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> My mum won our N64 in a toilet paper competition, What?
His mother won his family's N64 in a promotional prize draw by sending off coupons cut out of toiler paper packaging.
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My mum won our N64 in a toilet paper competition, which was great because we wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise. My brother and I spent so much time together playing on it and I don't think I've ever enjoyed games quite as much as I did at that time.
What kind of toilet paper competition?
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Don't you feel a little sad when you vaguely remember those days? I'm only 26 but my memories about those "golden days" are becoming harder and harder to find. I got an N64 at the age of 10 when my brother and I got "good grades for an entire year" in primary school. It was my first console (and we didn't have a computer). I started claiming I wanted to make videogames around the age of 7, so it was almost like a def…
> Don't you feel a little sad when you vaguely remember those days? I'm only 26 but my memories about those "golden days" are becoming harder and harder to find. Creating those kinds of moments for your kids is even better than experiencing them as a kid yourself (for me, anyway).
That's something I'm going to think about when I have kids; how to preserve their earliest happy memories such that they will feel like they can revisit them as an adult to take solace.
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Well for example the shelve management of the cartride game systems. If you would want to produce a game for the SNES, to actually distribute it you would have to put it on a cartridge and sell it. But the design and specifications of these cartridges was protected by Nintendo, so the only way to distribute a game was to ask Nintendo for cartridges. Because Nintendo would only allow quality games on its shelves, it w…
I disagree. The quality control system of the major video game console manufacturers (not only Nintendo is doing this) is what keeps the amount of bugs and major game design flaws they contain at the release time in control (i.e. low) until today. It is the reason for that I still rather buy a just-released console title than a just-released PC game. Everybody who is watching the PC game industry will have come acros…
The Famicom did have some amount of Atari 2600-goldrush-esque crappy games (some licensed, some not), but it didn't stop the console from being a huge success. This suggests to me that Nintendo's reasoning was only part "Americans will flood the market with shitty games again if we don't do something about it," with pure monopolistic greed being the other part.
With all due respect to Hiroshi Yamauchi, I don't think their business practices during this era should be considered at all admirable, and I don't think it's right to credit their monopolistic practices for "saving the medium."
RIP. You touched many lives, many childhoods were brightened by your game-and-watches, your chimneys inhabited by man-eating plants, your moustached italian plumber heroes. I hope to inspire 1/1,000,000 as many people. edit: here are some Nintendo Game and Watch devices on eBay for all you young runts. http://www.ebay.com/sch/Vintage-Pre1990-/155342/i.html?_from...
It was always having the Japanese in the periphery of my pop culture, contributing from a parallel world. They very obviously were (are) building on top of different tradition of art and storytelling. Where I grew up a dubbed 70s manga cartoon (also about a little Italian) was one of only a handful of kids shows we got on our single TV channel.