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"pro-tips" appears as a phrase in this 1970 golf magazine http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/page/1970jul61-70.pdf
The term caught on among gamers in the early 2000s, and eventually spread everywhere else.
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If only there were a way to make a short cable longer when needed. If they ever invent it I'll be able to mow my whole lawn.
There is one. Time to mow the lawn before the rest of the leaves fall. http://nyko.com/collections/nes-classic-edition/products/ext...
I wonder if the author of the article realizes that "protips", while being an internet meme today, arose as nuggets of gameplay advice from GamePro magazine, some for these very games. It hit me hard in the nostalgia feels to see that again.
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"pro-tips" appears as a phrase in this 1970 golf magazine http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/page/1970jul61-70.pdf
But in gaming culture and all of the references you will see in this thread the phrase originated from PC Gamer as they used those words for their gaming tips.
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I've always had lower end hardware than my peers (still do, except at work!) so maybe you had a different experience than I did... But here goes my experience: Emulators are much harder to play than the original console because milliseconds matter! Maybe not so much for puzzle games (like the Zelda franchise)[0] but certainly for action titles... I don't know much about this "RetroPie", but it sounds like a raspberry…
One thing to consider is this NES Classic Edition appears to be an emulator. It consists of an ARM processor and some flash memory, so it's not going to get you that cycle accurate emulation any better than the current leading emulators (other than any improvements brought about by internal knowledge held by Nintendo).
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If this does even half as well as I expect, they would be insane not to do an SNES one. N64 and Gamecube are more interesting as, while both platforms had some good games, 1) the controllers were absurd, and 2) they don't have the same nostalgia feel with a wider audience that the first 2 Nintendo consoles do. What gets interesting is what games do they put on the SNES? I would dearly love to see stuff like FF 3/6 an…
> What gets interesting is what games do they put on the SNES? ...building a list of 30 such games would take hours to trim down. Took me ten minutes. Although if I knew it weren't super unlikely, I would sneak Uniracers and EVO: Search for Eden onto this list. Also, yes I know there are a ton more great games for SNES. It was an awesome system. But these seem like good candidates. * Chrono Trigger * Donkey Kong Coun…
> The controller ports aren’t as satisfyingly analog-feeling as the old ones, but that’s really not a big deal. It's slightly ironic that the author says this, since there is absolutely nothing analog about NES controllers -- they're nothing more than a shift register internally. By contrast, modern controllers do in fact have analog input mechanisms (although they are of course communicated with digitally). It seems…
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But in gaming culture and all of the references you will see in this thread the phrase originated from PC Gamer as they used those words for their gaming tips.
Try again: Gamepro Magazine[0]. The "Protip" was their intellectual property. 0. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/protip
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The article is literally about them making a console with these games right now.
After 25 years of them not being available, and nobody saw this coming. Edit: downvotes aplenty, perhaps someone could tell me how I could play two player Double Dragon 2 legally until this device came out?
But more generally, the person who started this thread appeared to be suggesting emulation as an alternative to this device. So in context, your comment reads as meaning, "Even though this device is out now, it's still OK to download the games illegally rather than pay for them because there wasn't a legal avenue to get the games before this device came out," which doesn't make very much sense unless you're just looking to punish Nintendo or something.