I recently posted about the Gamecube controller and there was some talk about the console itself. This video came out shortly afterwards and goes over a lot of what was discussed in that thread.

Gotta love this statement from a Nintendo of America person fretting about the Cube's colour before release:

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I guess they were right since they were talking about American gamers in the year 2001

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    "Mario and Sonic are for kids. Waah, Celda sucks, I want a realistic gritty Zelda!"

    Yeah, it was pretty bad. One thing that most people don't really talk about is how there were almost no 2D games for consoles, because 2D was still considered "outdated" or whatever. Thankfully the GBA existed for 2D gaming 😏

    edit: The Stop Skeletons from Fighting video about the N-Gage showing the announcement with the price painted on a topless woman's boobs awooga freeze-gamer volcel-judge

    • Owl [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      almost no 2D games for consoles, because 2D was still considered "outdated" or whatever

      That infuriated me as a kid in the PS1/N64 era, when everyone was talking about how great the new era of graphics were, when we were going from

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