I haven't heard of this, but I know that they had a policy a few years ago (not sure if it's still in place) that voided your warranty when you installed any OS other than that shipped with the computer or installed by Sony. Talk about retarded.
The "The Pokemon Company" moniker appears on the new American products, too. I'm not quite sure how the relationship between them and Nintendo is structured, and I'm betting it's somewhat complex.
Gorman's fine. With press coverage like that, he'll never want for a job. I'm personally much more concerned with the classification of such necessarily public data and the government's amazing zeal to deter the "potential terrorist activity" at any cost to Americans. Put things like this next to the USA-PATRIOT Act, and things get even scarier than they were before.
I'm not sure about terrorism, but I've heard that a good deal of what gets put up on eBay is stolen. (The Boston Globe had an article on it a couple years ago.) With all the outright fraud perpetrated by eBay sellers as well, I can't help but think that this might be a good thing.
$5 for (an eventual) 40 hours? That's 12.5 cents an hour. Not bad at all, and about the same price as most battery-operated devices today cost to run. Personally, I'd pay that to have a laptop that could last the duration of a plane trip without having to be recharged. As it is, I can't get through a single DVD movie on my laptop's lithium ion battery.
The Urza block was the last hurrah for modern Magic. Great sets. Things were becoming more broken, but the game was still playable. It was all downhill after Urza's Destiny. Drafts are still a load of fun if you can find enough people to play with. They cost about $15 a pop online, which really sucks, but it's a good way to spend an hour or so once in a while. And if you win, the next draft is basically free.
That's why you play in tournaments for decent prizes, such as booster drafts. They can whine all they want, but you still get the prizes, and they don't. (:
At the risk of sounding like flamebait, what's wrong with PNG? It's miles better than GIF in both quality and file size, and seems ideally suited to small images. Not to mention that it's completely open. Sounds good to me.
Given the current broadcast paradigm, that's true. However, like it or not, advertising is just as capable of taking advantage of the technological advancements we've made as anyone else is. Technology has made it possible for advertisers to go after very specific demographics, and will soon allow all kinds of content companies to move away from the broadcast model and towards more specific, targeted, on-demand content. There's no reason that TV shows have to be scheduled, as long as the producers can still reap as much revenue from them. Soap opera-watching piggies will still be able to get their Tampax commercials, but it will be done at their convenience.
Not that I approve of any of this. It just looks like that's the direction we're moving in right now.
Chu-Chu Rocket is a blast, if you can find a Dreamcast at a decent price. And my buddies and I had way too much fun with Super Monkey Ball last year at school.
Also, Agetec has a game called The Adventures of Cookie and Cream out for PS2 that's basically a 2-player puzzle adventure. It might be just what you're looking for.
Would they pay the increased insurance premiums you'd incur, too? Or was that an added bonus?
Seriously, I think that Acclaim would be much better off actually making good games than forcing shit off on people with insane (and often dangerous and/or unbelieveablytasteless) marketing campaigns that resemble PR stunts more than anything else.
As long as all the integrated devices do everything poorly (which they really do... I don't think you'll find a 3.2 megapixel CCD in a cell phone, and you certainly won't find anything nearly as full-featured as, say, an iPod), I don't think we have to worry about the disappearance of MP3 players and digital cameras just yet.
Ummm... Link/Zelda, Donkey Kong, 151 different Pokemon (more now), Digimon, Pac-Man (I shit you not)...
Of course, only Sonic had two cartoon shows... the serious and cool Japanese version and the abominable American one featuring those two Pokemon rejects.
You're missing something. Video games have much greater exposure in Japan, and the market isn't nearly as narrow as it is in the US, where only a very specific portion of the population plays games. RPG's such as Final Fantasy, for instance, do greater volume in Japan than in America or Europe, regardless of the fact that the country's population is so much lower.
Besides, do you want the titles that they don't market outside of Japan? You know, the 17,000 mahjongg titles and dating simulations? No thanks.
Not likely. Development teams don't determine things like this. Marketing departments do, and most companies I know of have only one of those. Thank god for that. (:
The Japanese inevitably get a second release with all of the American goodies added. (As in the "International" versions of FFVII and FFX, Metal Gear Solid Integral, etc.)
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I haven't heard of this, but I know that they had a policy a few years ago (not sure if it's still in place) that voided your warranty when you installed any OS other than that shipped with the computer or installed by Sony. Talk about retarded.
The "The Pokemon Company" moniker appears on the new American products, too. I'm not quite sure how the relationship between them and Nintendo is structured, and I'm betting it's somewhat complex.
Gorman's fine. With press coverage like that, he'll never want for a job. I'm personally much more concerned with the classification of such necessarily public data and the government's amazing zeal to deter the "potential terrorist activity" at any cost to Americans. Put things like this next to the USA-PATRIOT Act, and things get even scarier than they were before.
I'm not sure about terrorism, but I've heard that a good deal of what gets put up on eBay is stolen. (The Boston Globe had an article on it a couple years ago.) With all the outright fraud perpetrated by eBay sellers as well, I can't help but think that this might be a good thing.
Ironically, OS/2.
$5 for (an eventual) 40 hours? That's 12.5 cents an hour. Not bad at all, and about the same price as most battery-operated devices today cost to run. Personally, I'd pay that to have a laptop that could last the duration of a plane trip without having to be recharged. As it is, I can't get through a single DVD movie on my laptop's lithium ion battery.
The Urza block was the last hurrah for modern Magic. Great sets. Things were becoming more broken, but the game was still playable. It was all downhill after Urza's Destiny. Drafts are still a load of fun if you can find enough people to play with. They cost about $15 a pop online, which really sucks, but it's a good way to spend an hour or so once in a while. And if you win, the next draft is basically free.
That's why you play in tournaments for decent prizes, such as booster drafts. They can whine all they want, but you still get the prizes, and they don't. (:
At the risk of sounding like flamebait, what's wrong with PNG? It's miles better than GIF in both quality and file size, and seems ideally suited to small images. Not to mention that it's completely open. Sounds good to me.
Given the current broadcast paradigm, that's true. However, like it or not, advertising is just as capable of taking advantage of the technological advancements we've made as anyone else is. Technology has made it possible for advertisers to go after very specific demographics, and will soon allow all kinds of content companies to move away from the broadcast model and towards more specific, targeted, on-demand content. There's no reason that TV shows have to be scheduled, as long as the producers can still reap as much revenue from them. Soap opera-watching piggies will still be able to get their Tampax commercials, but it will be done at their convenience.
Not that I approve of any of this. It just looks like that's the direction we're moving in right now.
You can patent anything! Get on the bus!
Better do it fast, before someone patents the bus.
Chu-Chu Rocket is a blast, if you can find a Dreamcast at a decent price. And my buddies and I had way too much fun with Super Monkey Ball last year at school.
Also, Agetec has a game called The Adventures of Cookie and Cream out for PS2 that's basically a 2-player puzzle adventure. It might be just what you're looking for.
Would they pay the increased insurance premiums you'd incur, too? Or was that an added bonus?
Seriously, I think that Acclaim would be much better off actually making good games than forcing shit off on people with insane (and often dangerous and/or unbelieveably tasteless) marketing campaigns that resemble PR stunts more than anything else.
As long as all the integrated devices do everything poorly (which they really do... I don't think you'll find a 3.2 megapixel CCD in a cell phone, and you certainly won't find anything nearly as full-featured as, say, an iPod), I don't think we have to worry about the disappearance of MP3 players and digital cameras just yet.
Ummm... Link/Zelda, Donkey Kong, 151 different Pokemon (more now), Digimon, Pac-Man (I shit you not)...
Of course, only Sonic had two cartoon shows... the serious and cool Japanese version and the abominable American one featuring those two Pokemon rejects.
Or they could... ummm... I don't know, use it to make another movie?
higher younger (and typically cheaper) employees can directly affect the bottom line
Age may be one thing, but I've found that pot definitely has an effect on job performance.
You mean FF9. FF8 was Triple Triad.
You'd be better off learning Japanese than waiting for that to happen.
You're missing something. Video games have much greater exposure in Japan, and the market isn't nearly as narrow as it is in the US, where only a very specific portion of the population plays games. RPG's such as Final Fantasy, for instance, do greater volume in Japan than in America or Europe, regardless of the fact that the country's population is so much lower.
Besides, do you want the titles that they don't market outside of Japan? You know, the 17,000 mahjongg titles and dating simulations? No thanks.
Not likely. Development teams don't determine things like this. Marketing departments do, and most companies I know of have only one of those. Thank god for that. (:
...is November 3.
Wait to get cynical again if and when GameFAQs starts charging you to look at the FAQs - you might even be a happier person in the meantime.
They can't. (At the very least, it would be messy.) FAQ's are the property of the people who wrote them; not CJayC or GameFAQs.
The dance game genre is a thriving market all over the world now. Ever heard of a little game called Dance Dance Revolution?
The Japanese inevitably get a second release with all of the American goodies added. (As in the "International" versions of FFVII and FFX, Metal Gear Solid Integral, etc.)