Do you realize if you worked a minimum wage job the same number of hours you've spent bitching about phantom menace you could have MORE than made up for the $8 you lost watching that movie?
I am looking forward to the Film Crew because they are going back and doing old bad movies. The Rifftrax just didn't do it for me because they were commentaries for popular movies. I watched Matrix and X-Men with Rifftrax and while they did have funny moments since I already knew (and liked) the movies there were no surprises. I think part of the fun with the old movies in MST3K was that you never knew when someone was going to come out in a horrible monster costume and that added another level of comedy.
"Remember use only genuine interocitor parts."
I have been playing World of Warcraft every night after work. Last week I was at the airport and I saw this attractive girl from afar. In my mind I tried to right click on her to see what her name and stats were.
1. Is that robot thing with the blue and green lightsabers the same one from the clone wars cartoon?
2. Palpatine and Darth Sidious look like two different people. I thought they were the same. Does Palpatine replace Sidious or does Sidious become the Emperor?
That said, we need to keep in mind that these are first-generation PSP titles. Just look at how the PS2 games have evolved since its launch. If handheld games are looking this good at launch, imagine what a couple years of development time will do. You can expect the same leaps, similar to those found with home based consoles, as developers become more familiar with it.
Signed,
Hector Martinez
Sony PSP Marketing Dept.
Seriously though, the guy gets his own article posted on Slashdot and it is a "nice read". More like PSP love fest. The article failed to mention all the complaints that have been reported about discs popping out, bad pixels, etc. Why didn't he just title the article "The Top Ten Ways to suck Sony Off."
I can see where these two handhelds could coexist. The GBA is small and I can carry it in my pocket anywhere. The DS would be nice for longer trips when I have a backpack or something to carry it in. I'm really looking forward to some N64 ports also.
I bought a GBA link cable for like $5. For $30 you should be getting some kind of Monster brand GBA link cable with gold plated connectors.
I think GBA wireless gaming would be cool, but it would be even cooler if more games supported multiplayer with one game pak. There aren't very many games that my friends and I all own.
What is this 1998? I thought everyone knew by now ROMs are legal if you own the original carts. May I be the first to welcome you to the internet MC Hampster!
Why wouldn't you just buy a GBA flash card and put an NES emulator and roms on it? You can get a few NES games on one cart and it is much more portable.
Company 1: I want the crappy Army Men franchise! Company 2: No I want it! You can't have it. C1: But with 3DO's sucky lineup of games I could release twice as much video game vomit a year! C2: If I don't get 3DO I'll have go back to punching kids in the gut and stealing their lunch money. Granted, it's not as morally apprehensible as releasing Army Men games but it's also not nearly as lucrative.
Someone already made the NES portable, its called the GameAxe. It plays Famicom games, but a converter will allow it to play NES. Although I can't really see how portable the system would be when you are playing aircraft carrier sized cartridges.
I'm really concerned about the combination of Sonic Team and UGA making games for "Casual Gamers". Generally the titles produced by these teams is anything but.
Rez and Space Channel 5 are ideal for casual gamers. Both only use the control pad and 2 buttons. They have the simplicity of an NES game.
When I think "Casual Gamers" innovation and creativity usually does not come to mind.
If I look at the most popular games played by my non-gamer friends there is Tony Hawk, GTA3, Super Smash Bros Melee and The Sims. I think these are all innovative and creative games. I hope more games are marketed towards casual gamers so that video gaming can become more mainstream and shake its stigma of being "adolescent boys who don't go outside."
There are always new games coming out with hideous cover art. Take a look at the just released Freestyle Metal X for the PS2. All they did was take the movie poster from Bullworth and add a guy on a bike.
The first Vib Ribbon game didn't use a text file. Once you loaded the game you would replace the game disc with a music cd. Then the game levels would be created based on your music. The levels would be different for every song. I don't know where this whole text file thing came from.
I'm hoping the sequel is the same way. Then you have a rhythm game that's only as good as your music collection.
Did they even go through with their last two so-called "campaigns." As far as I can tell Acclaim's marketing strategy is to come up with outlandish stunts just to get in the news. I haven't see any evidence of them following through.
Here's my idea for a marketing strategy: go to resturants and replace the straws with ones the Acclaim logo. The trick is the straws don't work. The message is "Acclaim doesn't suck!" Unfortuately, Acclaim probably can't afford the money and effort that would need to be used to make their games not suck.
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Do you realize if you worked a minimum wage job the same number of hours you've spent bitching about phantom menace you could have MORE than made up for the $8 you lost watching that movie?
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I am looking forward to the Film Crew because they are going back and doing old bad movies. The Rifftrax just didn't do it for me because they were commentaries for popular movies. I watched Matrix and X-Men with Rifftrax and while they did have funny moments since I already knew (and liked) the movies there were no surprises. I think part of the fun with the old movies in MST3K was that you never knew when someone was going to come out in a horrible monster costume and that added another level of comedy. "Remember use only genuine interocitor parts."
I am working on a screenplay of this very same topic. It is called "Billy and the Cloneasaurus."
I have been playing World of Warcraft every night after work. Last week I was at the airport and I saw this attractive girl from afar. In my mind I tried to right click on her to see what her name and stats were.
If only it were that easy...
1. Is that robot thing with the blue and green lightsabers the same one from the clone wars cartoon?
2. Palpatine and Darth Sidious look like two different people. I thought they were the same. Does Palpatine replace Sidious or does Sidious become the Emperor?
That said, we need to keep in mind that these are first-generation PSP titles. Just look at how the PS2 games have evolved since its launch. If handheld games are looking this good at launch, imagine what a couple years of development time will do. You can expect the same leaps, similar to those found with home based consoles, as developers become more familiar with it.
Signed,
Hector Martinez
Sony PSP Marketing Dept.
Seriously though, the guy gets his own article posted on Slashdot and it is a "nice read". More like PSP love fest. The article failed to mention all the complaints that have been reported about discs popping out, bad pixels, etc. Why didn't he just title the article "The Top Ten Ways to suck Sony Off."
What a coincidence, I just wrote an article called "Time to Kill John Dvorak?"
There is a widescreen VHS set of the original trilogy. My brother has it. It came with a fourth tape of the making of Star Wars.
I've been playing DDR in various arcades for two years now but this article makes it sound a lot more interesting than it actually is.
Groupies? C'mon.
And all of this went on before video games were even invented? Facinating.
I can see where these two handhelds could coexist. The GBA is small and I can carry it in my pocket anywhere. The DS would be nice for longer trips when I have a backpack or something to carry it in. I'm really looking forward to some N64 ports also.
I bought a GBA link cable for like $5. For $30 you should be getting some kind of Monster brand GBA link cable with gold plated connectors.
I think GBA wireless gaming would be cool, but it would be even cooler if more games supported multiplayer with one game pak. There aren't very many games that my friends and I all own.
That's odd, I see Nintendo as the outsider where Atari and Intellivsion were once kings.
And yet you weren't able to post any of them. Shame.
What is this 1998? I thought everyone knew by now ROMs are legal if you own the original carts. May I be the first to welcome you to the internet MC Hampster!
Why wouldn't you just buy a GBA flash card and put an NES emulator and roms on it? You can get a few NES games on one cart and it is much more portable.
Company 1: I want the crappy Army Men franchise!
Company 2: No I want it! You can't have it.
C1: But with 3DO's sucky lineup of games I could release twice as much video game vomit a year!
C2: If I don't get 3DO I'll have go back to punching kids in the gut and stealing their lunch money. Granted, it's not as morally apprehensible as releasing Army Men games but it's also not nearly as lucrative.
After a month with gamefly I wrote a full review here. Overall I am extremely happy with the service.
Someone already made the NES portable, its called the GameAxe. It plays Famicom games, but a converter will allow it to play NES. Although I can't really see how portable the system would be when you are playing aircraft carrier sized cartridges.
I'm really concerned about the combination of Sonic Team and UGA making games for "Casual Gamers". Generally the titles produced by these teams is anything but.
Rez and Space Channel 5 are ideal for casual gamers. Both only use the control pad and 2 buttons. They have the simplicity of an NES game.
When I think "Casual Gamers" innovation and creativity usually does not come to mind.
If I look at the most popular games played by my non-gamer friends there is Tony Hawk, GTA3, Super Smash Bros Melee and The Sims. I think these are all innovative and creative games. I hope more games are marketed towards casual gamers so that video gaming can become more mainstream and shake its stigma of being "adolescent boys who don't go outside."
There are always new games coming out with hideous cover art. Take a look at the just released Freestyle Metal X for the PS2. All they did was take the movie poster from Bullworth and add a guy on a bike.
The first Vib Ribbon game didn't use a text file. Once you loaded the game you would replace the game disc with a music cd. Then the game levels would be created based on your music. The levels would be different for every song. I don't know where this whole text file thing came from.
I'm hoping the sequel is the same way. Then you have a rhythm game that's only as good as your music collection.
Did they even go through with their last two so-called "campaigns." As far as I can tell Acclaim's marketing strategy is to come up with outlandish stunts just to get in the news. I haven't see any evidence of them following through.
Here's my idea for a marketing strategy: go to resturants and replace the straws with ones the Acclaim logo. The trick is the straws don't work. The message is "Acclaim doesn't suck!" Unfortuately, Acclaim probably can't afford the money and effort that would need to be used to make their games not suck.
Actually that article was referring to commercial skip, not the 30 sec advance.