Musings of the Great Eric

The rise and fall of Sega: from the eyes of Tom Kalinske:
Sega was a company that had it all. They were beating Nintendo at the hardware game, consumers thought their software offerings were more grown up, and the money was rolling in. Then they made some bad hardware decisions (32X, we’re talking about you) and […]

Sweet.

The game consists of 8 KB (8192 Bytes) of coding, graphics, musics and sounds. As the 2600 can only handle 4 KB of ROM at the same time, bankswitching is used to toggle between the two ROM-banks as if they were one. The intro and the musics are located in bank 2 while the main […]

Jon Stewart does what he does best, point out what jackasses they are. And it’s so well deserved.

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A hilarious list of stuff that’s happened in the nine years since Duke Nukem Forever was first announced. We put a man on the moon in less time than it’s taken to develop this video game. Enough said, really.
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It starts to look worse
An internal Gamestop email expressed concern over how many PS3s their chain (which is the largest videogame retailer and includes Ebgames as well) would have available. A local store that received between 50 and 100 Xbox 360s at launch is expecting to get no more than 20 PS3s.

And the Xbox 360 […]

Well, that explains the $600 price point.
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More bad news for Sony (makes me so sad to report, really).
Joystiq had a little poll asking what system or combination of systems it’s readers plan on buying, given the PS3’s high sticker price.
The result? At the time of this writing, a whopping 87% of respondants plan on buying a Wii either alone or with […]

A friend of mine spotted this on the Nintendo Web Site:
Virtual Console: Wii will have downloadable access to 20 years of fan-favorite titles originally released for Nintendo 64, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) and even the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The Virtual Console also will feature a “best of” selection from Sega Genesis titles […]

Curmudgeon Gamer has been kind enough to create some graphs of the history of game console prices, adjusted for inflation, which is fairly revealing.
The “magic number” for game consoles appears to be around the (2006 adjusted) $300 mark, with all the most successful consoles hugging that line pretty tightly.
The most interesting thing to note though […]

Not that I’m there, of course. (One of my lifelong goals though). But I find that when the real world pisses me off too much, it’s nice to immerse yourself in stuff that’s totally inconsequential. Like Booth Babes. Yay!
Much to my delight, it seems that Nintendo basically stole the show. I don’t care that they […]

Duck Hunt Cometh.
I think that headline just gave me an orgasm.
This is almost enough to get me to forgive them for calling it the Nintendo Wii.
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