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Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by chongli »

accountyaccount wrote: post #175
bitJericho wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think nintendo has it right. I'd rather pay for the games and not be the product.

Except that Nintendo doesn't offer the vast majority of their back catalog in any shape or form.

Nintendo is clearly motivated by something other than profit. They release the NES Classic Mini, a license to print money if there ever was one, and it's impossible to buy one without hammering Walmart's private APIs with a script. Then, after a little over one season, they cancel the product entirely.

Perhaps Nintendo feeds on nostalgia brainwaves or something.

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Post by zanny »

kstenerud wrote: post #179
throwaway7645 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is important for parents to note. Teach your child about computing on a RaspPi where they'll actually learn real computing and not a walled device with a download button. I know they're convenient at a restaurant...etc, but they rigidly enforce instant gratification without much learning involved. I guess though it isn't super different than a Nintendo if taken with moderation, but I'd argue most of the games ar…

Welcome to parenthood. You even sound like the parents of the 80s and 90s now. Before that it was too much TV. Before that it was too much radio. In Victorian times it was reading too many books. Kids of today will always be kids of today, doing the things that they do instead of the things that you nostalgically remember doing. Even Socrates noted that.

All of those are examples of the same fundamental, where children can become monofocused on one domain and suffer long term for lack of broad exposure to experiences.

They are also easy traps - from the 18th century to the 21st century, if your kid is wrapped up in books or a phone you don't have to worry about who they are interacting with, what they are doing outside, if they are in danger or putting others in danger - they stay home and are low maintenance.

Problem is, low maintenance doesn't produce robust human beings.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

trimbo wrote: post #193

I look forward to Herzog Zwei being available!

SEGA owns the rights [1], so it's a possibility. They haven't released it in any recent Genesis game collections I know about, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technosoft#Closure

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by kstenerud »

zanny wrote: post #192
kstenerud wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to parenthood. You even sound like the parents of the 80s and 90s now. Before that it was too much TV. Before that it was too much radio. In Victorian times it was reading too many books. Kids of today will always be kids of today, doing the things that they do instead of the things that you nostalgically remember doing. Even Socrates noted that.

All of those are examples of the same fundamental, where children can become monofocused on one domain and suffer long term for lack of broad exposure to experiences. They are also easy traps - from the 18th century to the 21st century, if your kid is wrapped up in books or a phone you don't have to worry about who they are interacting with, what they are doing outside, if they are in danger or putting others in dang…

People keep saying that (shortly after becoming parents), and yet the kids keep turning out alright.

I grew up like that and boy did it ruin my life! Living on a farm 10 miles from the nearest road, playing concerts, traveling, and working remotely to finance it all. It's a shame I was so wrapped up in my books and computers and video games as a kid because I could have led a normal life in a cubicle like everyone else.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by abelhabel »

emodendroket wrote: post #184
throwaway7645 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is important for parents to note. Teach your child about computing on a RaspPi where they'll actually learn real computing and not a walled device with a download button. I know they're convenient at a restaurant...etc, but they rigidly enforce instant gratification without much learning involved. I guess though it isn't super different than a Nintendo if taken with moderation, but I'd argue most of the games ar…

We're in a thread talking about old consoles. It's easy to forget that the majority of games on any console were awful shovelware (I'm sure many of us have the experience of booting up an old, fondly remembered game only to slowly realize it's crap).

This has actually never happened to me. I replay the games I played as a kid about every two years and they are always great. The game I reply the most are Kid Chameleon for Sega 16bit and Wonderboy in Dragon's trap for Sega 8-bit.

I might look into this but I cannot stand ads and I'm inapt at using mobile phones, so probably not.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by accountyaccount »

chongli wrote: post #191
accountyaccount wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that Nintendo doesn't offer the vast majority of their back catalog in any shape or form.

Nintendo is clearly motivated by something other than profit. They release the NES Classic Mini, a license to print money if there ever was one, and it's impossible to buy one without hammering Walmart's private APIs with a script. Then, after a little over one season, they cancel the product entirely. Perhaps Nintendo feeds on nostalgia brainwaves or something.

Rumor is that the NES Mini was just a way to burn through left over hardware stock.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by frandroid »

bitJericho wrote: post #169
monster2control wrote: post #160

I think this is awesome, and I wish Nintendo would do it too, but I was hoping for an Emulator style application, a single app, where new games can be added as they come out. Being separate apps, it's fine, but it's going to make it a PITA when you have over 100 games you'd love to play. Thank god for iOS searching.

I think nintendo has it right. I'd rather pay for the games and not be the product.

... you can actually buy your way out of the ads.

Re: Sega releasing every console game for free with ads on mobile

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Post by 7Z7 »

teacup50 wrote: post #182
kstenerud wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to parenthood. You even sound like the parents of the 80s and 90s now. Before that it was too much TV. Before that it was too much radio. In Victorian times it was reading too many books. Kids of today will always be kids of today, doing the things that they do instead of the things that you nostalgically remember doing. Even Socrates noted that.

Too much TV was and is a real problem. I wasn't around for "too much radio". Sounds suspect. There wasn't that much programming available. Too many books? Pfft.

“the girl who sits for hours poring over a novel to the damage of her eyes, her brain, and her general nervous system, is guilty of a lesser fault of the nature of suicide.”

"[novel reading is] one of the most pernicious habits to which a young lady can be devoted. When the habit is once thoroughly fixed, it becomes as inveterate as the use of liquor or opium.”

"I have seen two poor disconsolate parents drop into premature graves, miserable victims to their daughters' dishonour, and the peace of several relative families wounded, never to be healed again in this world. 'And was novel-reading the cause of this? inquires some gentle fair one... I answer yes!"

"Girls are not apt to understand the evils of novel-reading, and may think it is only because mothers have outlived their days of romance that they object to their daughters enjoying such sentimental reading; but the wise mother understands the effects of sensational reading upon the physical organization, and wishes to protect her daughter from the evils thus produced... Romance-reading by young girls will, by this excitement of the bodily organs, tend to create their premature development, and the child becomes physically a woman months, or even years, before she should."

- various sources

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