If you had read the paragraph, how exactly did you come up with that question? It was a print comic first, then became a web exclusive comic. I think that was pretty clear. And if you bothered to read the linked to history, it even changed names between print and web iterations.
The very first regularly published web comic based on video gaming is the original incarnation of The Polymer-City Chronicles which ran through Game Zero magazine and can be read in the Game Zero comics archive. The strip dates from the week of March 13th, 1995. Prior to that the strip was running in the GZ print magazine. The current PCC site features the story arc since January 2000. For more chronology about PCC, you can read this post in his forum.
While there were some one-off comics that floated around the usenet that had video gaming punchlines, PCC was the first on the web dedicated to that theme.
That's the real question. What if you're car breaks down three times, say, 20 miles from your house and AAA comes and tows it to the shop for you. Are you going to be taxed for that 60 miles? If you use a flat-bed tow truck and the tow driver has already payed tax on that travel, is this a double tax? Oh I see a huge lawsuit brewing on this one.
While that may be true for most X-Box gamers, most middle/high school kids don't live in a dark closet.
My kids for instance, are very social with their gaming. My children and their friends have set up group gaming battles in Pokemon Stadium where everyone brings over their carts and plays against each others characters. They arrange trades, etc...
One of my children bugged me constantly to try and convince me to let him take his Animal Crossing memory card to school so that he can take turns trading towns with a friend so they can visit each other's towns to trade fruit, etc... So on, and so forth...
I for one am very excited about the added social dynamics to be introduced here. Any thing that get's kids out and engaged with their peers has a lot of positive potential.
From my read on this, the "level" would be something broadcast from the bios, so as to protect users from trying to run incompatible software on their system and complaining when it doesn't work. Just watch. This means there will be games that refuse to run on your "Level unidentified" system.
They probably hired the same focus group that told NEC to make make the PCEngine/CD system larger in the US, hence the monstrosly sized TG-16 with CD base. Remember, "bigger is better" cause it's all about the size of your p3n1s:b
I searched on the name of my web site as well as those of my friends businesses and not a single one of them came up with results. Here were my findings:
Game Zero Magazine -- Google=701,000 / MS=0 Ten Foot Pole Software -- Google=97,200 / MS=0 Polymer City Chronicles -- Google=2,790 / MS=0 NOP Design -- Google=112,000 / MS=15
Pretty much crap if you ask me, even AltaVista, Webcrawler, and Vivisimo turned up more results that the MS search.
Or something akin to that? Granted I only gave the article a quick read through, but it looks like the only real difference is overall base bus speed. 20 year old IBM technology strikes again.
They list every stupid iteration of Cobal, SmallTalk and every other Berkinstock loving language, but under Basic we have "Basic", "MS Basic" and "Visual Basic"!?! WTFIUWT, how about Interger Basic, Applesoft Basic, GW Basic, Real Basic, Basic under VMS, etc...? I was coding in a Basic language in 1980-82 at the least on an Apple//+! Just to pick on the Basic line for starts.
This looks more like a mostly Mainframe/X86 centric chart. I call b*llsh*t. This is almost as lame as the new season of Last Comic^H^H^H^H^HReality Contestant Standing.
First you start trading warez on-line, then the next thing you know you're hooking up with other FPS gamers to play your pirated booty at pirate frag parties where you drink alcahol and the next thing you know you're smoking pot and taking halucangenics and turning on tracer effects in the games... So now your trading stolen software, trading in illegal drugs... then your girlfriend dumps you (if you even had one) and the only date you can get is the prostitute down the street that takes pirated windows software as payment...
It's a slippery slope...
Seriously though, the only way to stop software piracy is drop the price to $19.99 for everything.
Both Paper Mario on the N64 and Mario and Luigi for the GBA have some great moments where a character interacts with the player... for instance there is a scene in one where a character flys into the camera and cracks the lense. Pretty funny. I know there are others, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.
Look I was all impressed with Microsoft's XP Tablet Edition when it came out recently until I one day came across the IBM ThinkPad 360P, 360PE and 750P laptops.
Holy shit these were 486SX and 468DX touchscreen systems where the screen flipped over on top of the keyboard making the laptop a thick tablet computer.
Running OS/2 Warp 4 with full pen functionality enabled, these systems are absolutely amazing. I never use the keyboard, even from a DOS window as the handwriting recognition is pretty darn good all across the OS (even with Win-OS/2 aps, etc...)....the systems even seem to have support for pressure sensitivity but apparently that was never added into the full driver support because sometime around when Microsoft "decided" that pen computing was dead, everyone inlcluding IBM quit developing the format. It just makes me see red to think that this technology had to sit and stagnate for 10 years until Microsoft got off their ass and decided that *THEY* should be working on it again... and they shut down everyone else in the meantime. Man, I am so sick of this crap.
that IBM got the basic architecture of WorkBench for use in developing the Presentation Manager for OS/2 for their end of the trade in porting Rexx:)...I sometimes wonder if the slow demise of OS/2 is somehow tied in with the Amiga curse:/
It isn't like the stores are getting games in good condition and delibrately beating them up; they get the game in the condition it is traded in, and if people aren't willing to buy it in that condition it isn't like they are being forced to.
I beg to differ. A little over a year ago I was on really hard times and I decided to trade all my duplicate GameBoy games with manuals and boxes down at the local GameStop in order to get some new games as presents for my kids. Imagine my horror as the guy behind the counter systematically pulled the games out of their boxes and threw the boxes in the trash and the manuals into a small shoe box where they keep manuals for people who are looking for them. (...and I've since discovered that most stores doen't even do this.)
If I could have afforded to, I would have taken everything back and tried to come up with money for my kids gaming presents some other way. As it is, it will be a cold day in hell before I sell anything else to one of these stores.
this is some guy sat down and did up a list of all the popular games he could think of... There are so many games not included under many of these voting catagores that it's not even funny. Like with the "Adventure classics" listing, why wasn't Scorceror included? What about any of the popular Scott Adam's games, or Eamon Quest series... and let's not forget other graphic adventure variants from the exact same time that would go under this catagory such as any of the classic Penguin ("Transilvania", to name one) or Sierra titles.
But absolutely NONE of the post episode 6 books are canon. In fact as we've seen 4-6 are apparently no longer canon either. No, if we see 7, 8, & 9. Then there will need to be a re-edit/issue of 1-6 to correct for all of the new continuity issues added to the story.
I'm still pissed over the Stat Wars newspaper strip that ran around 1978/79 which was called cannon at the time and apparently one of the only works given Lucas' story blessing. This strip documented the clone wars and the adventures of C3PO and R2-D2 with Obi-Wan pre-episode 6. All of that story was trashed... why?
But it is not a guideline, it's a marketing tool. And I don't know what country you've been living in but most people in the U.S. use the TV and video games as a discount babysitter service here. It's a rare case where a parent will watch more than a moment of what their kid is playing and even rarer yet when they actually sit down and share the experience with them.
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If you had read the paragraph, how exactly did you come up with that question? It was a print comic first, then became a web exclusive comic. I think that was pretty clear. And if you bothered to read the linked to history, it even changed names between print and web iterations.
The very first regularly published web comic based on video gaming is the original incarnation of The Polymer-City Chronicles which ran through Game Zero magazine and can be read in the Game Zero comics archive. The strip dates from the week of March 13th, 1995. Prior to that the strip was running in the GZ print magazine. The current PCC site features the story arc since January 2000. For more chronology about PCC, you can read this post in his forum.
While there were some one-off comics that floated around the usenet that had video gaming punchlines, PCC was the first on the web dedicated to that theme.
That's the real question. What if you're car
breaks down three times, say, 20 miles from your house and AAA comes and tows it to the shop for you. Are you going to be taxed for that 60 miles? If you use a flat-bed tow truck and the tow driver has already payed tax on that travel, is this a double tax? Oh I see a huge lawsuit brewing on this one.
While that may be true for most X-Box gamers, most middle/high school kids don't live in a dark closet.
My kids for instance, are very social with their gaming. My children and their friends have set up group gaming battles in Pokemon Stadium where everyone brings over their carts and plays against each others characters. They arrange trades, etc...
One of my children bugged me constantly to try and convince me to let him take his Animal Crossing memory card to school so that he can take turns trading towns with a friend so they can visit each other's towns to trade fruit, etc... So on, and so forth...
I for one am very excited about the added social dynamics to be introduced here. Any thing that get's kids out and engaged with their peers has a lot of positive potential.
From my read on this, the "level" would be something broadcast from the bios, so as to protect users from trying to run incompatible software on their system and complaining when it doesn't work. Just watch. This means there will be games that refuse to run on your "Level unidentified" system.
Same as it's always been. If you have the money you can live however you want. Otherwise you're just a serf.
They probably hired the same focus group that told NEC to make make the PCEngine/CD system larger in the US, hence the monstrosly sized TG-16 with CD base. Remember, "bigger is better" cause it's all about the size of your p3n1s :b
From what I've read the idea is that games are being designed so that you can use your finger for the touch screen.
Stop him quick... ...but seriously, it works. Just look at Infocom.
God forbid someone actually give the customer some value for what their buying.
Ah... Touche.
;p
Although my point was testing something other than Linux.
I searched on the name of my web site as well as those of my friends businesses and not a single one of them came up with results. Here were my findings:
Game Zero Magazine -- Google=701,000 / MS=0
Ten Foot Pole Software -- Google=97,200 / MS=0
Polymer City Chronicles -- Google=2,790 / MS=0
NOP Design -- Google=112,000 / MS=15
Pretty much crap if you ask me, even AltaVista, Webcrawler, and Vivisimo turned up more results that the MS search.
Or something akin to that? Granted I only gave the article a quick read through, but it looks like the only real difference is overall base bus speed. 20 year old IBM technology strikes again.
is if there is no constant flow of software to back it up. If the games keep coming, then there is no issue.
They list every stupid iteration of Cobal, SmallTalk and every other Berkinstock loving language, but under Basic we have "Basic", "MS Basic" and "Visual Basic"!?! WTFIUWT, how about Interger Basic, Applesoft Basic, GW Basic, Real Basic, Basic under VMS, etc...? I was coding in a Basic language in 1980-82 at the least on an Apple //+! Just to pick on the Basic line for starts.
This looks more like a mostly Mainframe/X86 centric chart. I call b*llsh*t. This is almost as lame as the new season of Last Comic^H^H^H^H^HReality Contestant Standing.
First you start trading warez on-line, then the next thing you know you're hooking up with other FPS gamers to play your pirated booty at pirate frag parties where you drink alcahol and the next thing you know you're smoking pot and taking halucangenics and turning on tracer effects in the games... So now your trading stolen software, trading in illegal drugs... then your girlfriend dumps you (if you even had one) and the only date you can get is the prostitute down the street that takes pirated windows software as payment...
It's a slippery slope...
Seriously though, the only way to stop software piracy is drop the price to $19.99 for everything.
Both Paper Mario on the N64 and Mario and Luigi for the GBA have some great moments where a character interacts with the player... for instance there is a scene in one where a character flys into the camera and cracks the lense. Pretty funny. I know there are others, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.
Look I was all impressed with Microsoft's XP Tablet Edition when it came out recently until I one day came across the IBM ThinkPad 360P, 360PE and 750P laptops.
...the systems even seem to have support for pressure sensitivity but apparently that was never added into the full driver support because sometime around when Microsoft "decided" that pen computing was dead, everyone inlcluding IBM quit developing the format. It just makes me see red to think that this technology had to sit and stagnate for 10 years until Microsoft got off their ass and decided that *THEY* should be working on it again... and they shut down everyone else in the meantime. Man, I am so sick of this crap.
Holy shit these were 486SX and 468DX touchscreen systems where the screen flipped over on top of the keyboard making the laptop a thick tablet computer.
Running OS/2 Warp 4 with full pen functionality enabled, these systems are absolutely amazing. I never use the keyboard, even from a DOS window as the handwriting recognition is pretty darn good all across the OS (even with Win-OS/2 aps, etc...).
I guess I'm going to PC hell after all for that flub.
that IBM got the basic architecture of WorkBench for use in developing the Presentation Manager for OS/2 for their end of the trade in porting Rexx :) ...I sometimes wonder if the slow demise of OS/2 is somehow tied in with the Amiga curse :/
:(
Boy I sure do miss alt.amiga.religion
cough...
It isn't like the stores are getting games in good condition and delibrately beating them up; they get the game in the condition it is traded in, and if people aren't willing to buy it in that condition it isn't like they are being forced to.
I beg to differ. A little over a year ago I was on really hard times and I decided to trade all my duplicate GameBoy games with manuals and boxes down at the local GameStop in order to get some new games as presents for my kids. Imagine my horror as the guy behind the counter systematically pulled the games out of their boxes and threw the boxes in the trash and the manuals into a small shoe box where they keep manuals for people who are looking for them. (...and I've since discovered that most stores doen't even do this.)
If I could have afforded to, I would have taken everything back and tried to come up with money for my kids gaming presents some other way. As it is, it will be a cold day in hell before I sell anything else to one of these stores.
this is some guy sat down and did up a list of all the popular games he could think of... There are so many games not included under many of these voting catagores that it's not even funny. Like with the "Adventure classics" listing, why wasn't Scorceror included? What about any of the popular Scott Adam's games, or Eamon Quest series... and let's not forget other graphic adventure variants from the exact same time that would go under this catagory such as any of the classic Penguin ("Transilvania", to name one) or Sierra titles.
Oh well...
eh?...
...who knows.
what about in three years?
five?
ten?
Hmm... but my guess right now is it will be the same number as there are now.
None.
Who is Nintendo's market?
kids...
twenty years ago?
kids...
are people still having kids?
Say doh.
But absolutely NONE of the post episode 6 books are canon. In fact as we've seen 4-6 are apparently no longer canon either. No, if we see 7, 8, & 9. Then there will need to be a re-edit/issue of 1-6 to correct for all of the new continuity issues added to the story.
I'm still pissed over the Stat Wars newspaper strip that ran around 1978/79 which was called cannon at the time and apparently one of the only works given Lucas' story blessing. This strip documented the clone wars and the adventures of C3PO and R2-D2 with Obi-Wan pre-episode 6. All of that story was trashed... why?
But it is not a guideline, it's a marketing tool. And I don't know what country you've been living in but most people in the U.S. use the TV and video games as a discount babysitter service here. It's a rare case where a parent will watch more than a moment of what their kid is playing and even rarer yet when they actually sit down and share the experience with them.