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echinopsis posted:games where you had to waggle the joystick as fast as possible to win https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBxW4bDI1rU 
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echinopsis posted:games where you had to waggle the joystick as fast as possible to win https://youtu.be/e56eOBxQVds
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the guy whose boss went to a cabin in the woods for several months without internet and such in january 2020
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echinopsis posted:games where you had to waggle the joystick as fast as possible to win My favorite thing about this was when Nintendo shipped gloves to people that complained about Marios Party rubbing their palms bloody with the joystick spinning games.
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in mario party for N64 there was a minigame where you had to spin the joystick as fast as possible. ofc the N64 controller joysticks were garbage: X and Y axes were interlocking plastic dealios attached to rotary position sensors, as you used it the plastic-on-plastic parts would wear themselves down gradually expanding the joystick dead-zone until it was unusable. im certain that minigame was responsible for ruining many a childs' controller(s). edit: i actually remember as a kid having real issues playing majora's mask with the goron character. you had to do full +Y on the joystick when rolling to enter the charged up state and our controller's joystick was so worn it was a real challenge to do. this was exacerbated by the fact that there was a minigame where you had to do a race with the goron character. pretty sure i didn't manage to win that until we got a new controller. Pile Of Garbage fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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also didn't the original Wii controllers not ship with straps and they had to ship out straps to people after people started nailing their TVs with flying controllers?
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nintendo games were always so loving expensive. $70+ for n64, i think super mario rpg cost me 65 bucks as a 12 year old
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i bought botw for my nephew shortly after it released, and I’m pretty sure it cost less than when i bought it alongside my own switch like 3 years later
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Pile Of Garbage posted:also didn't the original Wii controllers not ship with straps and they had to ship out straps to people after people started nailing their TVs with flying controllers? nah, they always shipped with straps, and always told you to put them on when you booted up the game the instructions to put the strap on got much bigger and they gave away free padded condoms
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Pile Of Garbage posted:also didn't the original Wii controllers not ship with straps and they had to ship out straps to people after people started nailing their TVs with flying controllers? they initially had thin straps, which they beefed up in addition to adding the controller condoms for better retention after reports of controllers going flying and breaking tvs i hated the wii controller setup because whenever i used it my hands would inevitably start to hurt after a while. it was particularly annoying because a lot of games would have played just fine with the classic controller, were it not for them shoehorning some dumb 'waggle as a button' or pointer gimmick in there
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nudgenudgetilt posted:nintendo games were always so loving expensive. $70+ for n64, i think super mario rpg cost me 65 bucks as a 12 year old cartridge games were more expensive than people generally recall. a lot of early snes and genesis games were $60 in the early 90s, and some of the larger/special chip snes and genesis games cost upwards of $80 (i think phantasy star 4 was about $100 at release) adjusted for inflation, the neo geo would have cost something like $1500 now, with the games being $500+ each
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when i was a kid right before xmas one year my mum rented us ocarina of time from blockbuster for a week and we enjoyed the poo poo out of it. then on xmas day one of the presents we got was that same copy of ocarina of time purchased ex-rental from blockbuster. it was awesome, my mum got it at a steep discount and we still had our save files on the cart! 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:im sure they got google dollar signs in their eyes and let them do whatever google also lied thru their teeth about how good microtrenching was quote:“Google Fiber will pay $3.84 million to Louisville Metro Government (LMG) to restore roads and other public rights-of-way affected by its departing service in Louisville.
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google glass lol https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/google-glass-is-about-to-be-discontinued-again/ weird thing is that i think as an enterprise product, for certain jobs, it was kind of better than any attempt at ar stuff since. and i haven't heard of a useful non-enterprise ar usecase yet.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:google glass lol https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/google-glass-is-about-to-be-discontinued-again/ arstechnica posted:The criticism was so fierce that the term "Glasshole" was sometimes used to describe people who wore it. lol
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Pile Of Garbage posted:in mario party for N64 there was a minigame where you had to spin the joystick as fast as possible. ofc the N64 controller joysticks were garbage: X and Y axes were interlocking plastic dealios attached to rotary position sensors, as you used it the plastic-on-plastic parts would wear themselves down gradually expanding the joystick dead-zone until it was unusable. im certain that minigame was responsible for ruining many a childs' controller(s). also; quote:https://www.cnet.com/culture/nintendo-offers-glove-to-prevent-joystick-injuries/ always fun to see an article from 2002 still available to read 
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:google glass lol https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/google-glass-is-about-to-be-discontinued-again/ hololens is still going for industrial customers
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The_Franz posted:cartridge games were more expensive than people generally recall. a lot of early snes and genesis games were $60 in the early 90s, and some of the larger/special chip snes and genesis games cost upwards of $80 (i think phantasy star 4 was about $100 at release) neo geo prices were always insane though because it was specifically intended as an “arcade experience” I don’t remember Nintendo through N64 games being that expensive, I think most NES games in the US were around $40 and The Legend of Zelda had a big price bump to $50 because it had state saving
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snes, n64 and gameboy carts were all at least $50
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i think starfox was 70
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Roosevelt posted:i think starfox was 70 yeah i think all the games that had a thing packed in were £70 here, lylatwars with the rumble pak, pokemon stadium and the transfer pak, dk64 and the expansion pak etc
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Encyclopedia cdroms.
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other people posted:Encyclopedia cdroms. it's been posted before but motherfucking mindmaze
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We just had whatever Encarta CDs they gave you when you bought a multimedia pc kit or new gateway2000 or whatever. The fancy ones would even include the odd 320x240 video.
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They were a good thing to point to when your parents were on the fence about buying.
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MS had a movie encyclopedia on CD-ROM in like 1994. one good feature was that you could search for actors with and AND statement, so if you couldn't remeber what that movie was called where they turned people into VHS machines, you could search for Deborah Harry AND James Woods.
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axolotl farmer posted:MS had a movie encyclopedia on CD-ROM in like 1994. one good feature was that you could search for actors with and AND statement, so if you couldn't remeber what that movie was called where they turned people into VHS machines, you could search for Deborah Harry AND James Woods. other people posted:We just had whatever Encarta CDs they gave you when you bought a multimedia pc kit or new gateway2000 or whatever. The fancy ones would even include the odd 320x240 video. these are the same thing lol encarta owned pretty hard, i loved playing with it when i was young
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other people posted:Encyclopedia cdroms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGVYe_Ytsk i had this and the "history" installment of the same series.
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rotor posted:hololens is still going for industrial customers yeah, that's what i am saying though, google glass for industry stuff makes more sense to me than hololens, mostly in that it is cheaper, simpler, and looks easier to wear. ultimately the usecase seems to me to be to provide some information without taking up your hands, and perfectly overlaying it on the world seems cool but not that useful. e: this post is preparatory for apples inevitable ar glasses of course.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:yeah, that's what i am saying though, google glass for industry stuff makes more sense to me than hololens, mostly in that it is cheaper, simpler, and looks easier to wear. ultimately the usecase seems to me to be to provide some information without taking up your hands, and perfectly overlaying it on the world seems cool but not that useful. doesn't hololens offer a full ar overlay? glass was just a small display in the corner of your vision
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i have no idea but "hololols" just popped into my head and i thought i would share this dumb thing that made me chuckle
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nudgenudgetilt posted:doesn't hololens offer a full ar overlay? glass was just a small display in the corner of your vision right, that's what i am saying: hololens is the overly elaborate, expensive and bulky thing, where glass does do the only useful thing about it i can think of for ar anyway, popping up some info about what is in front of you without needing hands
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that weird audio format you'd get for ringtones and texting some number to get smooth criminal on your 3210
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hmmm I wonder if there's an archive of those and those weird pixel art things you'd get
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Re: CD-ROM encyclopedias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOfDBieJegk The cool thing about it was we had a localized version, and the publisher (or devs?) re-did the whole animated title screen for the Polish release, with different letters and all Also I remember noticing as a kid that most of the encyclopedias had very little actual information and text so they couldn't be really used as learning aid for homework. Clicking stuff and watching 15fps tiny grainy videos was fun, still
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njsykora posted:isn't microsoft also shutting down hololens? fired a lot of the team in the layoffs iirc, not sure that means it is going away, but surely people are starting to realize that this wont be some huge product segment.
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laserghost posted:Re: CD-ROM encyclopedias the way things work is a great book for curious kids and the art holds up. my family had a set of world book encyclopedias that we updated at least twice. i would often pull one out and just read stuff that seemed interesting, and having a set at home was a real boon when i was old enough to start writing reports for school.
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Also I just remembered playing The Incredible Machine (TIM). That was a lot of fun.
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