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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 accountyaccount »

bitJericho wrote: post #215
accountyaccount wrote: post #210

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It seems a little backwards though right? Imagine if they offered a Netflix-style service (or akin to PlayStation Plus). They could grant access to their back catalog for something like $10/mo, and roll out segments of the back catalog over time to promote it. Then use nostalgia-based franchise reboots and new IP (lol, but occasionally something like Splatoon catches on) to push new console sales and then slowly phas…

Will that work for the next 30 years? We know the nintendo model has worked over the last 30.

As long as they keep making games they'll always have a back catalog to sell.

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Post by rhaps0dy »

apapli wrote: post #92
gmac wrote: post #80

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I often wonder if this kind of extreme parenting is more or less likely to result in the negative consequences the parents are trying to avoid. One could hypothesize that, having never learned to enjoy a pleasure in moderation, a person might be more vulnerable to going off the rails with it later on. Anecdotally, the friends I have that are most prone to binging on sugary things are the ones who were never allowed s…

Maybe, but having a 4 year old I'm happy to be called a helicopter parent with regards to casino type content. When he is older, yes I'll need to pull back a bit :)

Would it work to explain to him why casinos are bad?

"Games that are like this (point to app), like casinos, have "random" endings. "Random" means that sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose, and if you were to play many many times, and count the number of times you win and the number of times you lose, they would stay at similar levels. For example, you win two times for every one time you lose. But, here's the trick: these games are made so that they trick people, even very smart people, into thinking they win more often than they lose, but they actually don't! These games take over your brain and make you think things that are not true. And if you let them do that, you will lose more often than you win, so overall you will lose and that is bad. So it is best to stay away."

Your kid will also learn about probability!

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Post by emodendroket »

scarface74 wrote: post #216
emodendroket wrote: post #184

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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).

The few games I still like to play from my Atari 5200 days are Missile Command, Gyruss, Frogger, and Pac Man. All of them have been ported/updated but they are still fun in their original incarnation under emulation. From my Sega Genesis days: Streets of Rage, all of the Sonic games, and the Mortal Kombat series are still pretty fun.

I'm not saying that there were no good old games. What I'm saying is they benefit from the same effect as old movies and books, where the best remembered and preserved titles are good ones and the crap is mostly forgotten about, leading to an unrealistic perspective on how relatively good or bad the medium writ large used to be. For every Super Mario Brothers 3 there's a Mystery of Atlantis.

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Post by phjesusthatguy3 »

portal_narlish wrote: post #217
phjesusthatguy3 wrote: post #202

I'm holding out for Dreamcast games, since it's one of the few Sega systems I didn't own (and at one point I did own the Master System, Genesis, Sega CD, Game Gear, Nomad, Saturn) and there are games for the DC I would really like to play. Too bad Sega can't/won't get their third-party licensees to release stuff through this program.

Crazy Taxi is already out and it's surprisingly good.

Cool! I just went and looked at WP's list of Dreamcast games[0] and honestly, besides Ecco, Seaman and Shenmue there's nothing from Sega I want to play. I'm hoping they do as good a job at bringing third-parties along for the ride as the JP PSN did for PS1 games.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dreamcast_games

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Post by vanadium »

cmiles74 wrote: post #173
intoverflow2 wrote: post #118

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Another alternative is buy him a Nintendo handheld instead of an iPad. No ads, no dodgy content, quality games.

My daughter is six and super-happy with the Nintendo DS. I have a 3DS that she also plays on sometimes. When she was 4, we bought one of those child-hardened Kindles and enrolled her in Amazon Freetime; she loved it.

Exactly the same progression with my five year-old. He still uses his hardened Kindle with Freetime, but for most gaming, really likes his DS I restored from a broken state on the cheap.

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Post by sonnyz »

apapli wrote: post #29

Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…

Some years back my wife and I decided to write a series of apps for toddlers that had zero ads, and absolutely no annoying sounds or music. We wanted to make something your kid could play quietly, without any help. The iPhone/iPad app version has been down for a while since we didn't profit enough off of it to continue paying the $100 annual apple developer fee. The Amazon version is still up if you want to see what we had in mind. It's called "Quiet Toddler Games for Tablets" when you search under Apps. I still like the concept, it's too bad that it didn't really pick up.

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Post by agentgt »

kstenerud wrote: post #196
zanny wrote: post #192

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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 el…

I have to agree heavily and with your previous parent comment. Bad media, content, entertainment, recreational activities does not produce bad children.

I'm not completely certain but I'm fairly positive having your child interact with the bad people or hanging around the wrong types of friends (etc) far trumps any "bad forms of media".

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Post by [deleted] »

Mahn wrote: post #204
apapli wrote: post #29

Having a 4 year old son I am the first person to put my hand up and say I absolutely HATE ads and general in-app purchases for games that he likes to play on my iPhone. In some cases the way these are implemented it is almost akin to being in a casino which is not a skill I really want my son picking up (watch this ad to see what prize you can WIN etc). I welcome Sega's announcement and will be delighted to hand over…

Excuse me if I sound intolerant but, do kids really need to play mobile games? I don't understand why most parents are happy to hand over an iPhone to their kid, then complain that their games are constantly trying to syphon money. Just find something else to keep them distracted then, get a second hand gameboy for example.

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Post by odbol_ »

gambiting wrote: post #60
asadlionpk wrote: post #57

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This hack works. I wish there was way to disable internet for some apps. I am sure that's possible on android.

Not without rooting it isn't. I don't think even Android 7.0 has an option to disable internet access on per-app basis - you can disable most permissions, but accessing the internet does not require a special permission(there used to be an INTERNET permission but it has been removed by Google)

Apps still need to add the INTERNET permission to work. It's just now it's one of those that are automatically granted without action from the user. I suppose there could be some hack to disable it for certain apps though.
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