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- From: orb@alchemy.tn.cornell.edu (Randolph Turner)
- Subject: Re: Next generation handhelds
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:37:25 GMT
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- In article <C076yw.BwC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mphall@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (!bonk!) writes:
- > Seems like I can't escape this idiotic thread on this group.
- >
-
- Congratualations! It seems you've just helped to make it more "idiotic".
-
- > I didn't, whoever just said this, "invest" inthe goddamned game.
- >I bought it because it has cool games and it would take me (current
- >estimate) about three years to play through the whole library thanks to
- >my decidedly un-power playerish attitude toward a toy.
- >
-
- Perhaps you should forego your next game purchase in lieu of a good
- Dictionary. Here is a possible definition for the word "invest";
-
- "to spend or commit in the hope of future benefit" (Lexicon Webster
- Dictionary)
-
- It isn't difficult to see that this word clearly applies to any purchase
- in this market. You invest your money in a game cartridge in hopes that it
- will provide you with the benefit of entertainment for a reasonable
- period of time. If the game is too easy, or badly done, it would be
- considered a poor *investment*.
-
- Likewise, when you spend your hard-earned (at least in my case) money on
- a system, you would expect it to be supported for a reasonable amount of
- time afterward. This insures that "the whole library" will still be there
- for you to purchase "three years" later, and your "toy" will still be
- working to your benefit by keeping you entertained. This, of course, is
- only of concern to people who cannot afford to buy the entire library of
- games at the time of system purchase, and then buy each new one as it is
- released. Many people are not in this category.
-
-
- > These aren't PC's in any common sense. I will not lose money or
- >fail to keep up with a rapidly evolving business field if I own a Lynx
- >instead of a GameGear, or a Gameboy instead of either. They're all
-
- Nobody said they were PC's, or that you would lose anything more than the
- cost of the hardware, which can be substantial to some individuals.
-
- >pretty damn fun, considering my last "handheld" was a Merlin. (Remember
- >those? If the tic-tac-toe program hadn't been so stupid, I may still
- >have been playing with it.)
-
- You merely prove the point that some people are more easily entertained than
- others. Let's remember that everyone isn't like you and those other people may
- want to read this "idiotic thread". Merlin was fun when *I* was 13 (14 years
- ago???). However, it became rather uninteresting inside of week. I doubt
- something as primitive as that thing would hold the average young person's
- interest for half as long in this decade.
-
- Randy
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