tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post8911243253901677695..comments2023-10-31T08:41:20.690-04:00Comments on Poisonous Paragraphs: The Middle Children Of History present The 10 Greatest Gaming Consoles Of All Times (According To Us)Dart Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00878801052893199850noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-50345953944080548542008-06-25T13:02:00.000-04:002008-06-25T13:02:00.000-04:00@ doc zeus:I hated the N64 more than the Jheri Cur...@ doc zeus:<BR/><BR/>I hated the N64 more than the Jheri Curl. I was a certified Nintendo hater during the SNES/N64/Gamecube era (PlayStation/PS2 owner) and as I type this my niece and nephew are behind me playing Wii Play on my Wii.<BR/><BR/>Hilarious.<BR/><BR/>One.Dart Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00878801052893199850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-122680529198184902008-06-25T12:25:00.000-04:002008-06-25T12:25:00.000-04:00Great post. My only gripe would be that you did no...Great post. My only gripe would be that you did not include the N64 on that list.<BR/><BR/>C'mon, tell me you didn't pee your pants a lil when you first saw Mario rendered in 3D for Mario 64. That game still is heat rocks, almost 15 years later. It never gets old.DocZeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167201486110098029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-46041037958787455582008-06-25T11:04:00.000-04:002008-06-25T11:04:00.000-04:00Ahhhh...memories of my Colecovision. I begged my ...Ahhhh...memories of my Colecovision. I begged my mom to get that for me when I was 10 or 11for Xmas. My friends and I played it every single day (Zaxxon, Dinkey Kong, etc.). And then the worst possible thing happened. It died exactly on the 91st day, which was the day after the warranty expired. Of course, my mom wouldn't get me a replacement but that system was worth it. We went back to playing Atari 2600 until the Atari 5200 came out.<BR/><BR/>Vincent<BR/>thimk.wordpress.comvincentlopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10843404269738789974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-38039281745675306392008-06-24T22:11:00.000-04:002008-06-24T22:11:00.000-04:00@ codec:Yes, I have seen it and there will be a ha...@ codec:<BR/><BR/>Yes, I have seen it and there will be a handheld post in the future as well as a post about the most frustrating games ever that I haven't yet ironed out the details about how I'm going to do it yet.<BR/><BR/>One.Dart Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00878801052893199850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-73652067220040900912008-06-24T18:45:00.000-04:002008-06-24T18:45:00.000-04:00your last couple of sentences just reminded me abo...your last couple of sentences just reminded me about the BBC documentary "Tetris - From Russia With Love". Don't tell me you haven't seen it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBIpn6a4yU<BR/><BR/>BTW, you gotta get the handhelds in there.c0dechttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02701328841309651887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-10227907023485985482008-06-24T13:03:00.000-04:002008-06-24T13:03:00.000-04:00Good stuff Dart, although I came up with the Intel...Good stuff Dart, although I came up with the Intellivsion by Mattel. Back in early 80s, it was the ish! Unfortunatley, it was priced too high and they slowly scaled back, until they pulled it entirely. Some outfit in Cali made games for the old units thru 90-91. Best game: Night Stalker.@slushygutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10245930450334521895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-68420321829562171832008-06-24T08:30:00.000-04:002008-06-24T08:30:00.000-04:00Brilliant post, Dart. I couldn't agree more, even...Brilliant post, Dart. I couldn't agree more, even though I haven't played half of these consoles.<BR/><BR/>I haven't thought about "Altered Beast" in probably over a decade. That was my shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-6362423771223530842008-06-23T20:01:00.000-04:002008-06-23T20:01:00.000-04:00@ goathair:Virtual Tennis sold like crack rocks fo...@ goathair:<BR/><BR/>Virtual Tennis sold like crack rocks for the Sega Dreamcast. I had a friend that worked at EBX back in the days and they used to fly off of the shelves. My boy Kai (he's in the picture) owned one and later my brother copped one when they raised the white flag. I can't believe a system that great with games that good started out such a success and ended up discontinuing in less than 18 months.<BR/><BR/>@ raafi:<BR/><BR/>The Sega Master System got BODIED by the NES and while it did have some cool games like Zillion, Black Belt, Shinobi, Double Dragon, etc no one owned one.<BR/><BR/>There was one kid in our entire neighborhood named Chris that had a Sega Master System and even though there were several Chris' is the South End (Boston) he was identified as "Sega Chris" for years when we mentioned him.<BR/><BR/>As a TurboGrafx 16 owner, I could relate.<BR/><BR/>One.Dart Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00878801052893199850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-17102011193744792232008-06-23T18:09:00.000-04:002008-06-23T18:09:00.000-04:00Either yours is the greatest blog of all time, thi...Either yours is the greatest blog of all time, this is simply an astoundingly good post, or this is all just a tremendous waste of time. In any case, while nodding my head to many of your assessments, I must submit, humbly, my tale of woe in the console wars (which also doubles as the most overlooked console of all time): The Sega Master System.<BR/><BR/>The Master System was the contemporary of the NES, and ten bucks more expensive when the two launched. Sega knew that they had better graphics (but less games) and hedged that the ten bucks extra wouldn't be the deal-breaker it turned out to be. After that Christmas, the kids in my school came back with the NES by a 3 to 1 ratio -- a costly 10 dollar miscalculation -- and the rest, as they say, was history. Action Fighter, a game for the Master System, remains my favorite video game of all time. The games Black Belt, The Ninja, and later Shinobi established Sega's great pedigree with martial-arts games that Nintendo could not (or did not care to) compete with. My freshman year in college I once commiserated with two other former Master System owners -- it was like being the last of a dying breed . We still seethed at the NES' success even though the console world had moved on to the 16-bit generation. Along with the VHS/Beta battle, the NES/Sega battle stands as one of the great lessons of consumerism of my youth.raafihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428834358473817140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420176845224246684.post-58200402365566511402008-06-23T16:28:00.000-04:002008-06-23T16:28:00.000-04:00If the NES wasn't tops I was going to get ferociou...If the NES wasn't tops I was going to get ferocious.<BR/><BR/>There was a tennis game for Dreamcast that was FIRE. And NFL Gameday '98 for PS2 was the hottness in high school. I'm getting teary-eyed just reminiscing.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07438852118434817881noreply@blogger.com