There is also the fact that otaku is Japanese for nerd, and the defining characteristic of the stereotypical otaku is a love of anime and science fiction. (Think trekkie, otaku dress as their favorite characters, cosplay, and go to conventions, and stand online for hours... not much different than the current series of strips about X-Men on Userfriendly. Actually, though I think it's kind of pointless to argue with these, "How is this news for nerds?" people, as the majority of people reading/. these days are not geeks or nerds but greedy.com wannabes. It's sad really, I hate to see a site go downhill like this one has. Next we'll be seeing people as "How is a new Star Wars/Star Trek/Babylon 5/Lord of the Rings/Dungeons and Dragons movie 'News for Nerds'?"
As always, I refer people to Otaku No Video, to see how otaku are the geeks of Japanese society and how this relates to anime.
A little while ago, I made a theme based around Tenchi Muyo's Ryoko, so I wouldn't have to be jealous of all the Windows users who had their own Ryoko theme:
All I really did was take Ryoko art from the Web and create a bunch of configuration files to map it to the K Desktop Environment, so I don't deserve much credit. The real credit goes to Cabbit.com where there are a lot of Ryoko pictures available for download (and which I have no involvement with at all except to think it is a cool site.
I'm glad that the reports of Tenchi's demise were "greatly exagerated," I only hope this movie will be as good as the first Tenchi OAV series.
"So," said Ryoko, as she prepared to blast Tenchi to smithereens.
Actually, though, there were people who wanted to restrict the sale of Zork because of its links to the "Satanic" D&D game.
There was a "New Zork Times" or "Status Line" article about it.
Of course SoF will be rated, and most stores will restrict sale of or rental to minors.
I have no objection to video/computer games being treated the same as movies. It's the fact that they have been especially demonized that irritates me.
Oh, and I'm a First Amendment zealot, of course.
Reemember there are people who think it is acceptible, even necessary to restrict kids access to Huckleberry Finn, so I never embrace government censorship since it is a beast I don't control.
"3-D" isn't flashy anyway, it's just a way of saying, "Look, you, Joe Gamer, really want these ugly polygon characters that will probably never look as good as sprites. Why? Oh, they're '3-D' and they let us sell the companies that develop games more expensive development kits... oooh, I mean, they are in '3-D' whoo-hoo forget that last part... Er, no you don't need any special glasses to see the '3-D,' that's it... whaddaya mean it still looks like '2-D' to you, just a different persepective view? Hey, take this guy for next-gen re-education... oh, and smash his copy of Marvel vs. Capcom... how'd we ever let that one make it to the States??"
you might as well go spend $89 at your local Target/Wal-mart and get the darn unit - no compatibility issues
Hmm, this just isn't true. I bought a few games for my Playstation which come up with that circle-slash thing, and "How dare you Americans try to play Japanese games!?!" messages on my modded Playstation. Some of these games work pretty well in Bleem! though (some minor problems with the music not quite syncing up with the game). That's a compatibility issue that works in Bleem!'s favor... Sony doesn't want Americans to be able to play Japanese games, but plenty of Americans want to play them. I. E. Sony deliberately makes it's games incompatible with American systems, even going through the effort of creating code to defeat work-arounds that enterprising people develop. This is one of their most important reason for trying to destroy Bleem! and Connectix.
I also doubt that the point of Bleem! for Dreamcast is to sell to people who already have Playstations.
In conclusion, Sony sucks.
If they ever get the Micros~1 style monopoly they want over video gaming, expect games to show the same high level of quality and originality as Windows shows stability and security.
At my job, I'm currently playing a real life game of xbill (and losing, I might add). Basically, we used to be run from California, and all the technology decisions were made there. However, there was a change in management and the new tech guy is a Windows-head. I should point out that he is not a computer science guy, but computers for business kind of guy.
Well, basically, Tampa (or at least our office) is in a timewarp, I've heard my new boss refer to Linux as "underground crap" and "freeware," as well as a constant din of saying "Linux sucks" anytime any problem arises. (The application we were left with was a Big Ball of Mud, but this has nothing to do with Linux. The new guy finds it convenient for pushing his agenda, though, to blame every single problem on Linux and say, "If this were NT, we'd be done already.")
Well, that being said, every Linux box we've gotten here in the Tampa office he wants to "blast" (his term for re-format) and make into an NT/2000/Tinkertoy-whatever box. Even if they have valuable information on them that will be lost... and I haven't been able to effectively defend Linux against this onslaught. I mean, how can I when the guy has no problem lying if it will prevent him from having to learn something non-Windows? It's his word against mine, and he can find FUD to back up his side to counter any pro-Linux research I might do. (He's more experienced than I am, and even though I've been at the company longer he's considered senior.)
So, people shouldn't think that Linux is winning the war of the office. Maybe in CA it is, but here in the stix, Bill Gates' tinkertoy-set still reigns supreme.
Any tips on how to fix this situation would be greatly appreciated... though I realize I'll probably get a lot of Windows-head who seem to frequent Slashdot now telling me I should go with the flow....
Speaking of 8-Bit games which blow away modern games in terms of quality, style and just plain fun, I just got Rockman3 Complete for my Playstation. Of course it won't run in my modded Playstation, because it has Capcoms double-secure modchip detector in it I suppose Capcom U.S. has caved into Sony's demand that, "Only sucky, poorly controlling, ugly polygon versions of classic games like MegaMan will be allowed in the U.S. So it has been written, so it shall be done. Only by making every game look exactly like Tomb Raider can we express originality (even if they won't even control as well). Oh, and chuck out all the books as well, video is much more advanced." However, Rockman3 Complete runs great in PC Bleem!
Therefore, I'm guessing it will run great in Dreamcast Bleem! The great thing about this, of course, is that the whole Rockman Complete series is available from importers. Sigh, I feel sorry for modern gamers, they don't even get to play decent sprite based games when they come out in Japan... Um... if you want them, you'd better hurry, when I checked Rockman2 was _sold_out_!!! @.@
For a while, the Gameboy was the single most successful gaming machine ever created (it may still be).
All the other gaming companies want that, desperately. However, they aren't sure how to get it.
My opinion this is that only Nintendo, for a long time, really worked hard on the portable market. (Pokemon was a Gameboy game before it was anything, for example.) Some other companies produced systems that didn't work for one reason or another (poor management at Atari, a similar problem at NEC. I think if NEC had stuck with Turbo Express they might really have had something), but every now and then someone else trys for Nintendo's brass ring.
Sega broke Nintendo's grip on the console market by offering a more powerful system, so I think other companies are looking at doing the same thing in the portable market... with the notable exception of SNK.
Actually, I think Jon Katz would be far happier with Mage: The Ascension or almost anything else from White Wolf.
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We need to make sure any poor saps who are stuck with such a system are aware of things like Workspot and Linux4Windows (see your friendly neighborhood Mandrake distribution for details), then.
The above post (the one that starts with "That's a mighty nice sentiment.(link)"), though at 0 and posted by an AC, is far more intelligent and insightful than the idiotic +3 Troll it is responding to.
Oh, and to the idiot moderators who modded the Troll up... wake up!!! This moron has been posting for months as an AC and he always starts his post with... "I used to work for a..." He's just trying to put a cat among the canaries, and it is really sad when Slashdot has sunk so low that moderators are falling for this!
Trust me, the guy never worked for a licensing company.
I wish I could give this advice to everyone, but I'll post it here. This is very simple. I suspect Iron Chef wouldn't be very big (on US TV) without the Internet. Why? Because people who watch the Food Network aren't necessarily interested in a TV Show which focuses on "cooking as a pitched battle," and people who are interested in food as a pitched battle aren't necessarily expecting to find such a thing on the Food Network.
So, by telling people on the Internet about the show, the Food Network gained viewers and so did the show. (I certainly wouldn't have ever watched it if I hadn't seen information about it on the Internet.) Now, I'm not going to watch the show anymore, and I'll be sending letters to Fuji and the Food Network explaining that. However, enough people know about the show now that it doesn't matter if they trample all over their hard-core fans. It's too late, I told my brother (for example) and when I tell him I'm boycotting he might stop watching... but then again he might not (my DVD boycott has had no effect whatever on his voracious appetite for those accurséd consumer goods.)
The only solution to this is for people who want to start fan sites to have lawyer-letters saying they are allowed to do so before they do it. That way, if the companies say, "No, lowly wretch, you can't put up your pathetic fan page," you won't be in the even more degrading position you get later, which is, "Lowly wretch, how dare you praise our show!! Grovel before us and take down your miserable page," after you were one of the ones who propelled the show to popularity.
Unlikely as it is, I hope people will consider joining my boycott of Iron Chef (which, coincidentally, I started watching after the Iron Chef poll here on Slashdot... has Slashdot recieved a "cease and desist" letter?). It's a great show, it is a pity creative people so often sell out their art to disgusting, depraved corporations.
There are plenty of neat features in languages that people don't necessarily learn that can turn out to:
a) Increase productivity
and b) Decrease Errors
over time. For example, you can write programs in Java without knowing how to use vector... but someday, when you find out about it you'll be sorry, probably.
People should take the time to learn how to code properly in a few different languages. It is a pity that they don't teach this sort of thing in school...
Oh, one other thing, what happens when you only learn index = index + 1; but the last coder on the project you inherited used index++; (mixed in with a lot of other barely-commented, obfuscated stuff all of which you have to search through books to figure out) and you only have limited time to debug the code before the application ships? It might help if you had learned the correct way to increment variables rather than just kludged something together from limited knowledge.
Sorry, but index = index + 1; works... but it is also the wrong way to increment.
Of course, there were a lot of similarities between episodes, but the coolest part was at the end of the episode, when the bad guys realized they had been conned. (Especially if the bad guys had bosses who treated foul ups the way Blofeld treated foul ups.)
But just as people will take names off of classic videogames and stick them on "Just another Tomb Raider clone," people will take TV Shows and put their names on more "modern" films... (i.e. shows that fall into typical genre movies without much innovation...)
I mean, I would've loved to see the original MI as a spy-sting movie... I guess I still have to watch No Way Out for that...
I wonder how many people who've seen the MI movies have never seen the MI TV show... I feel old.
Professor Henry Jenkins, who was mentioned in the article, had this to say about popular culture after he was done testifying before congress:
When I got there, the situation was ever worse than I had imagined. The Senate chamber was decorated with massive posters of video game ads for some of the most violent games on the market. Many of the ad slogans are hyperbolic -- and self-parodying -- but that nuance was lost on the Senators who read them all deadly seriously and with absolute literalness. Most of the others testifying with professional witnesses who had done this kind of thing many times before. They had their staff. They had their props. They had professionally edited videos. They had each other for moral support. I had my wife and son in the back of the room. They are passing out press releases, setting up interviews, being tracked down by the major media and no one is talking to me. I try to introduce myself to the other witnesses. Grossman, the military psychologist who thinks video games are training our kids to be killers, won't shake my hand when I wave it in front of him. I am trying to keep my distance from the media industry types because I don't want to be perceived as an apologist for the industry -- even though, given the way this was set up, they were my closest allies in the room. This is set up so you can either be anti-popular culture or pro-industry and the thought that as citizens we might have legitimate investments in the culture we consume was beyond anyone's comprehension. --from Prof. Jenkins Letterhttp://members.tripod.com/g amesandpolitics/jenkins.html
This is the problem with the country right now, the people who govern us are not part of our culture. I'm guessing they have their own culture, which is in a seperate realm from that of the average person. I wonder how many members of Congress have never seen a Star Wars movie, for instance.
To them, popular culture isn't culture, it's just a way for their buddys, the media barons, to make huge fortunes (and give some of it to them.). They see themselves as superior to the people they govern... and that's the quickest route to fascism I can think of.
When Time/Warner (boo!! hiss!!!) took over Atari, they brought about the crash of the video game industry. What were the hallmarks of this crash? Video game manufacturers who cared nothing about producing quality games or customer goodwill, but saw games as a license to print money. Look at the crummy Pac-Man for the 2600, or worse yet, the landfills full of E.T. games.
Right now, we have a video game industry that is, to put it mildly, profit driven. I know what some people will say, "But all industry is driven by profit! All any sane person gives a damn about is money and profits! Nothing else matters!" These people are wrong, because games, DVDs and the like, are luxuries. A person doesn't need games to survive and if the market becomes driven entirely by greed, it will collapse. (Although, people do seem to be willing to put up with a lot from the IP tyrants, they won't put up with crummy, junk games... because they don't have to.)
What has this got to do with emulation? It's simple, companies refuse to release old games, which were actually good in any format. They also refuse to allow games that don't fit into their idea of what people would like in a region to enter that region. They are trying to turn the gaming experience into "rental only."
I've reached a point where I am losing interest in consoles altogether, because I realize that very little that is actually good is produced for them any more. The best games I've bought for consoles recently were Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Final Fantasy Collection, both old games from the age of 16-bit consoles. It's a sad day when the game you are most hoping will come out for your system is Chrono Trigger/i> because you don't expect anything modern to match it.
No wonder the gaming cartels are so afraid of the games from their glory days!
There was a movie recently, The Thomas Crown affair, that was basically based on the theme of "theft as performance art."
Hence the term, "con artist." Basically, it is like the arguments people have about graffiti. Some graffiti obviously is supposed to be art, but people are putting it where it isn't legally allowed to be. So, viruses are, in my opinion, graffiti. Like graffiti they can be crude and ugly or not, depending on the creator.
Believe me, I used to know an OK artist... she had a lousy attitude and was a nasty person, but she was good at drawing (not graffiti, just regular sketches). Just because something could be considered art doesn't make it morally right.
Still, the really dangerous virus/worm/trojan.. if it ever comes... will not be a kind of graffiti/guerilla art as the current ones are... it will lurk silently on multiple systems, giving control of them to the virogen when he/she needs it.
by warpeightbot (warpeightbot at-sign yahoo! dot-com) on Wednesday May 17, @03:30PM EST (#65) (User Info)
OK, enough already. To think that this boor not only got modded up, but modded up enough times to get a default +1, tells me that moderation has utterly failed on Slashdot. The trolls have taken over, it's time to move on.
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He's right, the trolls have taken over (to prove it, his post got modded down to 0), if someone doesn't do something soon, there won't be anymore Slashdot. (At least not one worth visiting.)
Anyone remember back when Sega and Nintendo were fighting for console dominance? Each company tried to have exclusive games that other companies couldn't have.
The trouble is, currently, "the Linux lag." Until a game that everybody wants comes out for Linux first (or better still Linux only) it destroys Linux sales. Why? Because almost everyone already has Windows and very few people are willing to wait for games to come out for Linux when they may not come out at all.
The first killer app Linux game will probably be Free Software, and will hopefully be something new and unique. Something that will make gamers say, "I've got to have that" and something that is so big even marketeers have to take notice.
The other solution Linux developers can come up with is a better DirectX than DirectX which will allow games written for it to run equally well under Windows or Linux with no re-coding. (Basically some kind of cross platform gaming Virtual Machine).
Who is in charge of counting the "million" mom's, anyway?
It seems like an arbitrary figure arrived at purely so the media will repeat the alliterative Million Mom March, over and over again. After all, how do you count the number of people at a march... before you've had the march?
This propaganda technique was employed by both Hitler and the Soviet Union, it's called the big lie. (In other words, if you say the same big lie, over and over again, you get a significant percentage of the population believing it.)
Neutral says: Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah! Blah! I am Bill Gates love slave!
Talk about pathetic lusers, here's a quarter, go buy yourself a real OS.
It's going to be sad, really, when no one is hiring you MSEs anymore. You can hold up a sign... "Will write useless, bloated, insecure, virus-prone proprietary spaghetti code for food..."
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As always, I refer people to Otaku No Video, to see how otaku are the geeks of Japanese society and how this relates to anime.
KDE Ryoko Theme
All I really did was take Ryoko art from the Web and create a bunch of configuration files to map it to the K Desktop Environment, so I don't deserve much credit. The real credit goes to Cabbit.com where there are a lot of Ryoko pictures available for download (and which I have no involvement with at all except to think it is a cool site.
I'm glad that the reports of Tenchi's demise were "greatly exagerated," I only hope this movie will be as good as the first Tenchi OAV series.
"So," said Ryoko, as she prepared to blast Tenchi to smithereens.
Actually, though, there were people who wanted to restrict the sale of Zork because of its links to the "Satanic" D&D game.
There was a "New Zork Times" or "Status Line" article about it.
Of course SoF will be rated, and most stores will restrict sale of or rental to minors.
I have no objection to video/computer games being treated the same as movies. It's the fact that they have been especially demonized that irritates me.
Oh, and I'm a First Amendment zealot, of course.
Reemember there are people who think it is acceptible, even necessary to restrict kids access to Huckleberry Finn, so I never embrace government censorship since it is a beast I don't control.
I also doubt that the point of Bleem! for Dreamcast is to sell to people who already have Playstations.
In conclusion, Sony sucks.
If they ever get the Micros~1 style monopoly they want over video gaming, expect games to show the same high level of quality and originality as Windows shows stability and security.
Well, basically, Tampa (or at least our office) is in a timewarp, I've heard my new boss refer to Linux as "underground crap" and "freeware," as well as a constant din of saying "Linux sucks" anytime any problem arises. (The application we were left with was a Big Ball of Mud, but this has nothing to do with Linux. The new guy finds it convenient for pushing his agenda, though, to blame every single problem on Linux and say, "If this were NT, we'd be done already.")
Well, that being said, every Linux box we've gotten here in the Tampa office he wants to "blast" (his term for re-format) and make into an NT/2000/Tinkertoy-whatever box. Even if they have valuable information on them that will be lost... and I haven't been able to effectively defend Linux against this onslaught. I mean, how can I when the guy has no problem lying if it will prevent him from having to learn something non-Windows? It's his word against mine, and he can find FUD to back up his side to counter any pro-Linux research I might do. (He's more experienced than I am, and even though I've been at the company longer he's considered senior.)
So, people shouldn't think that Linux is winning the war of the office. Maybe in CA it is, but here in the stix, Bill Gates' tinkertoy-set still reigns supreme.
Any tips on how to fix this situation would be greatly appreciated... though I realize I'll probably get a lot of Windows-head who seem to frequent Slashdot now telling me I should go with the flow....
Therefore, I'm guessing it will run great in Dreamcast Bleem! The great thing about this, of course, is that the whole Rockman Complete series is available from importers. Sigh, I feel sorry for modern gamers, they don't even get to play decent sprite based games when they come out in Japan... Um... if you want them, you'd better hurry, when I checked Rockman2 was _sold_out_!!! @.@
Hooray for Bleem! for Dreamcast!
http://www.xiph.org/about.html
Good troll attempt, though.
Insightful?
All the other gaming companies want that, desperately. However, they aren't sure how to get it.
My opinion this is that only Nintendo, for a long time, really worked hard on the portable market. (Pokemon was a Gameboy game before it was anything, for example.) Some other companies produced systems that didn't work for one reason or another (poor management at Atari, a similar problem at NEC. I think if NEC had stuck with Turbo Express they might really have had something), but every now and then someone else trys for Nintendo's brass ring.
Sega broke Nintendo's grip on the console market by offering a more powerful system, so I think other companies are looking at doing the same thing in the portable market... with the notable exception of SNK.
Hooray, looks like my dream of living in an episode of Dr. Who will soon come true.
We need to make sure any poor saps who are stuck with such a system are aware of things like Workspot and Linux4Windows (see your friendly neighborhood Mandrake distribution for details), then.
Oh, and to the idiot moderators who modded the Troll up... wake up!!! This moron has been posting for months as an AC and he always starts his post with... "I used to work for a..." He's just trying to put a cat among the canaries, and it is really sad when Slashdot has sunk so low that moderators are falling for this!
Trust me, the guy never worked for a licensing company.
Of course, he was just excusing the destruction of the concept of neighborhood because it favored OCP's corporate goals.
I think we are seeing the rise of corporation based tyranny, in which property is owned by corporations, not individuals.
IamnotanumberIamafreeman...
hahahahaha
So, by telling people on the Internet about the show, the Food Network gained viewers and so did the show. (I certainly wouldn't have ever watched it if I hadn't seen information about it on the Internet.) Now, I'm not going to watch the show anymore, and I'll be sending letters to Fuji and the Food Network explaining that. However, enough people know about the show now that it doesn't matter if they trample all over their hard-core fans. It's too late, I told my brother (for example) and when I tell him I'm boycotting he might stop watching... but then again he might not (my DVD boycott has had no effect whatever on his voracious appetite for those accurséd consumer goods.)
The only solution to this is for people who want to start fan sites to have lawyer-letters saying they are allowed to do so before they do it. That way, if the companies say, "No, lowly wretch, you can't put up your pathetic fan page," you won't be in the even more degrading position you get later, which is, "Lowly wretch, how dare you praise our show!! Grovel before us and take down your miserable page," after you were one of the ones who propelled the show to popularity.
Unlikely as it is, I hope people will consider joining my boycott of Iron Chef (which, coincidentally, I started watching after the Iron Chef poll here on Slashdot... has Slashdot recieved a "cease and desist" letter?). It's a great show, it is a pity creative people so often sell out their art to disgusting, depraved corporations.
There are plenty of neat features in languages that people don't necessarily learn that can turn out to:
a) Increase productivity
and b) Decrease Errors
over time. For example, you can write programs in Java without knowing how to use vector... but someday, when you find out about it you'll be sorry, probably.
People should take the time to learn how to code properly in a few different languages. It is a pity that they don't teach this sort of thing in school...
Oh, one other thing, what happens when you only learn index = index + 1; but the last coder on the project you inherited used index++; (mixed in with a lot of other barely-commented, obfuscated stuff all of which you have to search through books to figure out) and you only have limited time to debug the code before the application ships? It might help if you had learned the correct way to increment variables rather than just kludged something together from limited knowledge.
Sorry, but index = index + 1; works... but it is also the wrong way to increment.
Of course, there were a lot of similarities between episodes, but the coolest part was at the end of the episode, when the bad guys realized they had been conned. (Especially if the bad guys had bosses who treated foul ups the way Blofeld treated foul ups.)
But just as people will take names off of classic videogames and stick them on "Just another Tomb Raider clone," people will take TV Shows and put their names on more "modern" films... (i.e. shows that fall into typical genre movies without much innovation...)
I mean, I would've loved to see the original MI as a spy-sting movie... I guess I still have to watch No Way Out for that...
I wonder how many people who've seen the MI movies have never seen the MI TV show... I feel old.
To them, popular culture isn't culture, it's just a way for their buddys, the media barons, to make huge fortunes (and give some of it to them.). They see themselves as superior to the people they govern... and that's the quickest route to fascism I can think of.
Dani Bunten no longer lives (sadly, I think if she were still around she'd be on the right side of this.)
It is the souless, eternal Electronic Arts corporation, which owns things which it does not create that is supressing M.U.L.E. among others...
I wonder how many cases like this one exist?
Right now, we have a video game industry that is, to put it mildly, profit driven. I know what some people will say, "But all industry is driven by profit! All any sane person gives a damn about is money and profits! Nothing else matters!" These people are wrong, because games, DVDs and the like, are luxuries. A person doesn't need games to survive and if the market becomes driven entirely by greed, it will collapse. (Although, people do seem to be willing to put up with a lot from the IP tyrants, they won't put up with crummy, junk games... because they don't have to.)
What has this got to do with emulation? It's simple, companies refuse to release old games, which were actually good in any format. They also refuse to allow games that don't fit into their idea of what people would like in a region to enter that region. They are trying to turn the gaming experience into "rental only."
I've reached a point where I am losing interest in consoles altogether, because I realize that very little that is actually good is produced for them any more. The best games I've bought for consoles recently were Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete and Final Fantasy Collection, both old games from the age of 16-bit consoles. It's a sad day when the game you are most hoping will come out for your system is Chrono Trigger/i> because you don't expect anything modern to match it.
No wonder the gaming cartels are so afraid of the games from their glory days!
Hence the term, "con artist." Basically, it is like the arguments people have about graffiti. Some graffiti obviously is supposed to be art, but people are putting it where it isn't legally allowed to be. So, viruses are, in my opinion, graffiti. Like graffiti they can be crude and ugly or not, depending on the creator.
Believe me, I used to know an OK artist... she had a lousy attitude and was a nasty person, but she was good at drawing (not graffiti, just regular sketches). Just because something could be considered art doesn't make it morally right.
Still, the really dangerous virus/worm/trojan.. if it ever comes... will not be a kind of graffiti/guerilla art as the current ones are... it will lurk silently on multiple systems, giving control of them to the virogen when he/she needs it.
Anyone remember back when Sega and Nintendo were fighting for console dominance? Each company tried to have exclusive games that other companies couldn't have.
The trouble is, currently, "the Linux lag." Until a game that everybody wants comes out for Linux first (or better still Linux only) it destroys Linux sales. Why? Because almost everyone already has Windows and very few people are willing to wait for games to come out for Linux when they may not come out at all.
The first killer app Linux game will probably be Free Software, and will hopefully be something new and unique. Something that will make gamers say, "I've got to have that" and something that is so big even marketeers have to take notice.
The other solution Linux developers can come up with is a better DirectX than DirectX which will allow games written for it to run equally well under Windows or Linux with no re-coding. (Basically some kind of cross platform gaming Virtual Machine).
It seems like an arbitrary figure arrived at purely so the media will repeat the alliterative Million Mom March, over and over again. After all, how do you count the number of people at a march... before you've had the march?
This propaganda technique was employed by both Hitler and the Soviet Union, it's called the big lie. (In other words, if you say the same big lie, over and over again, you get a significant percentage of the population believing it.)
Is there a neutral party doing the count?
Talk about pathetic lusers, here's a quarter, go buy yourself a real OS.
It's going to be sad, really, when no one is hiring you MSEs anymore. You can hold up a sign... "Will write useless, bloated, insecure, virus-prone proprietary spaghetti code for food..."