Ever sit back and think about the good old Nintendo days? The ones where you were constantly blowing into giant chunks of plastic, clutching your hands in pain after a 6-hour NES session and having spinal surgery to correct those experiences you had with the Virtual Boy? Well, I guess maybe those days weren't all that good. The guys at Twitch Guru are keen to point this out in a retrospective article that looks at Nintendo's greatest milestones and their biggest blunders, right from the NES and the 64DD all the way to the DS and the Revolution.It's an interesting read, though it's mainly oriented on Nintendo's commercial failures as opposed to any gameplay deficits or any of their landmark titles. Sure, the N64 may not have set the world on fire, but surely those that owned one got plenty of good gaming hours out of it (provided they weren't playing Superman 64)? Or perhaps I'm just taking offense to having my designer rose-colored glasses stomped upon with such malice. Let me know what you think!
[Via Infendo]
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12-12-2005 @ 4:29PM
Jody Anthony said...
Damn that virtual boy controller looks alot like the gamecubes
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12-12-2005 @ 8:18PM
push2flush said...
Why would a Nintendo DS fansite post this article? They give one (maybe two) nods to Nintendo, and the rest is just them bashing the company as a whole. They focus on the lower points of the two decades of gaming Nintendo has given us, and skip the good things. I'm not saying everyone should be pro-nintendo, but pointing out the bad things while barely acknowledging their achievements. This reads like a sony fanboy was forced to write this article about the big N against his will.
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12-12-2005 @ 8:32PM
JayNorth said...
I remember wanting one of these so bad. As a matter of fact, I'd still buy one for nostalgia's sake. It was good for what it was in it's time.
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12-12-2005 @ 8:33PM
Brandon Daiker said...
That just might be the worst-written, most ill-informed article I've ever read.
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12-12-2005 @ 9:57PM
Zer0bytecode said...
Hey, My Mom for my 13 B-Day bought me a VBoy, and like 7 games, Man that thing was hard on my eyes, Well I gave it to some kid, man he sold it on ebay for like $200.00, man was I dumb.
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12-13-2005 @ 3:45AM
Ludwig Kietzmann said...
"Why would a Nintendo DS fansite post this article?"
Because the article is about Nintendo. I can't just post the positive pieces, now can I? :) As I pointed out in the post, I have problems with the article myself, but I wanted you guys to see it for yourselves and discuss it.
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12-15-2005 @ 3:04PM
retro said...
These guys are ultra-critical. It's like Nintendo murdered their parents when they were small children, and set fire to their houses. Man, this article should've just been named "Nintendo Downs".
However, still a nice walk through the past. :)
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12-16-2005 @ 3:42AM
Dave N said...
Wow. What a terribly written article. He had some points, but it reads like a freshman term paper at the lowest rungs of community college. If you guys link something, please make it readable.
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