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   From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   dos-man 64 wrote:   
   > On Dec 6, 10:37 am, Scott H  wrote:   
   >> dos-man 64 wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> They also claim that the Genesis overtook the SNES due to Sonic   
   >>> becoming a more popular and beloved character than Mario (or perhaps   
   >>> even link and dk.)   Right :)  Somebody needs to offer up some type of   
   >>> proof to support that claim.  I simply consider the Genesis to be a   
   >>> better system than the SNES was.   
   >> They don't have to substantiate anything, they just have to make sure no   
   >> other magazines contradict them.  Since they've all been spouting the   
   >> same story of Sega's "colossal failure" since 2001 I doubt the public   
   >> will ever have a more nuanced view.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Something that gets lost in the shuffle all the time is the fact that   
   > the second Zelda for the NES was a bigtime bust.  They botched the   
   > proverbial sure thing by messing with the formula, and the public   
   > would have none of it.  All momentum that Nintendo had accumulated   
   > from the first game was lost. It wasn't until Ocarina of Time on the   
   > 64 that the series really revived and started bringing back the masses   
   > again.  At least that's how I see it.   
      
   Heh, Zelda 2 is the only Zelda game I can play without falling asleep.   
   I love that side scrolling combat in the castles especially.  From my   
   retail experience, I can say that A link to the Past on the SNES was and   
   is extremely popular.  Zelda 64 defined the 3D adventure genre though,   
   and nearly everything since then has either been a clone of it or of FPS   
   gameplay unfortunately.  I should really play Gunvalkyrie.   
      
   > It's kind of cool having lived through the entire life cycle of   
   > gaming.  No one wants to be "old", but I have a lot of great memories   
   > from ancient days gone by.  I wouldn't trade them for anything. I can   
   > still remember playing the original donkey kong arcade machine for the   
   > first time.  Or when the Tron machine hit the arcades, etc.  And   
   > Playing a wizard of wor sitdown machine.  You had to play from a   
   > sideways vantage point, it was almost impossible.  I consider it to be   
   > have been quite an honor to have been able to play so many of those   
   > antique machines. I was very lucky.   
   >   
   > dos-man   
      
   I really hate the early stuff.  I didn't start wanting to play games   
   until Bad Dudes, Double Dragon, Shinobi, Space Harrier and Afterburner   
   came out in the arcades.  Before that I just didn't really care, my   
   friends all had NESs by the time I started going to arcades and whenever   
   I looked back I was disappointed.  I played the heck out of Joust,   
   Qbert, Frogger, Empire Strikes Back (2600), Star Wars (vector arcade)   
   and Donkey Kong, but they were just a diversion, later 80s action games   
   really excited me.  They still do actually   
      
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