12th April 2004, 5:23 PM
I think he meant the NES compaired to the GB. He just hadn't added up the difference between "then" and "now" in a while. Common mistake. People don't realize how much time has passed so they say "a decade ago" even though it's actually like a decade and a half ago that the GB and NES were out at once.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)