Yoshi Likes Boys

[01:50] Squall eats Tidus' boomstick.

You know, now that I think about it, I've read stories like that....

mmm:

NES: $5, SNES: $8, N64: $10.

Unwrap the candy bar and bite into the nougat for MASSIVE DAMAGE to your appetite.

This emulation argument is so old and so tired. Copyright infringement/piracy is really only justifiable when there's no available legal option. You stick with whatever you want, nobody's about to burn your house down and put you in jail for emulation.

Personally, I will be purchasing VC games for easily available wireless multiplayer around a TV with my *gasp* friends, and naturally, to finally play these games with a decent D-Pad, since the one on the classic controller looks to be bitchin'. And it really doesn't matter what the 1% of gamers who use emulators think, since the other 99% will go for the legal option for games that they haven't played in years.

You expect some doof off the street to be able to mod his xbox and install an emulator? Besides, anyone who plays oldschool games with that catastrophe of a controller is only hurting himself and deserves what's coming to him. It's a fine business strategy for Nintendo, so give up your "I LIKE MY ROMS" argument. I will be speaking with my wallet to let Nintendo know I fully support the memory of the classics and hope for more accessible retro goodness and hopefully more multiplayer. The sitcom fans who shrugged off bittorrent (which is free) and downloaded episodes of the Office on iTunes saved the show from cancellation.

Having a system which, once these games are available, will be able to, for $18 combined, instantly download (and, Nintendo's already announced that they'll let you redownload if your console is broken or stolen) two of the five greatest games of all time, is an ideal that I'd like to support. I did the same thing for the Game Boy Advance, since the focus of portable gaming was a style of gaming I appreciate and was glad to see kept alive. (Thanks again Igarashi) I'm sorry that you don't feel strongly enough about the REAL age of gaming to whip out a couple dollars and support a true effort to keep the classics alive. Anything that gets me that and a legal system which I can gather around with friends and play Mario Kart 64, 4-player Bomberman, SSBM(&B), Tecmo Super Bowl, and Wario Ware from one box is fine by me.

All of this doesn't matter since the only people who would use emulators as a substitute, like I said, constitute less than 1% of gamers. The other 99% are ripe for the picking; someone can pick up a Wii from Wal-Mart and ask "what should I get for it?" and the door to the greats is wide open and ready to be walked through. A world where you can reply "$8 will get you Super Metroid," ESPECIALLY to those who are too young to have played it the first time, and have them able to experience all the greatest games the way they should be experienced, with a genuine controller, on a real TV, right out of the box with no complexity necessary, reminding people why they fell in love with gaming in the first place, and opening new eyes up to the greatest works of gaming our cultures have ever created, is a world of gaming that I'd like to be a part of.

No big whoop. All that matters is that incredibly badass D-Pad.

Ugh. Ladies, ladies. The DS is still rocking out insane amounts of great software and is an awesome system, but PSP's lackluster game library is OLD, OUTDATED SMACK. Sony has had a great last 6 months, with lots of really fun and portable-playable titles. Lots of RPG, retro, retro remakes, and freaking Katamari and Loco Roco. Give the PSP a break, it's got a big bright side now and has picked itself up from where it started.

My god, it's full of stupid.

This is a fantastic culturally referential ad. The baby is the Star Child, and the floating black PS3 is the obelisk. That is AWESOME symbolic marketing, given who they're targeting initially (besides the throngs of g-lamers who are going to buy it anyway).