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"Nintendo "like retirement home""

BBC report on E3 Nintendo performance

"Nintendo's conference was like a retirement home for classic game developers as Toru Iwatani, the brains behind Pac-Man, played on-stage against Mario wunderkind, Shigeru Miyamoto, who is currently working on an all-new Pac-Man title.

Refreshingly self-critical, the assembled masses were told of the mistakes the big N made with marketing the GameCube, and the difficulty the traditionally family-orientated company was having in appealing to modern, gore-obsessed players.

But their president, Satoru Iwata, in a nod to the Grand Theft Auto series, assured Nintendo-philes: "You won't see Mario shoot a hooker".

And while we were assured the GameCube had a rosy future, its successor is already officially in development."

*chuckles*

I prefer Black & White.

Except that Lylat Wars isn't a beat'em up.
Beat 'em ups are simple, button mashing exercises in immediate gameplay, usually with mates.

Lylat Wars was a one player game that was supposed...actually no, I dont need to defend that game or explain why it sucked balls.
It did.

If you dont think it did, that means you are a hommo

Every beat 'em up game ever would be like that.

Yes, it was easy. Still a good game.
But if you rated games like that, then I could say I hate Namco, after staring at the end credits of Soul Calibur 10 minutes after starting.

True.

But Lylat Wars still remains in my memory, years after staring incredulously at the finishing credits 43 minutes after starting my first game.

And that's where my hatred of Nintendo was born

Goatboy wrote:
> No I did ask because I fancied seeing if I could remember any of my
> school work.
> But I couldn't.

Fair enough


> However, should we be invaded by Romans, you have my full support and
> backing as "the better man".

I won't remember any of this in four weeks time, so then we will be 'equal'.
Short term memory is a wonderful thing.

131 replies.

Man, this forum is easier to play than Lylat Wars

Not really. I can honestly say I've never purposely come to the forums looking for news. And I think I'm within my rights being defensive when someone says "you get your news from reading the forums" when we don't. I'm not saying it's never posted on here, I'm saying I've never taken it. Because I can take from official sources.

And this is typical of the attitude of this particular forum, I post a few sensible posts suggesting that maybe Nintendo haven't done things according to plan, and the personal insults start flying.

Still, really must go do some work. Fun playing with you.

No I did ask because I fancied seeing if I could remember any of my school work.
But I couldn't.

However, should we be invaded by Romans, you have my full support and backing as "the better man".

You did ask. Or at least that was my interpretation.
It was just banter, I wasn't actually challenging you or expecting you to want to translate a two and a half thousand year old poem.