I still used CD Walkmans in my childhood, I even remember that in order to save the condition of the original discs I did copies just to listen them into the player. Fun memories. But it is unquestionably better to carry an MP3 player (or something capable of reproducing these files) nowadays and I think it would have made me things easier too before.
For the floppies, I also remember to use them in my near end of childhood to save Word documents I was developing in the library but being frustrated for missing few kilobytes to store it, even when compressing. What I was doing was to use a third-party software to split files, and saving the most I could in the floppy, making the other parts invisible in the computer and hiding them in a way that no random user would delete them and then I would return the next day to pick the rest, ehehe. I was amazed when the USB Sticks started to become more common and cheaper and saw it had the equivalent of hundreds of floppies in such a small thing !
I remember having Cassette-based Walkman that was Jungle Book based
Back when USB Sticks were still new, a father 's friend wanted to help me with my computer and install drivers and he put setup files on USB. My PC back then didn't have USB port
I was also amazed to see such small device with memory more than CD-Rom
That's all well and good, but the point is that kids don't inherently respect old technology. It's just not something they should be expected to understand to begin with.
I too have fun memories of floppy disks, including bringing a self-extracting ZIP archive to my grandfather's house to install WinZip itself!
I miss those days.
Nintendo definitely won't be in crisis like before. Not only did MK8 rise the sales of Wii U but with all the great games, the sales won't drop down anymore. I am telling you, when SSB gets released, sales will go even more up, and SSB might be best sold game this year. If not, than MK 8 will be most sold for sure. I mean, MK Wii sold 35.53 million. I expect MK 8 to eventually reach that and maybe surpass it too.
I think that the Wii U has got two problems that can explain the lack of sales: lack of AAA titles and retail price. Now the AAA are gradually popping up (it still needs Zelda though) but I think Nintendo should do a pricing tweak.
They are but I still believe that many people stay away from the Wii U due to its retail cost. You have the Premium Pack for 300€ while PS4 is out for 400€: what do you think people will prefer? They will obviously prefer to give extra 100€ to have the fancy Sony console. I think Nintendo would benefit more if it was doing at least a 50€ or 100€ of price cut. Buyers would think twice.
OldClassicGamer wrote:The Wii U controller looks way more fancy than PS4 controller
Agreed. The only other console which featured a display on the controller, which I can think of, is the Dreamcast. It's a shame that the Dreamcast failed! I hope the Wii U won't fail too!
A brand new Smash Bros fighter is going to be revealed on Monday. However, instead of doing it through something like a Nintendo Direct, they will be streaming a 3 minute reveal trailer on the official site. The stream's player is already up on the site:
OldClassicGamer wrote:Rayman or Crash Bandicoot please. If they include some of them, my life would be complete.
....I....wouldn't get your hopes up.
I looked back at previous trailers, and Palutena's was exactly 3 minutes (with an extra second). Rosalina's was not far off, and Greninja's was just over two minutes and a half. Those were most noticeably the longest trailers.
I expect it to be a character from an already represented franchise, like Zelda. Or maybe the Metroid fans will finally get Ridley.
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