4 May
2010
4 May
'10
2:34 p.m.
On May 4, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Teo Zenios wrote:
There is a difference between classic games like say pacman that
people still like to play today, and gimmicks like motion controls
(Wii controller) that get old after a period of time.
I'm not sure it's fair to call a new controller technology a
"gimmick". If it is, then so are wireless controllers, and anything
other than a digital Atari-style up-down-left-right joystick.
Yeah, but the Wii is essentially a fad.
What video game isn't?
If people still use the Wii in 10 years it will be
because of the
games being fun, not because of the controller.
Of course. But that controller enables the creation of a whole
slew of new types of games. I've played a few of them myself (on
friends' systems, I don't have any video games here) and I recognize
that they're a whole new class of stuff.
I still fire up my Playstation 1 even with the dated
graphics
because the games are fun, same with my C64. How many people bother
with the 3DO these days after the CDROM gimmick got old?
WTF is a 3DO?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL