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god, fucking tell me about it
consoles made the same fucking mistake
cartridge to CD/DVD was a step in the wrong direction
just make cartridges with larger capacities!
this isn't complicated
because... for some reason the capacity of a cartridge would never increase. we have things like micro SD cards that can fit 4 fucking gigs...
for the manufacturers I mean
so what, tack on a couple bucks to my price
it's an investment
they'll last for 30 years like these damn atari 2600 carts i've got lying around
it's not a couple extra dollars
snes and n64 empty carts cost the manufacturers about $30 a pop, guess how much blank CDs are
well if they are saving all that money by using a cheaper media what in the blue blazes am i paying $60 a game for?
I got an MP3 player for Christmas in like 1999. It was some old RCA piece of shit, it was all bulky with a screen the size of a postage stamp. It had no internal memory, and used compact flash cards. Between a few cards, I think I had like 256 MB of storage.
It was the shit.
hookers and blow, of course.
i was born in 1991
It didn't take hundreds of staff in an office 4 years and millions of dollars to create River Raid. Nowadays games are big productions. If you like you can download cheap or free games from the internet that still have 2D graphics and one level if you like. That'll be pretty damn cheap.
tell that to bomberman 64!
Your batting 100% so far then. That console was the shit.
Haha, I remember this one rich older kid who had a special little case for his MP3 memory cards. He had about a dozen, and we all thought he was the coolest thing.
It was the coolest thing.
I bet he got laid so much.
Tell me about it. I bought a flash drive in 2003. It cost me $45 and it was on sale. Guess how much storage capacity it had.
128 megs!
I'll put that in perspective.
In 2006 I recieved another flash drive that was also 128mb for free as a promotional item from HP's sales team because I was looking into multi-function printers for the office I worked in. It was the same as giving someone a pen or a coffee mug or a pad of post-it notes with your logo on them.
I can buy a 1gb (that's 1000mb) flash drive at Blockbuster Video now for $20. It's a name brand and everything. You can probably buy these things at the gas station now too.
4gb
$20.
Mistake!
first thing i installed was Doom 1 & 2
these will be the games i will play until the day i die
at the time, my school had a tiny tiny little computer lab with about 12 computers in it
the i.t. guy was a friend of a guy who was a friend of my dad
with a few other guys, we had sweet lan parties
quake 2 with some crow t robot and something else add-on all on a zip disc
It was the shit, man. Even more portable than a discman!
That shit is straight out science fiction.
Damned if I can remember what the game was though
i still can't figure out what the hell i would do with an 8 gig card
the capacity on those things is mind-blowing though
it feels almost wasteful
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