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Originally posted by Lou Gojira:
Anytime Sindee.

Oh no, don't allow yourself to think the graphics in Zelda have gone downhill. It's easy to do looking at still screenshots, but when you see this game in motion, your jaw will drop! No lie, and I'm a real graphics fiend when it comes to video games.

In fact, a new Zelda is in the works for the Game Cube, and the graphics have gone back to more realism. I've seen some screenshots of it, and Link looks like he's about 18 years old this time out. The graphics have that gritty realism, the dark shadows, all that stuff, and you want to know the first thing I did when I saw all of this? I got madder than hell, because Wind Waker, to me, was SUCH a work of art with it's cartoonish look, that now Zelda looks like almost any other 3D game...

Don't get me wrong, I'll probably be buying it when it comes out, but Wind Waker is always gonna have a place in my heart for it's uniqueness and style. I get fanatical about things when they really, really impress me, and video games are no exception. I enjoy all kinds of games, but every-so-often, a game comes along and makes me feel like I've rediscovered the hobby, it'll be so well made and captivating, blowing me away...Wind Waker is one of those games!

So in a way, you're in luck with all of this. You've got Wind Waker already available, and a realistic looking Zelda on the way. Two Zelda's on one system...not to mention a lot of other great games for it...that should help you in convincing Tony!

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That is so great to hear!! Of course, by the time the new Zelda comes out I'll be back in school and once again up to my ass in academic alligators!! Poo!!!

As for convincing Tony... he's already read my last post and said "no" to the Game Cube...
Fortunately for me... I have ways of making him change his mind!! Hee Hee!

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Originally posted by Sasha:
So this is what happened to all the geeks and nerds from high school, they became foot guys/girls..... ....Just jokeing

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Damn straight Sweetheart! Just give me barefoot girls and video games, and I'm a happy guy!

Of course you know you're dating yourself here Sasha... When we were in high school, it was in fact us hardcore "geeky" types that played video games and really got into them... Now everybody's doing it! The cool kids, the nerdy ones, and almost every other type in between! Thanks to the corporations nosing in to the hobby, playing video games (certain ones anyway) is now the "cool" thing to do.

I used to think this would be a good thing when I was in that small "geeky" minority back in high school, but now I'm not so sure... there's still good video games being made, but it seems like they're fewer and farther between than before...maybe it's just me getting older and more jaded with time...but on the other hand, how many current games can you think of that are really hard? Games that force you to learn patterns, think and stay two moves ahead, and be quick and precise with your actions? Nowhere near as many as back in the 16-bit era, at least not to my knowledge...

Oh well, I guess that'll make me appreciate the hardcore element that still occasionally surfaces, and that I used to take for granted...

And on that note, I think I hear Ikaruga calling me from across the house...
"You can't get a 40 piece chain you pussy! And you just try to whip that boss with 70 seconds left on the clock!"

Away I go...

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Originally posted by Sasha:
Lou,

My final GPA when I graduated was 3.7..Does that qualify me for geekdom

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Nerddom, maybe. Geekdom? Kinda' hard to say...here's a little test though:

While in high school, did you ever get into heated debates, bordering on and occasionally coming down to fist fights over which game system was the best at the time?

Have you ever made a reference to a video game character or scenario in a video game to back up a point you're trying to make on an unrelated subject?

Have you ever watched the clock while in school, counting the minutes down, not just to be able to get out of there, but so you could get home to try out a new code or pattern on a game to get a better score or to beat it?

Have you ever made jokes with your fellow video gamers about game companies and manufacturers?

Have you ever laughed at jokes of that calibur?

If you answered yes to more than one of those questions, you are definitely in league with geekdom. If you answered yes to only one of them, you're still a geek, just a mild one.

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Originally posted by Patrick:
Lou,

I haven't gotten to read all of this topic being there are 10 pages, but I saw your initial post and it is neat to see someone else into the retro game systems too. I have a collection of some odd balls too. Here are the systems I have, all hooked up and all working. Although the ABCD switches with more ABCD switches coming out of them can be confusing!

- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo Gamecube
- Sega Master System
- Sega Genesis
- Sega CD
- Sega 32X
- Sega Saturn
- Sega Dreamcast
- Playstation 2 (no need to have the old one up anymore, but I do have it)
- XBox
- Panasonic 3DO
- Phillips CD-I
- Turbo Grafx 16
- Atari Jaguar

I never owned a Neo Geo or the Turbo Duo. We used to have the Atari 2600 and 7800 way back, but don't anymore.

- Patrick

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Day-umm! And here I thought I had a ridiculous mass of wires in my living room because of all the systems...That's quite an impressive collection of systems there Patrick!

The ones I don't have out of that list are:
Nintendo 64
Sega Master System (had it and sold it years ago when I got hard up for cash...STILL regret doing it)
Sega 32X (had it, and sold it like a jackass)
Playstation 2
XBox
3DO
CD-I
Jaguar (I came real close to getting this one when I heard about Tempest coming out on it)

If you don't mind my inquiring, what about your game collection? What are your faves for the Sega Master System, Turbo Grafx-16, and Sega 32X?

Also, just out of curiosity, have you heard anything about the CD-I supposedly causing Phillips/Magnavox to have to file for bankruptcy? When I was a kid, my Dad had bought the Odyssey 2 game system by Magnavox (it and all the games are probably ruined out in his garage by now), and I was gaming it up on that about two years before an Atari 2600 was brought into the house, so when I saw that Magnavox took another swing at video games, I was pretty hopeful that they could "do it right" this time...but I think they missed the margin again by a few hundred miles.

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Originally posted by Ramsfan:
The Atari. I remember playing that system back in the days.

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Which one? Atari had like three different systems, and that's not even counting their attempts at getting into the home computer market.

The Atari I played as a kid was the 2600, but once that puttered out, Dad went and bought a knock-off system called the Gemini, which was basically an Atari 2600, but was made by Coleco and had a killer design to it. The joysticks and paddle controllers were combined, and the action button was on the side intead of the top of the controller. This little system held up fine for about a year or so, then the connection jacks to the controllers started wearing out...you'd be in the middle of a game, then all of a sudden your controller would stop working...that really sucked when playing River Raid, racking up a high score, then watching as you helplessly careened into the side of a wall...

Still, a lot of fun times were had on that classic system. I remember games of four-player Warlords, playing Reactor until my eyes were blurred, and beating Pitfall 2 for the first time...ahhhh, the memories...

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