15th March 2005, 12:31 AM
Game.com...
Oh yeah! The system that, at first, I thought had online play due to the name. Reading the advertisement told me otherwise... Truly, a misleading name for a system... No matter, honestly I had just got a GBC at the time :D. What other systems have horribly misleading names? Oh yeah! The Nintendo 64! The system that was 64 bits of raw power! Turns out it was a 32-bit machine. Oh sure, the number 64 appeared SOMEWHERE on the system's spec sheet :D. I found it very odd that Nintendo was being renowned as a company that "didn't care about graphics and wouldn't use misleading advertising like SONY would!" while at the same time naming a system AFTER a technical spec that wasn't even accurate and, as we now know, wouldn't have even had a major impact on the system's capabilities anyway. Heck, half the games Nintendo made for the thing had 64 in the name. Nintendo doesn't care about graphics or mislead people... right...
Oh yeah! The system that, at first, I thought had online play due to the name. Reading the advertisement told me otherwise... Truly, a misleading name for a system... No matter, honestly I had just got a GBC at the time :D. What other systems have horribly misleading names? Oh yeah! The Nintendo 64! The system that was 64 bits of raw power! Turns out it was a 32-bit machine. Oh sure, the number 64 appeared SOMEWHERE on the system's spec sheet :D. I found it very odd that Nintendo was being renowned as a company that "didn't care about graphics and wouldn't use misleading advertising like SONY would!" while at the same time naming a system AFTER a technical spec that wasn't even accurate and, as we now know, wouldn't have even had a major impact on the system's capabilities anyway. Heck, half the games Nintendo made for the thing had 64 in the name. Nintendo doesn't care about graphics or mislead people... right...
"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)