XPost: alt.tv.nickelodeon, rec.games.video.classic, rec.games.video.nintendo   
   XPost: rec.games.video.atari   
   From: starsabre@net.att   
      
   In article <9Iu4i.6957$xV.6936@trnddc05>,   
    Scott H  wrote:   
      
   > > You have much to learn, young grasshopper.  There was a time when VCRs   
   > > came with remote controls and these controls had long wires connecting   
   > > them to the VCR.  The point was you didn't have to get up off the   
   > > couch to fastforward and rewind, so it was a remote.  Still, *I*   
   > > wouldn't call a video game controller a remote in most cases.   
   > >   
   >   
   > That is news to me.  It also somewhat invalidates my point.  I was   
   > mostly being intolerant in the first place.  People are used to calling   
   > things they hold in their hands that control something on the TV a   
   > "remote," which is short for remote control.   
      
   I'm not sure which part youa re saying is news to you.  But if it is the   
   remote to a vcr being wired. I can tell you from having sold vcrs back   
   in 1982 at Video Concepts that it was a **BIG** deal when remotes went   
   wireless.  VCRs back then were selling $800-$1000 with wired remotes,   
   and the first wireless were then running $1100-$1500.  By Christmas that   
   year, wireless was down to under $900.   
      
   As to the vernacular of calling a joystick a remote, this was done by   
   the same "out of the loop" parents and old fogies that called game   
   cartridges "tapes."   
      
   jt   
      
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