I thought this was a joke at first… It looks like an iPod or a remote for the new Front Row feature on the iMac. I did some research and the following is an actual representation of the remotes to be sold with the Nintendo Revolution…
It looks like ergonomics took a hike.
IGN has written a great article on the benefits of waiting for your next Console. The XBox 360 has certainly taken the market by storm this holiday season. But seasoned gamers should be aware… the PS3 will simply kick ass.
Yes, Xbox has learned from the past–release it first and you will eat up a large part of the market share early on. In 1994 Sony did this with the PS1 and in 1985 it was Nintendo with the NES.
Here are the top reasons to hold out that I pulled out of the article:
The Blu-ray Player
Stronger Japanese Developer Support
Full Backwards Compatibility
Seven-Player Wireless Support
Dual-Screen and 1080p Support
Hefty Expandability / Connectivity Options
Personally, I can wait another year. I’ve got plenty of games to play right now.
So last week when a couple of went to Target I noticed something new for the X-box only: Tecmo Classic Arcade*. I looked and it is only available on that platform–which frankly sucks.
There have only been two games I’d ever want to play on the Xbox that you cannot get anywhere else–Abe’s Oddworld 4 (or whatever it was called) and this one.
This Tecmo gem (for those of you who have conceded to the will of Microsoft–yet again) has the following games:
Tecmo Bowl
Rygar
Starforce
Solomon’s Key
Bomb Jack
Tecmo Cup
Pinball Action
Pleiads
Senjyo
Swimmer
and Strato Fighter
It does NOT contain the one game I like best from the Tecmo series: Super Tecmo Bowl. I have that for my NES and still play it regularly. The thing is–all of the above games are the real arcade versions–NOT the NES versions so there is benefit to this unusual collection.
*Note that the prices on the EB Games website are swapped. The new price is actually lower than the used price [today]. A little mistake that could save you about $10.
Earlier this year we caught wind of the new Midway Arcade Cabinet to be featured and sold in Target Stores Nationwide. The unit is pictured on their website for pre-order still at $499. However, in stores it’s listed at only $449. I’m not sure which is accurate but for $50 less get it at the store! Anyway, today at lunch…
First Glance
The machine looks very nice. It is a nice black lacquer finish colorfully plastered with the logos from the 12 Midway games that are contained within. It has a small 14″ monitor at the center with a plexiglass window protecting it. The cabinet is cabaret sized. In ‘video game speak’ it is smaller than the standard upright. Often ‘cabaret’ versions of arcade games were used when bars or arcades could not fit the full sized units inside–perfect for the average home! The games?…
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Early this year I purchased Doom 3 at a discounted rate from Microcenter. We were having a LAN party and I wanted to be able to play the game if we did a LAN version. I installed the game, made sure I had all of the updates installed and never once launched the game. And now the worst part. It’s been over 6 months and I STILL haven’t. I was more interested in FarCry and Tron 2.0 at the time. Now BF2 and Star Wars Battlefront II are occupying my time and I STILL haven’t launched it.
Anyway, there is an interesting article at Yahoo news by Joel Durham Jr. in which he writes about the ‘Gamer mentality’. He talks about our need to build our own machines (although some of us have just gone to Dell) and the trends of tweaking machines to gain performance over another gamer’s machine. We’ve gone from frame rates to graphical smoothness.
I’m disappointed in his lack to mention BF2 or SW:BFII. They are both beautiful games.
I remember tweaking my Cyrix 133 with my Diamond Viper 330 and 128MB of memory so that I could get 32 FPS out of my Quake II game. I also remember that chip rebooting my machine all the time. But even when I went to a Pentium 160Mhz and overclocked my graphics cards — I still only averaged in the 40 range. Increasing Processor speeds on both the main platform and graphics cards changed all of that. The TNT2 Ultra changed that for me. I ran that card for at least 3 years until Unreal Tournament 2003 made it impossible for me to keep up. Now I have a P4 3.2 GHz Machine with a NVidia 6800GT. BF2 runs without pause with everything set to High. In the article he is right about one thing… I could not care less about my framerate anymore. I just want the games to look pretty. But once in awhile I still get the urge to run “Timedemo 1 map=demo1.dm2” and see what happens.
