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"Kiddies"

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

Where did you get that games list? I never knew half of those games were coming out on the GC. Especially not Extreme G3 I thought that was Ps2 only. Mind you it seems like all of the Acclaim games coming out are for the Ps2.

Sniper wrote:
> Forget about it being childish and have fun.

oh my god...
im agreeing with something that Sniper said...

*head explodes and regrows... again*

Err... it's Monkey Ball, not Monkey Balls.

*fits of giggling in background*

Nevertheless they could have done without making it a small purple cube. It looks like a child's building block.

Purple!

Forget about it being childish and have fun.

I agree with you Dringo. A lot of people have said that all Nintendo brings out are Consoles for kids...but they ARE wrong.

It stated out like all small consoles based around kids with a couple for the OLDER generation. Then as things progressed more adults and older kids got interested and more gmaes were released for the older generation.

I dont know why but Nintendo brought out the same amount of older games around the same time as the release of the PSX to kepp up wi sales but the Nintendo was already recognised with Mario&Luigi, Link etc.

and now recently with Pikachu and pokemon.

But because of this I think that people have said that the GC will have mostly kids games unlike the PS2 (biased & stupid) and wont be worth the buy. But they are wrong because I know like a lot of people on this site that the GC will be huge and will no longer have the MORE childish look and more adult games will be brought out on launch like Metroid Prime along with some kids games to keep the younger generation happy.

Along with the N64 this happened too. Everyone went for the PSX although the lack of power, memory and graphics compared to the N64, went for the delicate, grey, chunky PSX, and having to dish out 7-10 quid every 2 months so they coukd use cheat cartridges and save their games.


Let me repeat NINTENDO do NOT MAKE KIDDY consoles!

I think what Microsoft fail to realise that a huge majority of gamers are kids. If they aim their console soley towards adults they're just plain stupid.
I think J Allard is a bit of a kid himself, he's immature and arrogant and should not be involved with the X-box project. The same goes with Bill gates.

Secondly, what I would regard as Kiddie games are games which will appeal mainly to the 10-16 age bracket. Adult games appeal to the 16+ age bracket, some adults prefer kiddie games and a lot of kids prefer adult games. Look at PD, an adult game by anyone's standard, 18 certificate, lots of 10-16 year olds loved it, get my point??

Can I just point out one thing here, half of the kiddie games on the playstation were disney games, but when it comes to the Gamecube's kiddie games disney just gets a 13X, I think if you did this the PS2, for a console being 5 years old, would have had very few kiddie games until recently!!

kiddie games = bright colours
bright colours = headache
headache = sledgehammer meets console
sledgehammer meets console = grounded for a month

i dont like kiddie games