"Nearly 15 percent of all DS owners bought Nintendogs in just a week, a virtually unprecedented adoption rate for any title on an established system," said Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime. "And it's also helping sell new DS hardware. Coupled with a price drop to $129.99, retailers are reporting DS sales up between one and a half and three times previous levels, and last week DS comfortably outsold our portable competitors."
I own a miniature daschund and I also purchased Nintendogs (miniature dashund version even) It has been much easier to teach my Nintendog new tricks. My real dog only knows a few tricks and one is just rolling onto his back and being as hard to pick up as possible when I tell him I have to go to work.
Why can't people own both? Maybe they aren't too lazy to raise real pets. Maybe they are just pet/dog fanatics. I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of the younger female DS owners actually have dogs at home as well. That's how it goes around my part of town at least. The family is made up of a few children, mom and dad, and for the most part, a pet or two. These are the same families that are purchasing Nintendogs for their kids. They didn't want a tamagotchi back in the day because they were to lazy for a real one or they didn't like their dog. They bought one because they were cool and fun to play with and the experience was different from playing with their real pets.
It looks like Main Event is only a Texas thing so it's not very widespread. Gameworks is nice too but again, they don't have them everywhere. They do have all you can play for $10 bucks on Thursday from 7pm to close. There are also a large number of Putt-Putts in the D/FW area. Some of them have become lame but there are still enough that have games to play.
I started a business as an arcade operator (putting games in other locations and giving the business owner a % of the cash) but eventually the money that was coming in died down enough that I sold off my games and stopped doing that all together.
Do they have adult entertainment centers in your area? I'm talking like Main Event, Dave and Busters type places. Full of arcade games, pool tables and beer. They make the younger kids leave early so the adults can stay late. Main Event has bowling, a smoking room and two bars as well as laser tag and a huge arcade. I play Beatmania III every time I go.
That back in the day Capcom unveiled a new street fighter...and it was Street Fighter: The Movie. Just because it's Street Fighter doesn't mean it'll be good.
IGN has a good list of games that can be played by multiple people with only one cart using the GBA. This isn't wireless...it's wired multiplayer but it's still a pretty good and interesting list to check out. It's a bit dated so I'm sure they should have more on the list but I thought it might be of interest since we are talking about handhelds and multiplayer.
You got me to thinking about Gauntlet 3 for the Lynx. I had that game but I never got a chance to play it multiplayer. Was it 8 player? I know you could pick from ten different characters and I found the list of characters online. Elf, Valkyrie, Wizard, Warrior, Pirate, Gunfighter, Samurai, Android, Nerd and Punkrocker. Gauntlet 8 player would have been pretty cool. I remember the Lynx pushing the more than 2 player multiplayer aspect...it was just that almost no one had a Lynx to play with. Finding 8 people to play with would have been impossible for me at the time.
It was also one of those games where you had to actually rotate the lynx to play it. That wasn't very ergonomic at all.
The Pioneer LaserActive was freaking expensive when it came out (main unit around $700). I think it was more than the 3D0. The add on modules for the Genesis or TG-16 cost more than the original systems were running at the time. I think the LaserActive counts as a game system. It had laser disk games that you couldn't play on anything else at the time.
That's what I was getting out of it as well. Like when you hold a spinning gyroscope and you turn your hand it pulls your hand and puts force against it. That could be pretty cool if done correctly.
Thanks for the correction. I somehow talked my parents into getting me a Lynx "Deluxe Package" back in the day. I'm not sure how I talked them into spending the money on it but I enjoyed it while I had it (as long as I had it plugged into the wall and not running on batteries.)
Interesting commentary on today's society...people would rather invest in a virtual dog than accept the responsibility of owning an actual pet.
I could see it helping from a parents standpoint. Their child is begging them for a dog but the parents "know" that their child won't take care of it, give it water, feed it on a regular basis, etc. Instead they get the child Nintendogs. It helps teach responsibility to the child (the dog will run out into the neighborhood if you neglect it) and show whether or not the child could be trusted with a real animal....maybe, I don't know, I'm just going with it.
I don't mind Sean Baby so much. I thought he was great as the guest host on Attack of the Show. He was funny and things were flowing well between him and the rest of the AOTS people. I've never been face to face with him though so it might be a totally different experience.
G4 already does have something they call the G-Spot. I don't think it's actually a show per se. I don't know what the G-Spot is (in regards to g4techtv) but they are always talking about it. "Catch it at the G-Spot." I think it's pretty lame.
Yes, I hope so. Nothing like watching X-Play only to find out it's Adam and Morgan letting you know when the PSP is going to be released. Reruns of review shows do not work very well at all.
I do wish that would let people send in video auditions for the new host of Attack of the Show. Some of us don't live in New York or LA and we might make a good host. I'm here in the middle of Texas and didn't have the means to audition in person. Oh well, I'm going to have my wife apply to be the new fragdoll. At least they take email resumes.
At least Nintendo was nice enough to give us a memory card for Animal Crossing when we purchased it. It would have sucked to get a game and then need to erase every save you had on your memcard just to play a new game.
I live in "Podunk" and things are cheaper for sure. The best part about going to the movies here is that they will collect cell phones from people that are using them/looking at them during the movie. As soon as they see the screen light up they walk over and take the cell phone until the movie is over. Wouldn't work in a bigger city, but it works here.
First and foremonst, I want to play SNES games
Well buying a device made by Sony was the best way to do that. Why not just get a Super Nintendo. I don't think you understand how easy and how well the homebrew apps work for the GBA.
The Genesis had a code (ABACABB) but you had to use a Game Genie / Pro Action Replay on the SNES and all it really did was turn the sweat red. Good call on the Genesis thing though. I'm surprised it wasn't a bigger deal at the time (at least it was to me).
Ready to Rumble did this on the Dreamcast as well. I know it did on Halloween and Christmas at least.
What about, "You Don't Know Jack."? Seems like it always does something on holidays (like insulting you for playing alone on New Years Eve)
Speaking of YDKJ, if you have The Lost Gold check this out (copied from eeggs.com):
1. As in the other YDKJ games, start up a game with 3 contestants
2. When you get the chance to play for a Gibberish Question, take it in turns as each player to type in "Fuck you" (but with no quote marks)
3. As has happened in previous YDKJ games, the quizmaster will remove points, rename and insult you... but he'll eventually totally lose it (he must have said the f word, about 10 times in total), and "drop you into a game more suited to your intellect", which is 'Gorilla Hunter'. Welcome to a low-res jungle screen with 6 bullets, no reload function, and no onscreen movement! You have to Alt+Tab your way out of this game, as far as I can tell, as there's no 'end' to it..
What about the NES I've seen on Ebay a few times? It has a CD drive so you just throw in a cd full of roms and you can play any of them on the console on the TV in the living room. Is that legal? It doesn't have any games on it but they make it pretty clear that you use a CD to play games, not original carts.
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From IGN:
"Nearly 15 percent of all DS owners bought Nintendogs in just a week, a virtually unprecedented adoption rate for any title on an established system," said Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime. "And it's also helping sell new DS hardware. Coupled with a price drop to $129.99, retailers are reporting DS sales up between one and a half and three times previous levels, and last week DS comfortably outsold our portable competitors."
http://ds.ign.com/articles/647/647328p1.html
I own a miniature daschund and I also purchased Nintendogs (miniature dashund version even) It has been much easier to teach my Nintendog new tricks. My real dog only knows a few tricks and one is just rolling onto his back and being as hard to pick up as possible when I tell him I have to go to work.
Why can't people own both? Maybe they aren't too lazy to raise real pets. Maybe they are just pet/dog fanatics. I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of the younger female DS owners actually have dogs at home as well. That's how it goes around my part of town at least. The family is made up of a few children, mom and dad, and for the most part, a pet or two. These are the same families that are purchasing Nintendogs for their kids. They didn't want a tamagotchi back in the day because they were to lazy for a real one or they didn't like their dog. They bought one because they were cool and fun to play with and the experience was different from playing with their real pets.
Is Band Brothers ever coming to the US? I finally gave up and imported it. I couldn't wait any longer.
It looks like Main Event is only a Texas thing so it's not very widespread. Gameworks is nice too but again, they don't have them everywhere. They do have all you can play for $10 bucks on Thursday from 7pm to close. There are also a large number of Putt-Putts in the D/FW area. Some of them have become lame but there are still enough that have games to play.
I started a business as an arcade operator (putting games in other locations and giving the business owner a % of the cash) but eventually the money that was coming in died down enough that I sold off my games and stopped doing that all together.
Do they have adult entertainment centers in your area? I'm talking like Main Event, Dave and Busters type places. Full of arcade games, pool tables and beer. They make the younger kids leave early so the adults can stay late. Main Event has bowling, a smoking room and two bars as well as laser tag and a huge arcade. I play Beatmania III every time I go.
That back in the day Capcom unveiled a new street fighter...and it was Street Fighter: The Movie. Just because it's Street Fighter doesn't mean it'll be good.
Although I'm pretty sure it will be.
IGN has a good list of games that can be played by multiple people with only one cart using the GBA. This isn't wireless...it's wired multiplayer but it's still a pretty good and interesting list to check out. It's a bit dated so I'm sure they should have more on the list but I thought it might be of interest since we are talking about handhelds and multiplayer.
Here it is http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/358/358050p1.html
You got me to thinking about Gauntlet 3 for the Lynx. I had that game but I never got a chance to play it multiplayer. Was it 8 player? I know you could pick from ten different characters and I found the list of characters online. Elf, Valkyrie, Wizard, Warrior, Pirate, Gunfighter, Samurai, Android, Nerd and Punkrocker. Gauntlet 8 player would have been pretty cool. I remember the Lynx pushing the more than 2 player multiplayer aspect...it was just that almost no one had a Lynx to play with. Finding 8 people to play with would have been impossible for me at the time.
It was also one of those games where you had to actually rotate the lynx to play it. That wasn't very ergonomic at all.
The Pioneer LaserActive was freaking expensive when it came out (main unit around $700). I think it was more than the 3D0. The add on modules for the Genesis or TG-16 cost more than the original systems were running at the time. I think the LaserActive counts as a game system. It had laser disk games that you couldn't play on anything else at the time.
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http://darkwatcher.psxfanatics.com/console/laser.
That's what I was getting out of it as well. Like when you hold a spinning gyroscope and you turn your hand it pulls your hand and puts force against it. That could be pretty cool if done correctly.
Thanks for the correction. I somehow talked my parents into getting me a Lynx "Deluxe Package" back in the day. I'm not sure how I talked them into spending the money on it but I enjoyed it while I had it (as long as I had it plugged into the wall and not running on batteries.)
Well, the atari lyxn could function in 8 or 16 bit mode and it was released in 1989, the same year as the Gameboy.
Yeah, it kind of lost me at, "The moist soft tongue running up and down the back of your feet."
I don't have a foot fetish.
Interesting commentary on today's society...people would rather invest in a virtual dog than accept the responsibility of owning an actual pet.
I could see it helping from a parents standpoint. Their child is begging them for a dog but the parents "know" that their child won't take care of it, give it water, feed it on a regular basis, etc. Instead they get the child Nintendogs. It helps teach responsibility to the child (the dog will run out into the neighborhood if you neglect it) and show whether or not the child could be trusted with a real animal....maybe, I don't know, I'm just going with it.
The recipients probably weren't that picky about their source.
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No joke. Read the Confessions of an EBay Opium Addict. http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2005-03-17/
I don't mind Sean Baby so much. I thought he was great as the guest host on Attack of the Show. He was funny and things were flowing well between him and the rest of the AOTS people. I've never been face to face with him though so it might be a totally different experience.
G4 already does have something they call the G-Spot. I don't think it's actually a show per se. I don't know what the G-Spot is (in regards to g4techtv) but they are always talking about it. "Catch it at the G-Spot." I think it's pretty lame.
Maybe now G4 will be less based on re-runs.
Yes, I hope so. Nothing like watching X-Play only to find out it's Adam and Morgan letting you know when the PSP is going to be released. Reruns of review shows do not work very well at all.
I guess they are bringing back that Leo Laporte guy soon to do Call for Help. http://www.g4tv.com/callforhelp/index.html and Barbed Wire Biscuit looks pretty cool.
I do wish that would let people send in video auditions for the new host of Attack of the Show. Some of us don't live in New York or LA and we might make a good host. I'm here in the middle of Texas and didn't have the means to audition in person. Oh well, I'm going to have my wife apply to be the new fragdoll. At least they take email resumes.
At least Nintendo was nice enough to give us a memory card for Animal Crossing when we purchased it. It would have sucked to get a game and then need to erase every save you had on your memcard just to play a new game.
I live in "Podunk" and things are cheaper for sure. The best part about going to the movies here is that they will collect cell phones from people that are using them/looking at them during the movie. As soon as they see the screen light up they walk over and take the cell phone until the movie is over. Wouldn't work in a bigger city, but it works here.
First and foremonst, I want to play SNES games Well buying a device made by Sony was the best way to do that. Why not just get a Super Nintendo. I don't think you understand how easy and how well the homebrew apps work for the GBA.
Whatever you do, don't hold DOWN, RIGHT, START, A, B, & C buttons on controller 2 while resetting Rings of Power on the Genesis! http://www.classicgaming.com/thedump/genesis/secre ts.htm
The Genesis had a code (ABACABB) but you had to use a Game Genie / Pro Action Replay on the SNES and all it really did was turn the sweat red. Good call on the Genesis thing though. I'm surprised it wasn't a bigger deal at the time (at least it was to me).
Ready to Rumble did this on the Dreamcast as well. I know it did on Halloween and Christmas at least.
What about, "You Don't Know Jack."? Seems like it always does something on holidays (like insulting you for playing alone on New Years Eve)
Speaking of YDKJ, if you have The Lost Gold check this out (copied from eeggs.com):
1. As in the other YDKJ games, start up a game with 3 contestants
2. When you get the chance to play for a Gibberish Question, take it in turns as each player to type in "Fuck you" (but with no quote marks)
3. As has happened in previous YDKJ games, the quizmaster will remove points, rename and insult you... but he'll eventually totally lose it (he must have said the f word, about 10 times in total), and "drop you into a game more suited to your intellect", which is 'Gorilla Hunter'. Welcome to a low-res jungle screen with 6 bullets, no reload function, and no onscreen movement! You have to Alt+Tab your way out of this game, as far as I can tell, as there's no 'end' to it..
What about the NES I've seen on Ebay a few times? It has a CD drive so you just throw in a cd full of roms and you can play any of them on the console on the TV in the living room. Is that legal? It doesn't have any games on it but they make it pretty clear that you use a CD to play games, not original carts.