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| SavannahLion:
I've always wondered about that mgb. The U.S. had a reasonably sized Asian population whom the U.S. threw in to "camps" during WWII. Nintendo didn't have a regional office here then but how many of their cards were imported into the country? American troops often carried playing cards wherever they went, I just find it astonishing Japanese immigrants would not have done the same. @Trip, that's a better statement. :cheers: |
| yotsuya:
--- Quote from: Necro on August 30, 2012, 12:19:05 pm --- They still sold games in Toys R Us and Kiddie City, and I remember getting one game that came with an extra keypad (a space shooter thing) that was just WAY too complicated for me at that age that we returned. --- End quote --- Star Raiders for life, yo! |
| Necro:
Yeah. I regretted returning it a few months later. :) |
| yotsuya:
I STILL have a boxed Star Raiders in my shed. I loved that game, although it all honesty, it really didn't need the keypad. There's an Activision game called Starmaster that was the same basic game without the maps that was just as fun. And I know I was just a dumb kid who loved everything Atari/video game related, but I loved playing Pac-Man on the 2600. I was surprised recently when I read that the game was criticized when it came out. As a kid, I never had the expectation that the Atari version of any game would look as good as the arcade version- maybe that's why it didn't bother me as much? :dunno Confession: Once I learned that E.T. was a puzzle game and not an action/adventure game, I enjoyed the heck out of it. :laugh: |
| Ravenger:
Here in the UK we didn't really have a video game crash. What happened instead was the rise of low cost microcomputers like the Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum, (sold as the Timex/Sinclair 1000 and 2000 in the US), Commodore VIC 20 and C64, which rapidly took over from the VCS, Intellivision and other consoles. The games were cheaper as they were on cassete tape, and you had the excuse that your parents would buy you a computer for 'educational use' but you ended up playing games on it all the time anyway! One of the reasons the UK became one of the major producers of video game software is that kids experimented with the machines and made their own games. The NES didn't get much of a look-in. It wasn't until the SNES and Megadrive that console gaming became popular again. I worked in a computer store in the early 80's, selling Atari 8 Bit, MSX, VCS, Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex and later the Atari ST computers. I remember when the order came down to discount all the Vectrex machines and software as MB was pulling out of video games. My boss at the time said that in the US it was a flop because it was considered by the markets as 'too expensive for a hand-held toy'. ??? My biggest regret was being on a minimal wage at the time which meant I couldn't afford to buy any of the Vectrexes or games. It's one of my all-time favourite machines (I love vector games) and I completely missed my chance of getting a machine and the entire catalogue for a cheap price. :banghead: |
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