There are actually a number of games I can think of that can be played one-handed. Let's see, House of the Dead comes to mind, with it's gun controller. And while I'm still waiting for it to arrive, I believe from the pictures that Kenshin Dragon Quest with it's sword controller is also something that only requires one hand.
I also think most traditional RPGs and Strategy games don't really require more than one hand.
A relevant quote from an article about Rupert Murdoch:
In legend Murdoch has an infallible popular touch, displayed in escalating circulations. But the legend misleads somewhat: Murdoch is not commercially invincible in areas where governments can't help. The plinth of his British empire, the rigorously prurient News of the World, was selling more than six million copies when he bought it: since, half its sales have vanished, while other papers have gained. The New York Post consistently loses money, and most companies would close it. -- "I Am Thy Father's Ghost":
A Journey into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
It is Kent Brockmanesque. To quote Kent, "Ladies and Gentleman, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together." -- Kamp Krusty
I bought a Likko DVD player from Lik Sang. It was around $200.00, but it will play anything. Normally, I try to buy only region free DVDs anyway, but it came in handy when I mistakenly bought one that wasn't.
So, the other day I decided to order the rerelease of the old Shaw Brothers' movie, The Magic Blade. I ordered it off of the Internet (http://Sensasian.com, I think) and put it in my Likko player. It was great, I was happy I purchased it. So, the next day or so, I took it over to my parents' house, where my brother lives, so he could see it too. Well, I tried it in several DVD players, and none would play it. My parents' house is bursting with conventional DVD players. One of them helpfully explained that it was the "wrong region." Normally, I check DVDs to make sure they are region free before I buy them, but I forgot in this case.
Bleh, hooray for the pirates and those who help them! o/~You can't take the sky from me o/~
The reason why this is frustrating is because: Who is going to be buying KOF for PS2? Is it going to be the average kid, or the hardcore fan? (If you said "hardcore fan," you win the solid gold cupi doll.)
The hardcore fan is the one who will be most disturbed by stupid, pointless, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy style censorship, but for some reason he's the one who usually has to put up with it. I don't remember whether Tecmo had brought out Ninja Gaiden Trilogy for the SNES (terrible port, don't buy it, they also took the lightening out of the lightening level making it into a cakewalk) before or after Mortal Kombat II. What I do know is that content that was considered perfectly acceptible when the games were major releases on the NES, became necessary to censor for what was essentially a nostalgia release on the SNES.
Well, it is the same with this. You can go out and buy GTA:Vice City for your PS2, but forget about an uncensored KOF.
Still, it could be worse, like what happened with all the Samurai Spririts games besides part III on the PS1 (i.e. they were never released in the US.)
I suggest if you are a fan you find a way to import it.
Don't forget the longstanding bitter grudge between EA and Sega. It's not like EA are saints in this regard, look at what they did with Call of Duty...
There already is a legal precedent for this in the video game industry, I refer you to the case of K. C. Munchkin a Pacman type game that came out for the Magnavox Odyssey.
From this, I'd say that Sega may have a case, provided they really can demonstrate that there is no prior art.
However, I'm hoping they don't get the game removed from shelves. That's what happened with K. C. Munchkin fortunately after I had already purchased it.
Ah, the Sega Channel. It was the way I got gipped out of MegaMan: The Wily Wars, something I'm still mad about. I remember how Sega had made a big deal about Capcom coming on board with the Genesis with a picture of MegaMan and Sonic shaking hands. However, they neglected to mention that only the three people who actually subscribed to the Sega Channel would ever be allowed to play MegaMan on their Genesis Systems (in the US).
Well, with the exception of the word "Cthulhu" there is nothing to indicate that he is talking about Call of Cthulhu. I mean, Call of Cthulhu doesn't have levels the way Dungeons and Dragons has, and the name Nekrull is a little off for a Call of Cthulhu character. While it is not outside the realm of possibility that you could have a character in Call of Cthulhu with the title of lord and the profession of assassin, I find the demigod part to be especially suspect. In fact the whole character sounds like the work of a particularly obnoxious AD&D powergamer.
When I was a kid, those types of AD&D gamers wouldn't play "Call of Cthulhu" and would make fund of the name, Cthulhu. Yes, that's right, as a young "Call of Cthuhlu" fan, I was considered a nerd among nerds.
Of course, they didn't actually play D&D either, they would just spend the group meetings arguing with each other in the library basement where our group met, or bragging about their 50th level anti-paladin sons of Orcus characters with super artifact swords.
I tell you, trying to play a 6th level Lawful Good Magic-User was no fun in such a situation.
I'm surprised, looking at their list this year (comic book superheroes and, apparently, anything with the word ninja in it) that they just don't propose infant castration as the solution to all their issues.
Of course, then they wouldn't get their name in the paper every Christmas, so probably it wouldn't be their ideal solution after all.
I wonder if they might ask him politely to stop, you know, boiling people alive. I mean since Hussein's atrocities are now the only rationale for invading Iraq, you would think the administration would think twice about cozying up to brutal dictators. (But, then, no one was ever really bothered by that picture of Rumsfeld and Hussein shaking hands when Hussein was a CIA asset, either. To quote Chou En Lai, "One of the delightful things about
Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory." )
It's a PalmOS device that's been optimized for playing games. Since it is a Palm device, you can play Palm games on it, and they are also coming out with Zodiac optimized games. Oh, and it has all those PDA features he could want, too.
Oh no it isn't. It isn't complex and nuanced at all. Wertham's work was horrible quackery that came along at the right time. Your assertion that "demonizing things is bad" is more or less the same as saying, "You know, Hitler's ideas about eugenics might not have been all bad. Let's all think about them before coming to snap judgements."
Besides, "poor" Frederick Wertham was one of American history's most successful demagogues. This is like feeling sorry for the current "demonization" of the appalling J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover was an awful person and after he died people felt free to say so, but while he was alive he was maybe the most powerful man in Washington and no one could touch him.
Wertham decimated an industry and provided political cover for Congress when it wanted to make political hay out of a convenient moral panic. I hope he's burning in a particularly interesting part of Hell.
Wiggum: Now, what I am about to show you next may shock and educate you. Hold onto your values as we step through the looking glass into a hippie pot party.
[flicks a switch, lighting a mannequin with a joint crudely stuck to his mouth]
While Johnny Welfare plays acid rock on a stolen guitar, his old lady has a better idea.
[lights up another mannequin, of a woman opening wide to eat a baby sandwich. (That's a sandwich with a baby in it, not a really tiny sandwich.) The crowd gasps]
Why would Nintendo want to sell their consoles at a loss in order to compete with Sony and Microsoft as Entertainment Hub companies when, as they pointed out, they won't make money if the people play DVDs? Sony does make money when people by DVDs, they are (in addition to their many other businesses) a DVD company. We are not talking about Nintendo adding a DVD player and being able to sell their consoles for cost-plus-profit here, because I don't think that would be a viable business strategy. Nintendo has to be price competitive with Sony at the very least, and probably Microsoft too in the United States market. I think here the problem is understanding the three different approaches to Video Game strategy by the three companies:
Sony, the Digital Hub: It's a Sony world and we all just live here, at least that's the dream in the boardrooms of Sony, Inc. Sony wants to make every consumer electronics device you use, from proprietary CD players to proprietary game systems and proprietary DVD players, something that bears the Sony logo. The Playstation has always just been one small but important part of this road to dominance. I want to note that this is not the reality now, just Sony's dream for a new order.
Microsoft, Dangerous Paranoids: Supposing Sony suceeds. Well, in that world people will do all their computer stuff on some version of a Playstation or VAIO, and Sony can theoretically publish their own software and lock Microsoft out of the market. The people at Microsoft fear competition in the world of computer software, and they see this as a real threat. The solution? Compete with Sony in the digital hub business. Make no mistake, this is the real war that is going on. Microsoft wants to continue its dominance of the software industry, and it can't let Sony pull the rug out from under them by achieving absolute dominance of the hardware their software runs on.
Nintendo, Ex-VideoGame Monopolists: Nintendo never liked competition, but they do not like the new direction the video game industry is headed. They were perfectly happy having absolute dominance of the video game industry, but right now that is just a distant dream. What they don't want to happen is to be sucked into playing Sony's game by Sony's rules. To achieve that, they have to keep the war about video games and not about digital hubs. Part of that is their gamble, which is winning the video game war on the basis of superior games, not being jack-of-all-trades. So far, they aren't suceeding, mainly because their competition still creates good, solid video gaming experiences despite the fact that it is only part of a larger strategy.
This is starting to remind me of an old Batman comic/Animated Series Episode, "The Laughing Fish."
JOKER: As I was saying, since every fish in Gotham now bears my famous, and frankly, fabulous face, I should be getting a profit from every fish product sold. Let's say a nickel per fish sandwich? Fifty cents for sardines! Millions of dollars a day to finance my happy hedonistic lifestyle! So which of your tedious copyright forms do I fill out first? You may speak now.
FRANCIS: No one can copyright fish. They're natural resource!
JOKER: But they share my unique face! Colonel What's-His-Name has chickens, and they don't even have mustaches!
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I also think most traditional RPGs and Strategy games don't really require more than one hand.
In legend Murdoch has an infallible popular touch, displayed in escalating circulations. But the legend misleads somewhat: Murdoch is not commercially invincible in areas where governments can't help. The plinth of his British empire, the rigorously prurient News of the World, was selling more than six million copies when he bought it: since, half its sales have vanished, while other papers have gained. The New York Post consistently loses money, and most companies would close it. -- "I Am Thy Father's Ghost": A Journey into Rupert Murdoch's Soul
It is Kent Brockmanesque. To quote Kent, "Ladies and Gentleman, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together." -- Kamp Krusty
I thought Orange Alert meant the government was going to send rover out to catch someone
Well, you'll have to expect this sort of thing now that the One Ring has been destroyed.
I bought a Likko DVD player from Lik Sang. It was around $200.00, but it will play anything. Normally, I try to buy only region free DVDs anyway, but it came in handy when I mistakenly bought one that wasn't.
Funny story, true story...
So, the other day I decided to order the rerelease of the old Shaw Brothers' movie, The Magic Blade. I ordered it off of the Internet (http://Sensasian.com, I think) and put it in my Likko player. It was great, I was happy I purchased it. So, the next day or so, I took it over to my parents' house, where my brother lives, so he could see it too. Well, I tried it in several DVD players, and none would play it. My parents' house is bursting with conventional DVD players. One of them helpfully explained that it was the "wrong region." Normally, I check DVDs to make sure they are region free before I buy them, but I forgot in this case.
Bleh, hooray for the pirates and those who help them! o/~You can't take the sky from me o/~
The hardcore fan is the one who will be most disturbed by stupid, pointless, Ninja Gaiden Trilogy style censorship, but for some reason he's the one who usually has to put up with it. I don't remember whether Tecmo had brought out Ninja Gaiden Trilogy for the SNES (terrible port, don't buy it, they also took the lightening out of the lightening level making it into a cakewalk) before or after Mortal Kombat II. What I do know is that content that was considered perfectly acceptible when the games were major releases on the NES, became necessary to censor for what was essentially a nostalgia release on the SNES.
Well, it is the same with this. You can go out and buy GTA:Vice City for your PS2, but forget about an uncensored KOF.
Still, it could be worse, like what happened with all the Samurai Spririts games besides part III on the PS1 (i.e. they were never released in the US.)
I suggest if you are a fan you find a way to import it.
Don't forget the longstanding bitter grudge between EA and Sega. It's not like EA are saints in this regard, look at what they did with Call of Duty...
Scroll down this page for details:
Odyssey II page
From this, I'd say that Sega may have a case, provided they really can demonstrate that there is no prior art.
However, I'm hoping they don't get the game removed from shelves. That's what happened with K. C. Munchkin fortunately after I had already purchased it.
No, I'm not bitter... More Information Here
When I was a kid, those types of AD&D gamers wouldn't play "Call of Cthulhu" and would make fund of the name, Cthulhu. Yes, that's right, as a young "Call of Cthuhlu" fan, I was considered a nerd among nerds.
Of course, they didn't actually play D&D either, they would just spend the group meetings arguing with each other in the library basement where our group met, or bragging about their 50th level anti-paladin sons of Orcus characters with super artifact swords.
I tell you, trying to play a 6th level Lawful Good Magic-User was no fun in such a situation.
Of course, then they wouldn't get their name in the paper every Christmas, so probably it wouldn't be their ideal solution after all.
It's sick...
Sick, sick and wrong....
Evil even...
Anyone tries to do this to me will get a face full of boot!
Don't forget about Islam Karimov:
Here are some pictures of Bush and Powell shaking hands with their good buddy, Islam Karimov.
I wonder if they might ask him politely to stop, you know, boiling people alive. I mean since Hussein's atrocities are now the only rationale for invading Iraq, you would think the administration would think twice about cozying up to brutal dictators. (But, then, no one was ever really bothered by that picture of Rumsfeld and Hussein shaking hands when Hussein was a CIA asset, either. To quote Chou En Lai, "One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory." )
zodiac
It's a PalmOS device that's been optimized for playing games. Since it is a Palm device, you can play Palm games on it, and they are also coming out with Zodiac optimized games. Oh, and it has all those PDA features he could want, too.
You could also get him a Samsung Yopy:
Yopy
Besides, "poor" Frederick Wertham was one of American history's most successful demagogues. This is like feeling sorry for the current "demonization" of the appalling J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover was an awful person and after he died people felt free to say so, but while he was alive he was maybe the most powerful man in Washington and no one could touch him.
Wertham decimated an industry and provided political cover for Congress when it wanted to make political hay out of a convenient moral panic. I hope he's burning in a particularly interesting part of Hell.
Why they changed it, I can't say, people just liked it better that way....
DOAX BIKINIS ARE HERE! (May not be work safe for conservative workplaces)
Mostly for laughs...
Sony, the Digital Hub: It's a Sony world and we all just live here, at least that's the dream in the boardrooms of Sony, Inc. Sony wants to make every consumer electronics device you use, from proprietary CD players to proprietary game systems and proprietary DVD players, something that bears the Sony logo. The Playstation has always just been one small but important part of this road to dominance. I want to note that this is not the reality now, just Sony's dream for a new order.
Microsoft, Dangerous Paranoids: Supposing Sony suceeds. Well, in that world people will do all their computer stuff on some version of a Playstation or VAIO, and Sony can theoretically publish their own software and lock Microsoft out of the market. The people at Microsoft fear competition in the world of computer software, and they see this as a real threat. The solution? Compete with Sony in the digital hub business. Make no mistake, this is the real war that is going on. Microsoft wants to continue its dominance of the software industry, and it can't let Sony pull the rug out from under them by achieving absolute dominance of the hardware their software runs on.
Nintendo, Ex-VideoGame Monopolists: Nintendo never liked competition, but they do not like the new direction the video game industry is headed. They were perfectly happy having absolute dominance of the video game industry, but right now that is just a distant dream. What they don't want to happen is to be sucked into playing Sony's game by Sony's rules. To achieve that, they have to keep the war about video games and not about digital hubs. Part of that is their gamble, which is winning the video game war on the basis of superior games, not being jack-of-all-trades. So far, they aren't suceeding, mainly because their competition still creates good, solid video gaming experiences despite the fact that it is only part of a larger strategy.
So, that's my take on current afffairs...
I just bought the light gun for my Dreamcast and House of the Dead II(Japanese) from Lik-Sang.