4 May
2010
4 May
'10
2:49 p.m.
The 3DO is the most expensive (and crummy) home console ever. :)
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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, May 4, 2010 4:34:40 PM
Subject: Re: Greatest videogame device (was Re: An option - Re: thebeginningof the end for
floppies)
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
--Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL