raindog

Good points, doom3, but the lowest possible (i.e. best) score you can get in Brain Age is 20, so there really isn't much point in kids playing it at all. I would say that Brain Age is a good example of games for people middle-aged and older, and Nintendogs is a good example of games that appeal to women and girls. (Though of the women I know who have played Nintendo DS games, Animal Crossing seems to be the big hit.)

What 13-year-old fanboys think is "kiddy" really translates to "that which 13-year-old fanboys' friends think is uncool." The third-place finish of the Gamecube can be chalked up entirely to Nintendo's hostility towards 3rd party developers for the last 15 years. They put up with it for the SNES because Nintendo was still on top, then jumped over to the PS1 with enthusiasm. Only now are they starting to come back, and the quality of 3rd party games we see after a year or two will also make or break the Wii (the launch featuring over 20 3rd party titles is pretty hopeful, as long as they're not shovelware or demo level stuff. I am a little nervous about the focus on minigames, even though I know older gamers prefer a big variety of shorter activities, being an older gamer myself.)

Finally, try toking up before you play a round of "Herro Kitty: Roller Rescue" and then tell me that's a kiddy game. You'll never be the same again.

I think Billy actually looks like Tom "Scientolojesus" Cruise circa "Born on the Fourth of July". Either that, or some member of ".38 Special".

Heeeeeee's dreeeeeeeamy.....

What I wish more than anything else about Guitar Hero is that we had the option to plug an actual guitar in and get judged for our actual playing. I mean, fine, have the guitar controller for non-players, but some of these songs I was playing 20 years ago and it'd be like some retro thing to play them again and be judged by a videogame rather than, you know, an empty room.

That, and Heart of the Sunrise would be awesome, but I agree that Starship Trooper is the more guitar-centric song.

Ah well, I know I'll buy it regardless..... I loves me some War Pigs....

Pretty sure Joust didn't have any music, btw. (Did any Williams games? Bubbles, maybe?)

No, the Colecovision was not in any sense a "32-bit" system, technically or otherwise. It was a Z80-based 8-bit system, with no coprocessors of any kind and a video architecture that required you to send graphics to the frame buffer 1 byte at a time.

The Intellivision, on the other hand, used a 16-bit CPU but 10-bit memory. And while it could display a lot more things on the screen at once as the Atari, it had the same resolution, fewer colors, and the processor was actually slower. That's why the Intellivision is always lumped into the 8-bit generation rather than being hailed as the first 16-bit console.

But man, when it came out I promise you we were all drooling over it the way people are drooling over the Wii (or the PS3, before E3) nowadays. Atari games were fun but this was "intelligent television", whatever that was supposed to mean.

Anyway, I hope that if Nintendo doesn't track down that Jimmy guy and give him a free Wii, one of the gaming sites will. Especially if he's not into games anymore since that's part of Wii's target audience.

I dunno, it sounds good, but I'm getting kind of a Duke Nukem Forever vibe off of these guys.

I think House, as a late-40's bachelor with arrested development and no alimony or child support sandbagging him, has every gadget you can imagine and we'll see him using whichever ones the prop department has most recently gotten for "promotional considerations". So next fall (shooting soon if not already) we'll probably see him using a white DS Lite, and then maybe a fire engine red PSP if that's what Sony is pushing, and inbetween, lots of iPod shots.

As for this one.... I love the smoke-bomb DS. It's so bad.

Kids with autism don't usually have speech impediments; usually they just don't talk at all.

Let's just cut to the chase:

Teh Nintendo Sex.

So much for the kiddie image...

I'm pretty sure WPA is something they would have to add to the software, not the hardware.