you could create stuff to a certain point and then it would just crash. It was all kinda crappy ambient-techno-look effects video anyway...
I assume Sega asked to license her name/likeness/etc. before they started development. If anything, the creators of Barbarella or some group of now-pushing-eighty gogo dancers should be suing LMK.
From the article:
"The similarities and likenesses include the same or nearly the same distinctive make-up, large eyelashes, doe eyes, red/pink hair, pony tails, cute backpacks, mini-skirts, knee-socks, knee-high boots, and platform shoes"
Does that make you think retro, drag queen, Japanese kid in Harajuku or Deee-lite first...?
That's funny, because myself, being quite the geek, don't understand when my mother talks about the proper methods of filing a T4 or the odd things people do when it comes time for quarterly reports or when people rant and rave about missing lunch hour at month's end. When my brother in law talks about using six-penny nails when a brad nailer is more appropriate, or running the wrong kind of hydraulic fluid in a bailer, or ...
:)
That sounds more like employment vs. unemployment to me.
I think Apple turned production over to LG at some point, which is partly why the video logic boards tend to fail in later iMacs.
I don't own an iMac, but as others have pointed out its impact on industrial design at large has been very significant. I own one of the first G4s and a 2001 iBook, and they're both humming along quite happily. ^_^
True, but I think more buttons made for a good progression in the long run. While the switch to a new button config was freaky, there are great SNES games I just couldn't have played without eight buttons. Harvest Moon or Street Fighter II on two buttons? Don't think so!
That said, some of the newest-gen (GC, Xbox) peripherals are really ending up on the complex side... either they're giving today's gamers a lot more credit or the designers have a lot less common sense, I dunno.
I think you got a bit carried away there. ;)
Take a PlayStation 2 game. It'll run on any other PS2 (in that region, anyway) because they all have the same hardware config. The game will run on later revisions of the PS2 (the PSone was revised several times, you can tell from the version numbers and designs). A PC game can not possibly have been tested on every hardware config out there, so it's almost inevitable that bugs/glitches/weirdness will arise on someone's system.
As for controllers, PSone and PS2 controllers are interchangeable; PSone games and memcards work on a PS2. You can get affordable adaptors to use just about any console's controller with any other console's controller ports.
The uniformity you describe could make for one of two things: not much functionality in order to cater for all games, or too much functionality to the point of confusion. (I could be misinterpreting your post, but do you even play games or are you just bashing on consoles?)
I can't stand that mail either... I wasn't really paying attention when I got an address there (to protect my .mac address from spam, ha) but I bet it's covered in the user agreement when you sign up.
All I could think was Pacman. Ooooh, little pills and repetitive music.
I think Mozilla did it pretty well. When you're setting the master security password (to add to or unlock your memorised passwords) it has a bar that fills up as you type. An insecure password shows an empty bar, a decently secure password shows a full one. You may pick a not-so-secure password (part of the bar is filled), but at least you know it's your fault when someone has a party with your bank accounts, etc. ;)
Mobile phones are used way more in Australia than e-mail; while most people here look down on regular (or constant) net use as a nerdy thing, almost everyone with the means to do so owns a mobile phone. They're popular even with low-income earners and people on welfare. Like the author of the article, I noticed that when I was 15 my phone card was a permanent fixture, but now I don't carry one at all.
;)
Some posters have said that this article refers to "a few Japanese yuppies", but three out of five people, or 80 million people, own a mobile phone. I don't call that "a few" by any stretch of the imagination! Their tech trends are very interesting to keep an eye on, as the majority of them will manifest themselves in the rest of the world to some extent. They're not always talking, they're writing e-mail to each other as well. I found that this article was pretty eye-opening with regards to mobile phone trends and usage in Japan.
I'm constantly noticing on cellphone threads that a bunch of posters complain with the subtext of "I don't use it, so the rest of you suck!" You do realise you probably sound like non-geek old fogey parents, right?
One of my friends is a hiphop artist and he uses a 4-track MD walkman to work on rough experimental tracks. (Sony isn't the only company that makes them either, if their DRM obsession turns you off.)
It's not what you would use for final CD-quality tracks, but it does suit experimentation and ought to hit your price point.
Having let an earlier Hotmail account expire because of all the spam I was getting and now owning a Hotmail address which is being spambombed too, I can say that Hotmail's abuse desk will gladly kill an account if the headers confirm that the spam truly came from Hotmail. However, legions of spammers use fake Hotmail addresses in their to or replyto fields, so the abuse desk can't do anything about it.