Post by Fatal Rewind on Nov 9, 2011 22:06:01 GMT -5
Thought I'd throw in something a bit different here, rather than doing upcoming and favorite games and such...
www.cracked.com/article_16824_the-6-most-retarded-gaming-consoles-ever-released.html
One of those "wow, they didn't know what they were talking about" write-ups there...
Probably only the Japanese console belongs on the list, with the early Pong one coming in a shaky second. Yeah, it was dumb to not have the game track your score, but there wasn't a whole lot else out at the time. And the Channel F shouldn't be there at all, due to, again, it being one of THE earliest systems out there, and literally the first cartridge-based system ever (beating out the Atari 2600 by a few months). I think the majority of people who were around back then or were raised on old consoles (such as the 2600) will tell you the games for it weren't bad. That's like going back in time to when cars were only around for 10 years and saying the Model T was retarded.
And of course, my beloved Vectrex doesn't belong there either. If you're going to rightfully b*tch about it some, what weighed it down the was slowdowns for several of the games, some of them not being very good (why they gave up on Clean Sweep with the robbers going in patterns after several screens to the point where they no longer chased you is beyond me), along with several of them not being that great unless you had a second player (Rip Off and Armor Attack). It was also a bit ironic saying it was a "retarded" system when they compared it to the 2600, which is like saying the 2600 sucked because it had crappy graphics. Apparently they didn't have the intellect to be able to figure out that having a Quadrascan Monitor System to add colors to the vectors would have made it very expensive.
And then there's the massive FAIL by trying to lie to make their point, by saying how poor Pole Position looked. One, I heard that it seems like it's in color due to it's great overlay, not looking much like the picture. Also, anyone with half a brain would scratch their head over the picture of it being in red and wondering how that could be if the Vectrex didn't have color. Because they swiped that picture from the prototype color Vectrex system. Wow, how monstrously stupid.
And with them trying to get into obscure systems, how come no mention of the Mattel Hyperscan? Yeah, a system that came out in the 1990s (I think) that had to load the menu to Mortal Kombat, you defeat the first guy, then you have to wait for it AGAIN just to load the next level?! Funny how they totally missed that; that's a much more "retarded" system than the Vectrex and the Channel F.
But then, this is coming from an entity known as Cracked, who 1) didn't used to rely on a lot of profanity to try to make articles humorous, 2) I could have sworn they used to do satire, not a bunch of lists that, again, with profanity, just turns them into a million of whiny bloggers that have been doing this for years already, and 3) they wouldn't even have existed it if wasn't for something known as Mad Magazine.
www.cracked.com/article_16824_the-6-most-retarded-gaming-consoles-ever-released.html
One of those "wow, they didn't know what they were talking about" write-ups there...
Probably only the Japanese console belongs on the list, with the early Pong one coming in a shaky second. Yeah, it was dumb to not have the game track your score, but there wasn't a whole lot else out at the time. And the Channel F shouldn't be there at all, due to, again, it being one of THE earliest systems out there, and literally the first cartridge-based system ever (beating out the Atari 2600 by a few months). I think the majority of people who were around back then or were raised on old consoles (such as the 2600) will tell you the games for it weren't bad. That's like going back in time to when cars were only around for 10 years and saying the Model T was retarded.
And of course, my beloved Vectrex doesn't belong there either. If you're going to rightfully b*tch about it some, what weighed it down the was slowdowns for several of the games, some of them not being very good (why they gave up on Clean Sweep with the robbers going in patterns after several screens to the point where they no longer chased you is beyond me), along with several of them not being that great unless you had a second player (Rip Off and Armor Attack). It was also a bit ironic saying it was a "retarded" system when they compared it to the 2600, which is like saying the 2600 sucked because it had crappy graphics. Apparently they didn't have the intellect to be able to figure out that having a Quadrascan Monitor System to add colors to the vectors would have made it very expensive.
And then there's the massive FAIL by trying to lie to make their point, by saying how poor Pole Position looked. One, I heard that it seems like it's in color due to it's great overlay, not looking much like the picture. Also, anyone with half a brain would scratch their head over the picture of it being in red and wondering how that could be if the Vectrex didn't have color. Because they swiped that picture from the prototype color Vectrex system. Wow, how monstrously stupid.
And with them trying to get into obscure systems, how come no mention of the Mattel Hyperscan? Yeah, a system that came out in the 1990s (I think) that had to load the menu to Mortal Kombat, you defeat the first guy, then you have to wait for it AGAIN just to load the next level?! Funny how they totally missed that; that's a much more "retarded" system than the Vectrex and the Channel F.
But then, this is coming from an entity known as Cracked, who 1) didn't used to rely on a lot of profanity to try to make articles humorous, 2) I could have sworn they used to do satire, not a bunch of lists that, again, with profanity, just turns them into a million of whiny bloggers that have been doing this for years already, and 3) they wouldn't even have existed it if wasn't for something known as Mad Magazine.
