23rd September 2004, 11:12 PM
I remember the DKC tape I got in the mail. That's the only one I ever got though... Yeah, in retrospect that thing was clearly over the top blatent and mentally offensive marketting. However, since at the time I was a blind fanboy, I didn't realize it... Still, it did show me that game in action long before it came out, and pretty much sealed the deal. Shortly after that, I got that game for Christmas in a ridiculously large box filled with mostly packing foam, and the game.
"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)