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What prompted me to make this thread was part of Microsofts £500m advertising fund being spent on some bloke bleating a load of crap about other consoles, making out X-box is the one & only saviour.
His only two words used when commenting on the Gamecube were: "Kiddy" & "Console"…
I am sick to death of people saying that the Gamecube will be for kids & kids alone. I would like to know when they found out it was only going to be for kids. Was there a press release from Nintendo stating this? What research has been done? Have they seen the game list? Eyed up any previews?
Sure, there will be some games with kiddy themes. But every console has games with kiddy themes. Take, for example, one of the most popular consoles in gaming history, The Playstation:
Croc & it's sequels, Spyro & it's sequels, DD Quack Attack, Hercules, Aladdin, Casper, Toy Story, The Lion King, Little Mermaid, Digimon, Chicken Run, Crash Bandicoot & it's sequels…
To name but a few. Just because there are kiddy games available for a console it doesn't mean there will only be kiddy games on that console.
Look at the potential GC line-up in the first 6 months/year:
Theme Park, Survivor, Creatures, RoboCop, Dragons Lair 3d, Pikmin, Halo, Duke Nukem, Monkey Balls, F1, Ferrari 360 Challenge, Rush Club, Virtual Velocity Racing, Racer dev. by Saffire, Hot Wheels, Jeremy McGrath Supercross, Thunder Rally, F Zero Cube???, Animal Forest, Rebirth, Luigi's Mansion, Zelda, Pokemon game, Mario Game, Mario Kart, 13xDisney Games (inc mickey mouse adventures), PD2, DK Cube, Starfox Adventures (was dinosaur planet), Donkey Kong Racing, Kameo, Conkeys other bad fur day, Grabbed by the ghoulies, Super Smash Bros. Melee, WaveRace: BlueStorm, Metroid?, excite bike cube?, NBA Court Side, 1080 Cube?, Too Human, Eternal Darkness, Thornado, StarWars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron 2, PSOv2, Sonic Adventure, Planet Harrier, Batman, VIP, Virtual Velocity, NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, MK5, Turok??, All Star Baseball, Crazy Taxi, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX2, Extreme g3, NFL 2002, Madden NFL 2002, SSX: SE, FIFA, Harry Potter, James Bond, Mission impossible 2, Tony Hawks 3, Stuart little, Jackie chan adventures, Spider-man Movie, RE4, RE0, Crash bandicoot, Engalus, Silent space, X-Isle: Dinosaur Island, Tetris, WWF, Die Hard: Next Generation, E.T., Galleon, Picasso, Stunt driver, Title defense boxing, Tiny Toon adventures & some Army Men Games…
My belief is that 4% of the above games would be enjoyed by the younger market only, 13% of the games would appeal to the older market only, leaving the remaining 83% playable & enjoyable to all ages (except for the Army Men games ). It sometimes amazes me to find how pig ignorant some people can be. How did they decide from this that the GC was going to be a kiddy console? It won't exactly be an adult only console, but no-one can boast to owning one of those.
More importantly how come gore and blood was adult, games like Resident Evil i laugh at the same way i laughed at Evil Dead when iw as younger. These are more like Teenage games and Adults are grown up to find games like Luigi enjoyable and isn't annoyed because a bloke has his head blown off!
Dringo
His only two words used when commenting on the Gamecube were: "Kiddy" & "Console"…
I am sick to death of people saying that the Gamecube will be for kids & kids alone. I would like to know when they found out it was only going to be for kids. Was there a press release from Nintendo stating this? What research has been done? Have they seen the game list? Eyed up any previews?
Sure, there will be some games with kiddy themes. But every console has games with kiddy themes. Take, for example, one of the most popular consoles in gaming history, The Playstation:
Croc & it's sequels, Spyro & it's sequels, DD Quack Attack, Hercules, Aladdin, Casper, Toy Story, The Lion King, Little Mermaid, Digimon, Chicken Run, Crash Bandicoot & it's sequels…
To name but a few. Just because there are kiddy games available for a console it doesn't mean there will only be kiddy games on that console.
Look at the potential GC line-up in the first 6 months/year:
Theme Park, Survivor, Creatures, RoboCop, Dragons Lair 3d, Pikmin, Halo, Duke Nukem, Monkey Balls, F1, Ferrari 360 Challenge, Rush Club, Virtual Velocity Racing, Racer dev. by Saffire, Hot Wheels, Jeremy McGrath Supercross, Thunder Rally, F Zero Cube???, Animal Forest, Rebirth, Luigi's Mansion, Zelda, Pokemon game, Mario Game, Mario Kart, 13xDisney Games (inc mickey mouse adventures), PD2, DK Cube, Starfox Adventures (was dinosaur planet), Donkey Kong Racing, Kameo, Conkeys other bad fur day, Grabbed by the ghoulies, Super Smash Bros. Melee, WaveRace: BlueStorm, Metroid?, excite bike cube?, NBA Court Side, 1080 Cube?, Too Human, Eternal Darkness, Thornado, StarWars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron 2, PSOv2, Sonic Adventure, Planet Harrier, Batman, VIP, Virtual Velocity, NFL Blitz, NHL Hitz, MK5, Turok??, All Star Baseball, Crazy Taxi, Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX2, Extreme g3, NFL 2002, Madden NFL 2002, SSX: SE, FIFA, Harry Potter, James Bond, Mission impossible 2, Tony Hawks 3, Stuart little, Jackie chan adventures, Spider-man Movie, RE4, RE0, Crash bandicoot, Engalus, Silent space, X-Isle: Dinosaur Island, Tetris, WWF, Die Hard: Next Generation, E.T., Galleon, Picasso, Stunt driver, Title defense boxing, Tiny Toon adventures & some Army Men Games…
My belief is that 4% of the above games would be enjoyed by the younger market only, 13% of the games would appeal to the older market only, leaving the remaining 83% playable & enjoyable to all ages (except for the Army Men games ). It sometimes amazes me to find how pig ignorant some people can be. How did they decide from this that the GC was going to be a kiddy console? It won't exactly be an adult only console, but no-one can boast to owning one of those.
More importantly how come gore and blood was adult, games like Resident Evil i laugh at the same way i laughed at Evil Dead when iw as younger. These are more like Teenage games and Adults are grown up to find games like Luigi enjoyable and isn't annoyed because a bloke has his head blown off!
Dringo
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It is just the perception the public have from a purple console. Also the masses are asses. They think that just because Mario is sort of cartoonish and not life like that it is a kids game. Admittedly games consoles are aimed more at young people but not so much kids as teenagers and twenty year olds. Just because a game like is aimed at kids or at least looks like that does not mean that it is a bad game, take Smash Brothers as an example. It had all of Nintendo's childish characters but was an excellent beat em up. The public should make up their minds on the gamesplay not on the colours or look.
Biggles
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I'm here no wait no i'm not.
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Indeed Nintendo are no more childish as childish games are a problem!
Indeed Nintendo are no more childisha s childish games are a problem!
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