From: dcutter@oregon.uoregon.edu (dann cutter)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Crash '93 (boxes that go boink)
Followup-To: rec.games.video
Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:40:04 GMT
Organization: Stellar Enterprises
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This is just a thought... re[eat, this has no basis in rumor just
speculation.

In the early eighties we saw the fall of all the mighty games companies
when a bunch of eight year old got sick of boxes that went boink.

Well now its almost 93. The nintendo has been popular because of basically
a few good games. The same can be said of every gaming machine in fact.
Actually if you look at it, there are probably 50 total games for the Nes,
Snes, and SegaG which have built these machines to their current
popularity, and all the rest can be said to be good or bad - but not legacy
builders. I mean how much status does Wrecking Crew for the Nes, Drakken
for the SNES, and Sword of virmillion for the genisis deserve. Face it;
unless we get a few quality good games, I think these machines would be out
the door fairly quickly, and you'ld be getting Super Star Wars in the
discount bin.

My point: Sega has definately overstepped it with the Sega CD. They are
trying to capture a future market with games that are mediocre at best.
Both the Gen and the Snes are quility machines which have a few (10 each)
games which make both systems worth having. No point in arguing which is
better... its moot unless you put the exact same game on both machines...
and I mean every game, not just limited sports and action shooter games.
Nintendo however has teased us with promises of new, fast super playing cd
machines in the future. Maybe not ready or willing to enter the market yet,
they are content to solidly support each machine entry before trying to
outdate it.

Each company has its faults... but I think what they have both failed to
learn is it don't matter squat who puts out what when. One good game (I use
SFII as perfect evidense(sp?)) can put a machine on the map. Had the Nes
come out with about 20 different (and I do mean creatively different)
versions along the lines of Zelda and Mario - of about the same support and
quality, their would be no contest that we would all have one (even if we
liked our Snes, or genisis better; we'd probably find more interest in the
Nes)

Point: Debating over which system is moot. A crash similar to the early
eighties is bound to happen one day, leaving both companies fighting to get
back a market which had gotten bored. What we need is a powerhouse game
developer to show us that the machine doesn't matter except to the
obsessive (mines better than yours is nah - how drole). More games Like
Sonic II, Zelda III, SFII, and the few others that have built an empire are
important. Case in point: Origin computers spent 1 million on Ultima7...
the first day they got that back in sales (and pushed everybody to a higher
level of machine to play the damn thing). They could probably spend half
that puting it onto a system well - like Zelda hopefully; and damned if we
wouldn't all have copies within a few day. Hell, in twenty years I'm still
gunna like to play Sonic II. 

Make the games... and the machines will follow.

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Dann Cutter  Stellar Enterprises / dcutter@oregon.uoregon.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.video