29th June 2005, 5:50 PM
I find it way simpler and easier to just thumb through a mag for stuff, instead of having to run back and forth between the comp and the console, squinting through links that may or may not be vaguely related to what I'm looking for, trying to differentiate between reviews written by experienced gamers and those written by weirdos (I recently stumbled upon a particularly schizophrenic review for SMB2, on GameFaqs, in which a reviewer stated he removed points for having more than one playable character "because it's a Mario game"), encountering ads for hentai and otherwise cluttered pages, etc. If I'm traveling I can bring my NP to flip through the pages, my desktop not quite - and let's face it, laptops are just a whole other breed of trouble. The internet may have depth and speed of information on its side, but simplicity it does not.
About that cartoon with the two kids - the actual dialogue has a teenager painting alongside a younger kid, going "Purple sky?!" to which the kid responds "I already used my blue crayon for the water." which represents, I guess, the lack of complexity of Genesis graphics. Neither of the kids has a cap, btw, and their allegiance isn't expressly shown. The other cartoon makes fun of "blast processing" which was a big PR point for the Genesis, showing a display case with a bunch of "processed" items including "Speedo cap with splash processing", "Abacus with manual blast processing", "Original Pong with bounce processing", and "Shotgun blasted and processed! real imitation fur".
In all the time I got NP though that's the only time they dedicated actual pages to demeaning an opponent console - usually it was snarky one-liners sneaked into reviews or previews. They have five "Q&As" in all, including one that plays down Blast Processing, one that says "the Super FX isn't as powerful as the Sega CD but look, Sewer Shark STILL sucks real bad", one promoting state-of-the-art sports games (which was the area where Sega had the upper hand back then), and the last two promoting the SNES's superior graphics and speed. They even have a little chart comparing SNES and Genesis specs - NP, the fanboys of yesteryear.
ABF - I ordered vol. 44 soon after subscribing as it seemed like such an awesome issue. :P didn't get the extras though, which kinda sucked as there was a Mega Man VI insert I had been looking forward to. I also have the cartoon compilations for Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda, which I've been thinking about scanning and putting up on TC lately. I'll do it if I can get my scanner working and it's not too much of a bandwidth robber.
About that cartoon with the two kids - the actual dialogue has a teenager painting alongside a younger kid, going "Purple sky?!" to which the kid responds "I already used my blue crayon for the water." which represents, I guess, the lack of complexity of Genesis graphics. Neither of the kids has a cap, btw, and their allegiance isn't expressly shown. The other cartoon makes fun of "blast processing" which was a big PR point for the Genesis, showing a display case with a bunch of "processed" items including "Speedo cap with splash processing", "Abacus with manual blast processing", "Original Pong with bounce processing", and "Shotgun blasted and processed! real imitation fur".
In all the time I got NP though that's the only time they dedicated actual pages to demeaning an opponent console - usually it was snarky one-liners sneaked into reviews or previews. They have five "Q&As" in all, including one that plays down Blast Processing, one that says "the Super FX isn't as powerful as the Sega CD but look, Sewer Shark STILL sucks real bad", one promoting state-of-the-art sports games (which was the area where Sega had the upper hand back then), and the last two promoting the SNES's superior graphics and speed. They even have a little chart comparing SNES and Genesis specs - NP, the fanboys of yesteryear.
ABF - I ordered vol. 44 soon after subscribing as it seemed like such an awesome issue. :P didn't get the extras though, which kinda sucked as there was a Mega Man VI insert I had been looking forward to. I also have the cartoon compilations for Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda, which I've been thinking about scanning and putting up on TC lately. I'll do it if I can get my scanner working and it's not too much of a bandwidth robber.