Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

Post by pbj1968 » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 11:55 PM UTC

conradev wrote: post #10

resters wrote: post #6

Making video games fun does not require anywhere near as much hardware as we typically use in modern systems. I look forward to an eventual return to fun video games.

"Yokoi said 'The Nintendo way of adapting technology is not to look for the state of the art but to utilize mature technology that can be mass-produced cheaply.' He articulated his philosophy of 'Lateral Thinking of Withered Technology' (枯れた技術の水平思考, Kareta Gijutsu no Suihei Shikō) (also translated as 'Lateral Thinking with Seasoned Technology'), in the book Yokoi Gunpei Game House." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunp…

Post by nilamo » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 11:58 PM UTC

lapetitejort wrote: post #93

einr wrote: post #68

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The Game Gear didn't come out until one and a half year later. It's easy to see how it wasn't even remotely practical to release a color handheld system in 1989, and it's easy to argue that it wasn't practical in 1990 either, but Sega did it anyway. So when the Game Boy came out it was easily the most powerful handheld system on the market (admittedly by virtue of being essentially the only one worth mentioning)

The Atari Lynx came out a few months after the Game Boy with a backlit color screen

Post by PhasmaFelis » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 12:14 AM UTC

rustcleaner wrote: post #79

numpad0 wrote: post #70

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Doesn't matter. Reselling a modified brand product can count as counterfeiting. Legal conditional checks don't always coincide with human instinctive one, law is code too after all.

This is why juries must be instructed on nullification. It's The People's protection against money's use of criminal lawfare.

Post by barbecue_sauce » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 12:20 AM UTC

tadbit wrote: post #72

mejutoco wrote: post #57

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I remember kids with the game gear. Hardly ever saw them playing because of the batteries. For a portable console I think it was a choice on battery life.

The game gear was extremely lousy to use. Too small of a screen, ate through batteries incredibly quickly, the original, external battery pack (not included) was poorly made and didn't help that much either. And the game selection early on was pretty lousy too. Sonic was only fun for a while. People are doing amazing things with game gear hardware as of late, though. All of that addressed spectacularly.

Post by barbecue_sauce » Tue, Jul 23, 2024, 12:27 AM UTC

n_plus_1_acc wrote: post #77

Eji1700 wrote: post #54

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The majority of my indie titles run on a potato.

Many indie games use Unity and have terrible performance. Source: I have a potato (by which i mean i use the integrated graphics of an i7-56xx) It can run many games well, so it depends how much developers value performance.