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The Greeks had a pop at it as a scapegoat for gambling, Thailand as blame for dead people in cafes, the rest of the world for the cause of violence, and me as a scapegoat for if I blow my degree.
Sling enough mud and some will stick, but what if gaming were to get so muddy it wasn’t allowed in the house?
Yep, it may not look too likely, but all it’d take is one nutter to get some political weight *cough*happenedinamerica*cough* and we could see videogames made illegal.
For a while we should be okay. Us students are already finely trained in the art of hiding our TVs from the law, and if students can do it, imagine what someone who wasn’t completely idle could achieve.
But as the Fifa series shows, gamers need new games all the time, they’re too easily bored when titles get repetetive. Or does it prove the opposite? Hmm…
Anyway, with no official retailers taking the risk of getting their hands cut off by Tony W Blair Jr, we’d all be a little stuck for new games.
So long as foreign countries weren’t joining the madness the playstation should go from strength to strength – with an intricate underground market in illegal titles already established, most gamers would hardly notice the difference. Meanwhile asylum seekers could find prosperous work making fools of British customs as they sneaked games over the border.
Bill Gates might get upset about the growth (albeit a drop in the ocean) in illegal software, but if they’re bought from some shop in the world he’d still be appeased by his cut, more problematic would be getting new hardware into the country. The weight shouldn’t be a problem, but the console wouldn’t fit through the airport’s x-ray machine.
Still, at least it explains why he’s trying to shift so many X-Boxes now, while he has the chance.
Size wouldn’t be a problem for Nintendo. If they were to sneak Japanese games into the country the packaging would be even smaller, but this faces the obvious flaw that now freeloader has been confirmed to only ever have been an internet rumour started by a 12 year old nerd, the games would be useless on all existing machines.
However, their biggest problem would be Uri Geller. Already alleged to have forcibly spooned Shigeru Miyamoto, it seems this psych...ic takes no prisoners when he gets a grudge, and when not even your thoughts are a secret to this mind-reading poke-man, Nintendo may regret their tribute to his achievements.
So when it happens gamers should be able to move underground without immediate problems, but it seems like Sony will be the only company able to survive for the long term. Still, it doesn’t mean you have to buy your PS2 now, oh no. Go get Gamecube and X-Box while you have the chance.
Blair’s minime project is almost completed, the next election draws ever closer, and the window of opportunity narrows. Don’t wait too long.
Sling enough mud and some will stick, but what if gaming were to get so muddy it wasn’t allowed in the house?
Yep, it may not look too likely, but all it’d take is one nutter to get some political weight *cough*happenedinamerica*cough* and we could see videogames made illegal.
For a while we should be okay. Us students are already finely trained in the art of hiding our TVs from the law, and if students can do it, imagine what someone who wasn’t completely idle could achieve.
But as the Fifa series shows, gamers need new games all the time, they’re too easily bored when titles get repetetive. Or does it prove the opposite? Hmm…
Anyway, with no official retailers taking the risk of getting their hands cut off by Tony W Blair Jr, we’d all be a little stuck for new games.
So long as foreign countries weren’t joining the madness the playstation should go from strength to strength – with an intricate underground market in illegal titles already established, most gamers would hardly notice the difference. Meanwhile asylum seekers could find prosperous work making fools of British customs as they sneaked games over the border.
Bill Gates might get upset about the growth (albeit a drop in the ocean) in illegal software, but if they’re bought from some shop in the world he’d still be appeased by his cut, more problematic would be getting new hardware into the country. The weight shouldn’t be a problem, but the console wouldn’t fit through the airport’s x-ray machine.
Still, at least it explains why he’s trying to shift so many X-Boxes now, while he has the chance.
Size wouldn’t be a problem for Nintendo. If they were to sneak Japanese games into the country the packaging would be even smaller, but this faces the obvious flaw that now freeloader has been confirmed to only ever have been an internet rumour started by a 12 year old nerd, the games would be useless on all existing machines.
However, their biggest problem would be Uri Geller. Already alleged to have forcibly spooned Shigeru Miyamoto, it seems this psych...ic takes no prisoners when he gets a grudge, and when not even your thoughts are a secret to this mind-reading poke-man, Nintendo may regret their tribute to his achievements.
So when it happens gamers should be able to move underground without immediate problems, but it seems like Sony will be the only company able to survive for the long term. Still, it doesn’t mean you have to buy your PS2 now, oh no. Go get Gamecube and X-Box while you have the chance.
Blair’s minime project is almost completed, the next election draws ever closer, and the window of opportunity narrows. Don’t wait too long.
I read this after a blatant plug I read in the Ninty WLT. Heh, only joking (although I did) :P
Your theory is very nice and I can see why Bill would be worried with the size of his X Box, looks like Nintendo anticipated this move as their console can be fashioned as some sort of a womens handbag now it has a handle, well either that or some sort of huge lego brick. :)
Nice post dude, liked it.
Your theory is very nice and I can see why Bill would be worried with the size of his X Box, looks like Nintendo anticipated this move as their console can be fashioned as some sort of a womens handbag now it has a handle, well either that or some sort of huge lego brick. :)
Nice post dude, liked it.
The Greeks had a pop at it as a scapegoat for gambling, Thailand as blame for dead people in cafes, the rest of the world for the cause of violence, and me as a scapegoat for if I blow my degree.
Sling enough mud and some will stick, but what if gaming were to get so muddy it wasn’t allowed in the house?
Yep, it may not look too likely, but all it’d take is one nutter to get some political weight *cough*happenedinamerica*cough* and we could see videogames made illegal.
For a while we should be okay. Us students are already finely trained in the art of hiding our TVs from the law, and if students can do it, imagine what someone who wasn’t completely idle could achieve.
But as the Fifa series shows, gamers need new games all the time, they’re too easily bored when titles get repetetive. Or does it prove the opposite? Hmm…
Anyway, with no official retailers taking the risk of getting their hands cut off by Tony W Blair Jr, we’d all be a little stuck for new games.
So long as foreign countries weren’t joining the madness the playstation should go from strength to strength – with an intricate underground market in illegal titles already established, most gamers would hardly notice the difference. Meanwhile asylum seekers could find prosperous work making fools of British customs as they sneaked games over the border.
Bill Gates might get upset about the growth (albeit a drop in the ocean) in illegal software, but if they’re bought from some shop in the world he’d still be appeased by his cut, more problematic would be getting new hardware into the country. The weight shouldn’t be a problem, but the console wouldn’t fit through the airport’s x-ray machine.
Still, at least it explains why he’s trying to shift so many X-Boxes now, while he has the chance.
Size wouldn’t be a problem for Nintendo. If they were to sneak Japanese games into the country the packaging would be even smaller, but this faces the obvious flaw that now freeloader has been confirmed to only ever have been an internet rumour started by a 12 year old nerd, the games would be useless on all existing machines.
However, their biggest problem would be Uri Geller. Already alleged to have forcibly spooned Shigeru Miyamoto, it seems this psych...ic takes no prisoners when he gets a grudge, and when not even your thoughts are a secret to this mind-reading poke-man, Nintendo may regret their tribute to his achievements.
So when it happens gamers should be able to move underground without immediate problems, but it seems like Sony will be the only company able to survive for the long term. Still, it doesn’t mean you have to buy your PS2 now, oh no. Go get Gamecube and X-Box while you have the chance.
Blair’s minime project is almost completed, the next election draws ever closer, and the window of opportunity narrows. Don’t wait too long.
Sling enough mud and some will stick, but what if gaming were to get so muddy it wasn’t allowed in the house?
Yep, it may not look too likely, but all it’d take is one nutter to get some political weight *cough*happenedinamerica*cough* and we could see videogames made illegal.
For a while we should be okay. Us students are already finely trained in the art of hiding our TVs from the law, and if students can do it, imagine what someone who wasn’t completely idle could achieve.
But as the Fifa series shows, gamers need new games all the time, they’re too easily bored when titles get repetetive. Or does it prove the opposite? Hmm…
Anyway, with no official retailers taking the risk of getting their hands cut off by Tony W Blair Jr, we’d all be a little stuck for new games.
So long as foreign countries weren’t joining the madness the playstation should go from strength to strength – with an intricate underground market in illegal titles already established, most gamers would hardly notice the difference. Meanwhile asylum seekers could find prosperous work making fools of British customs as they sneaked games over the border.
Bill Gates might get upset about the growth (albeit a drop in the ocean) in illegal software, but if they’re bought from some shop in the world he’d still be appeased by his cut, more problematic would be getting new hardware into the country. The weight shouldn’t be a problem, but the console wouldn’t fit through the airport’s x-ray machine.
Still, at least it explains why he’s trying to shift so many X-Boxes now, while he has the chance.
Size wouldn’t be a problem for Nintendo. If they were to sneak Japanese games into the country the packaging would be even smaller, but this faces the obvious flaw that now freeloader has been confirmed to only ever have been an internet rumour started by a 12 year old nerd, the games would be useless on all existing machines.
However, their biggest problem would be Uri Geller. Already alleged to have forcibly spooned Shigeru Miyamoto, it seems this psych...ic takes no prisoners when he gets a grudge, and when not even your thoughts are a secret to this mind-reading poke-man, Nintendo may regret their tribute to his achievements.
So when it happens gamers should be able to move underground without immediate problems, but it seems like Sony will be the only company able to survive for the long term. Still, it doesn’t mean you have to buy your PS2 now, oh no. Go get Gamecube and X-Box while you have the chance.
Blair’s minime project is almost completed, the next election draws ever closer, and the window of opportunity narrows. Don’t wait too long.