Organization: Mythos/Xcalbrin Inc.
X-School: Penn State University
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 01:51:38 EDT
From: Christopher M. Stoy <CMS129@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Nintendo adapter possibly coming out....
 <1992Apr5.192305.24577@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>

It makes me laugh to hear of a tap... I mean cartidge dumper for Nimbimbo. I
would love nothing else then to see the Nindumbo slowly die a hideous, painful,
all together bloody death due to a huge swell in pirating. But let's face it,
most Ninshito groupies know little more about hardware then what it takes to
shove a cartridge into the gapping maw of the damn beast.  Any pirating done
today in the U.S. would have to be hardware, and in that it would be such a
small amount as to not even make Nincrapo notice (again, not enough people out
there know how to copy a cartridge. Now, if it were a tape you could just dub
the damn thing, but it's not, it's a CARTRIDGE!!!!! sorry.)  If somehow a legal
verion of a cartridge copier was produced and sold in the U.S., it would spell
the end of Ninscumo. The only way I could see this happen is if they somehow
slipped it in under the "archival backup" law that let's us computerist make
backups of our software.  Look at the way it is now: You own a Ninblendo (sorry
, I'm running out of cute names), you own *maybe* three or four cartidges, and
two of them came with it. You spend your time and money renting a game from
local video store and sit at home infront of your T.V. playing for 36 hours
straight so you can finnish the game before you have to take it back. Meanwhile
 you miss going out and playing in the sun, talking to friends, having a life.
OR, instead of renting a game, you shell out the $70 for it only to find out
the new version on Mario Bros. is exatly the same as every other version. Sell
it back for a loss and your out around 40 bucks for a game you don't even have
anymore.
Now, let's look at life with a cartridge copier: You see the new Zelda XXV -
Attack of the Purple Headed Monsters.  You run down to the video store and rent
a copy, bring it home and play for a while.  You discover the game is *alot*
harder then you thought and it's going to take you all weekend to finnish. Just
then this girl you've been wanting to go out with for the past 6 months calls
you up and asks you if you want to see a movie.  You say "Sure" and slap the
the Zelda cart into the copier and make her a perminant resident of your now
growing software collection.  Now you can come back and play Zelda whenever you
want, and you don't have to keep paying rental fees. (By the way, you and the
girl get married, have a few kids, and you buy them each a brand new Amiga.
Don't you love happy endings?)

My somewhat longwinded point is that Ninlame-o will do everything it can to
keep a cartridge copier off the U.S. shelves.  Pirating carts would seem like
nothing to the Ninzombies, and it's not like their parents would care, just
less money they have to spend on a stupid game.  With the novelty of having to
finnish a game within 24 hours gone, most Nintendo (sorry, couldn't think of
any more) owners will start to realize they can't do anything with there game
machine and upgrade to a computer (sadly, an IBM most likely). Nintendo game
sales drop, Nintendo game machines stop selling, Nintendo looses lots of money
and dies the death of a scurvey dog.  I personaly like it.  Actually, if Amiga
'did' have a Nintendo emulator, they might end up selling a few more Amis to
the masses of Nintendoist who would like a real computer behind their game
machine. Hmmm... Interesting thought.


Chris "Slothman" Stoy    (o o)    | "Would we be so cavalier about
                          |=|     |  cutting down trees if they screamed?
INTERNET: stoy@endor.cs.psu.edu   |  We might, if they screamed all the
  BITNET: cms129@psuvm.psu.edu    |  time for no reason" Jack Handy