Nintendo wii

digital.noface wrote:

Muffin Man wrote:Don't have a Wii yet, but I plan to soon. I can't wait to get mine. Also, I'm getting a Nintendo logo tattoo sometime soon, lol.

Are they going to pay you for it, or are you offering the advertising space probono?

If Muffin Man gets that tat, this is the original Nintendo:


Hopefully not this:

i've got a wii! they're great!!!

puma wrote:If Muffin Man gets that tat, this is the original Nintendo:


Hopefully not this:

I don't know. I am pretty sick to $#%^ of the chinese character fad myself. Though it would be cool to have something that meant 'nintendo' rather than 'fire', 'spirit', or 'dragon'.

And yes, I know, 'kanji'. Same thing. Almost.

if you are going to get a nintendo tattoo, get this thing

I love that N64 logo. Let's go back even further though:



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Calum wrote:if you are going to get a nintendo tattoo, get this thing

Nintendo's very own hindenburg? The console that took Nintendo from the top of the game to rock bottom? The only reason I can think of tattoing that would be to have it across your forehead so as to inspire blind rage in a cheated nintendo generation - and practice your martial arts skills.

Chucky wrote:I love that N64 logo. Let's go back even further though:

*Nods* In my opinion the greatest console ever, respective to the market and times. Obviously the new consoles are much better objectively, but none have been as comparatively awesome as the SNES was in it's day. Except possibly the wii. No, actually, not yet- if the wii game developers continue on the path they are well and truly on to mastering the potential of the wii system, and bringing out a greater range of great games, then it will top SNES in my books. But not quite yet. It is, though, by far the closest console to come within a whisper of the SNES.

... ...and further still:

The NES was only really getting good close to right before they released the SNES, IMO. Anyhow, still a great system and also king of it's day. Though, not to the same extent as SNES.

digital.noface wrote:Obviously the new consoles are much better objectively, but none have been as comparatively awesome as the SNES was in it's day.

I agree, and I would include the Sega Mega Drive in that statement too. I mean, with modern games the general idea seems to be to make the game appear as real-life as possible. I don't want that! I want games the way they were on the older consoles: Nright colours, cheesy graphics, and lovable main characters.

The Wii is emulating this to some degree, I suppose.

I've thought about it, and it comes down to two main fctors. Art and skill.

Because of graphical limitations, previous consoles were better off stylising games artisitically than trying for realism. It served them well, and many visually pleasing games were produced. As technology increased, and realistic games became possible, the games industry understandably lost track. What was quickly learned is that realistic games are boring. People don't want to 'play' reality. Thus the better games in more recent years include strong efforts to design and stylise their games in tandem with enhanced graphics. The idea is to create a thing of beauty, not to replicte reality. The same goes for films. Once film became advanced enough to enable 'natural' footage, it was quickly learned that this is not what people want.

As for skill, there was something special in learning how to play a video game. Much like learning to ride a bike, there was an exhiliarating sense of wonder and accomplishment as you developed the skill required to actually play these games. Due to there being no major shift or innovation in gaming method since even the NES, this feeling has been absent from console gaming for quite some time (except of course for those new to the hobby). However, there is one brand new exception, hopefully a beacon for the industry. The nintendo wii. Through sufficiently innovating the gaming method they have recaptured the wonder of learning to play video games, something that must be done with the wii-mote. I found genuine enthusiasm in being a beginner all over again. I play my playsttion to appreciate the games as works of art (which they are), but I play my wii to apreciate the act of playing a game (in addition to the gmes themselves).

It is these two things that have been missing for little while in games, and this is why (in my opinion) they games lacked that 'certain something' that we remember from the earlier years. The good news is that it is well on the way to coming back into full swing. Plenty of newer game titles have woderfully stylised and artistic themes, and with the release of the wii we can see an epoch of a new ethod of gaming. Innovation and style is bck, and I am oh-so-happy about it.

what do you mean the n64 was a "hindenburg" ? it was great.