I was at my local GameStation about a week or so before the DS launched in the UK. Some big, bald mental patient walks in and buys a game, and while they're ringing it up this little conversation happens:
Idiot: Okay. So, Nintendo have the DS. PlayStation have the PSP. Microsoft are comin' out wiv this fing called the Gizmondo. Store Guy: Er... Idiot: Wot I wanna know is, d'you know when you'll be gettin' 'em in? 'Cos I hear it's gonna be more powerful than the PS3.
At this point my head is about to explode. Luckily the guys at my local GameStation are frank and to the point, and don't give a shit about whether or not they're offending customers.
Store Guy: Actually, you're wrong. The Gizmondo isn't anything to do with Microsoft. Where did you hear that? Idiot: This guy I know said... Store Guy: Yeah, stop there. "This guy" apparently doesn't know his arse from his elbow so the next time he imparts his special brand of Industry Know-How, you're probably doign him a favour by beating him over the head with a lump of wood. Idiot: Get your fuckin' Manager, mate.
Store Guy taps his name badge, which very prominently indicates that, yes, he is the Manager. Idiot grabs his purchase and receipt, then hightails it out there muttering expletives. I'm next in line.
Me: What was he on? Everyone knows the Gizmondo is Sega's next handheld brought in to claim back their once mighty Empire. :roll:
And we laugh. Fade out, end credits.
Microsoft was initially going to be providing a lot of software support for the Gizmondo. Somebody probably looked at all the games and such that said "Microsoft Games Studio" and assumed they were first-party.
What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
Kind of off topic, but, I really hated back in the SNES/Genesis days when people would refer to video games as "Game Tapes". Whenever someone said that I wanted to choke them to death.
Game tapes? What the hell was that supposed to describe? Cartridges?
Yes. And I still hear that term... *shiver*
I've never heard anyone say it. If I do I might cry a little.
I can say that back in the Snes/Genesis era the term tape was used way more frequently than cartridge here in Brazil, well the translation of the terms anyway. And I´m sad to say that I used it too, people only stopped using it because games started coming on CDs. I had actually forgotten the term until a couple of months ago my sister who hadn´t played a game that doesn´t come with windows since we had a NES started bugging me for the Mario "tape" to play on my DS. Let´s just say that after ignoring her until she called it the right name made her learn it...
There's this guy at my work place who thought at one point that Microsoft was going to make the Halo franchise non-exclusive and port the games to PS3, so they could make more money. He thankfully found out how wrong this was rather quickly.
I find it weird that even though Nintendo has always called them game paks I always have called them cartridges as did everyone I knew when I was a kid.
Hmmmm
After I read "Game Over: The History of Nintendo, I made a concerted effort to call them "Paks."
Seriously, if you haven't read David Sheff's book "Game Over" and are at ALL interested in the history of Nintendo (especially the NES-early SNES era), you MUST get this book and read it NOW....
You guys convinced me. I just came back from the library with this book. It's really big and has no pictures.
I'm not just talking about cinematics. Many games have beautiful and fitting cinematics which are in-game and not FMV, from Twilight Princess to Chrono Trigger and probably further back. But let's put it this way. Flip on your TV right now to some random show. Now imagine playing that as a game. Clearly there will have to be some compromise and adaptation in order to make it playable, and the end result will not be able to look exactly like what you're seeing on the screen. Maybe the graphics in games might one day look like it's taken directly off an anime or live film. But when TV and games are in motion, the difference between them is the highest visual appeal versus the most intuitive or most enjoyable method of control.
Ninja Gaiden belongs in that list. I always played hard just to see the next cutscene but I never beat Jaquio.
My friend swears the Gamecube runs on mini-CDs created by Nintendo.
There's more retarded things his said, but they don't come to mind right now
"CD" equals "Disc" in common vernacular, so that's not so bad. Are they not "Discs?" Are they not, "Compact?" Just like BD movies are technically HD-DVDs. They are High Definition, and they are also Digital Video stored on Disc. DVD is trademarked to the DVD consortium, but I have no problem with calling BD in passing "a kind of High-Def DVD. HD-DVD if you will" despite there being an official "real" HD-DVD.
My friend swears the Gamecube runs on mini-CDs created by Nintendo.
There's more retarded things his said, but they don't come to mind right now
"CD" equals "Disc" in common vernacular, so that's not so bad. Are they not "Discs?" Are they not, "Compact?" Just like BD movies are technically HD-DVDs. They are High Definition, and they are also Digital Video stored on Disc. DVD is trademarked to the DVD consortium, but I have no problem with calling BD in passing "a kind of High-Def DVD. HD-DVD if you will" despite there being an official "real" HD-DVD.
Naw, he knows the difference between a CD and a DVD, he's a damn Digital Media major. I told him they were DVDs and he was like, "nah, man, they're CDs." I just nodded so he'd shut the hell up
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A lot of people think that 3in DVDs don't exist, for whatever reason. Like they can't be made or something.
My friend swears the Gamecube runs on mini-CDs created by Nintendo.
There's more retarded things his said, but they don't come to mind right now
"CD" equals "Disc" in common vernacular, so that's not so bad. Are they not "Discs?" Are they not, "Compact?" Just like BD movies are technically HD-DVDs. They are High Definition, and they are also Digital Video stored on Disc. DVD is trademarked to the DVD consortium, but I have no problem with calling BD in passing "a kind of High-Def DVD. HD-DVD if you will" despite there being an official "real" HD-DVD.
Naw, he knows the difference between a CD and a DVD, he's a damn Digital Media major. I told him they were DVDs and he was like, "nah, man, they're CDs." I just nodded so he'd shut the hell up
How the hell does he think it holds 1.4GB?! If it were a 150MB 8cm CD, it wouldn't be able to hold it's own to PSP games, much less the modern generation. It would be like the N64 media format mistake again: Nintendo's choice of format would continue to be inferior to the PSone through 2006! Insanity.
My friend swears the Gamecube runs on mini-CDs created by Nintendo.
There's more retarded things his said, but they don't come to mind right now
"CD" equals "Disc" in common vernacular, so that's not so bad. Are they not "Discs?" Are they not, "Compact?" Just like BD movies are technically HD-DVDs. They are High Definition, and they are also Digital Video stored on Disc. DVD is trademarked to the DVD consortium, but I have no problem with calling BD in passing "a kind of High-Def DVD. HD-DVD if you will" despite there being an official "real" HD-DVD.
Naw, he knows the difference between a CD and a DVD, he's a damn Digital Media major. I told him they were DVDs and he was like, "nah, man, they're CDs." I just nodded so he'd shut the hell up
How the hell does he think it holds 1.4GB?! If it were a 150MB 8cm CD, it wouldn't be able to hold it's own to PSP games, much less the modern generation. It would be like the N64 media format mistake again: Nintendo's choice of format would continue to be inferior to the PSone through 2006! Insanity.
He probably thinks it's a mini CD that magically holds only 600MBs. How he thinks that a CD-ROM drive lens can read a pitch that small, I don't know.
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It's been so long since I've posted here, I've removed my signature since most of what I had here were broken links. Shows over, you can carry on to the next post.
Kind of off topic, but, I really hated back in the SNES/Genesis days when people would refer to video games as "Game Tapes". Whenever someone said that I wanted to choke them to death.
Game tapes? What the hell was that supposed to describe? Cartridges?
Yes. And I still hear that term... *shiver*
I've never heard anyone say it. If I do I might cry a little.
I can say that back in the Snes/Genesis era the term tape was used way more frequently than cartridge here in Brazil, well the translation of the terms anyway. And I´m sad to say that I used it too, people only stopped using it because games started coming on CDs. I had actually forgotten the term until a couple of months ago my sister who hadn´t played a game that doesn´t come with windows since we had a NES started bugging me for the Mario "tape" to play on my DS. Let´s just say that after ignoring her until she called it the right name made her learn it...
Oh noes!
another brazillian! RUN AWAY!!!!
Yeah, lots of people call carts "tapes" here, because of the damned MSX cassette games. DAMN YOU MSX!
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JJ,
I don't want your civil war.
Love and squalor,
Drez.
I can say that back in the Snes/Genesis era the term tape was used way more frequently than cartridge here in Brazil, well the translation of the terms anyway. And I´m sad to say that I used it too, people only stopped using it because games started coming on CDs. I had actually forgotten the term until a couple of months ago my sister who hadn´t played a game that doesn´t come with windows since we had a NES started bugging me for the Mario "tape" to play on my DS. Let´s just say that after ignoring her until she called it the right name made her learn it...
He still hasn't lived it down.
[spoiler:01086f4f02]Actually, they did. Shh! Don't let ANYONE know I told you this. They'll be after me in moments.[/spoiler:01086f4f02]
There's more retarded things his said, but they don't come to mind right now
Naw, he knows the difference between a CD and a DVD, he's a damn Digital Media major. I told him they were DVDs and he was like, "nah, man, they're CDs." I just nodded so he'd shut the hell up
How the hell does he think it holds 1.4GB?! If it were a 150MB 8cm CD, it wouldn't be able to hold it's own to PSP games, much less the modern generation. It would be like the N64 media format mistake again: Nintendo's choice of format would continue to be inferior to the PSone through 2006! Insanity.
He probably thinks it's a mini CD that magically holds only 600MBs. How he thinks that a CD-ROM drive lens can read a pitch that small, I don't know.
Oh noes!
another brazillian! RUN AWAY!!!!
Yeah, lots of people call carts "tapes" here, because of the damned MSX cassette games. DAMN YOU MSX!