Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Ninfan Errm... haha, funny, I guess?

@Zuljaras He did get banned, but he'll probably never learn to stop making such stupid comments about games he doesn't like. He's so absolutely against them, that he doesn't even take into account that there's millions of other gamers that DO like to play other types of games, but he just wants all of them to either be destroyed or not exist at all. It's a VERY extremist view, and highly unrealistic.

Couple that with the knowledge that he's also a teacher with a class full of young, impressionable kids, and you've got a mental image that's FAR scarier and far more worrisome than any of these 16+ games could ever be, in my opinion.

@Link-Hero Please remember to tag me in the comment when you do manage to trick him, because I would LOVE to laugh about it with you.

@RedderRugfish @Heavyarms55 Same here, still got all my consoles and handhelds in full working order, some with some minor cuts and bruises, but other than that, every handheld and console I've bought ever since the N64 is still doing fine, regardless of extensive use on nearly all of them, so maybe 10+ years is a bit overly optimistic in general, but it certainly isn't impossible.

For most people, I'd sooner expect peripherals such as controllers and so on to break down a couple of times over a generation, but a console is just sitting there, spinning discs, running cartridges, or running data off of some solid state memory or hard drive, so that should be able to last quite a while.

@ThanosReXXX Ha funny that ine I said that it is very dangerous to put someone to teach young children that has atated that he hates R rated stuff so much that he wanted some actress to die while banging and kicking on the TV screen.

I can now imagine 2 kids in class showing each other screenshots of Skyrim or Medievil or smth like that and then surprising kick in the face screaming "I hate ALL mature stuff!!!"

@Zuljaras Well, I'd sooner say it's sad rather than funny. And I'd hope that he would allow these kids to have their own opinions and tastes, instead of forcing his rather extreme sentiments on them.

@Heavyarms55 30 years ago everything you bought was expected to last 10-15 years without issue. 20+ years for big purchases (minimum!) And when parts broke, you just repaired them at any local repair shop. Any expectation otherwise is a reminder how utterly effed we are as a society that we've been remolded to accept planned-obsolescence garbage endlessly cranked out of sweatshop factories and into landfills in a brief 20 year span. We're not talking about some bygone pre-renaissance antiquity age. We're talking about the fudging 1980s and before!

Today, you have to buy commercial equipment to get it to last the normal span you used to expect consumer gear to last not that long ago.

@Link-Hero
"recommendations.Whenever I give a list of recommended games in a thread or to a someone on Nintendolife, there might be a chance I'll slip a game or two into the list to trick people like you. The best thing, you'll never know when I'll do it."

Ooh... You cannot trick me. 😜
I have observed tons of kids until Teen games from playasia and other websites, so they have been registered in my brain as the Allowed titles.

I also have Black list in my brain, the list of banned things. I have more Banned things than the Allowed things. Tons of hatred things than Favorite things.

I don't need to imagine the appearance, just only heard that name, i will instantly condemn those existence before even i see any images in my brain.
Nice try but before i got tricked, i have some secret ability to tell which is allowed games for me.

@Knuckles-Fajita what do you call yourself online if you are playing Mario kart 7 ??

@Ninfan Why?

@Knuckles-Fajita I have a mii on streetpass I met playing Mario kart 7 called knuckles is it you ??

@Ninfan I dont even own MK7

So, I guess my timing was a bit off, seeing as we're having the whole Nindies day today, but I decided to make a new forum topic concerning the Sega Genesis/Megadrive Mini, seeing as some game channels on YouTube have already received and tested a preview unit, and results are looking pretty damn good.

So, for all of you that are also interested in and/or feeling the love for Sega's 16-bit console, please do yourselves (and me) a favor and jump in...

@ThanosReXXX I'm sorry, did you just advertise your new mini consoles thread?

@Link-Hero Not to worry: we'll get enough hilarity from his written response already, so I don't really need to see any video of him.

@NEStalgia Yup, indeed I did. And not just to get views, but also to be able to share my enthusiasm about the system with other people that have pre-ordered it as well, or who are either interested and/or still on the fence, and for them these videos might be just the ticket.

On a side note: and I'm also kinda miffed that the effort I put into it, has resulted in more than 70 views but not a single comment, which kinda is the point of opening a thread in the first place...

@ThanosReXXX Look on the bright side, your thread has already generated more interest than the actual launch of the Sega Saturn! (ba-dum-tss)

There was 1539 games on game boy advance. How many were Europe or British releases ??

@Ninfan When I want to know stuff like that, I usually just look up a Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Advance_games

EDIT:
On this page, you'll find an infographic with all the numbers for all consoles except the Switch, seeing as that's not end of life yet:
https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/2016/07/05/nintendos-conso...
(The first picture is rather fuzzy, but if you scroll down, there's a clearer version, and also a couple of videos)

As you will be able to see, the actual total number of games for the GBA is considerably lower than the number you came up with, so that higher number probably contains a truckload of unofficial releases and/or unreleased titles or something, because otherwise, there could never be such a big difference.

@RedderRugfish That is really bizarre. I'd really love to know how that sort of glitch happens.

@NEStalgia Well I did not exist in the 1980s so what I know about it is entirely second hand knowledge. I was a kid in the 1990s, a teen in the 2000s. For me this is just how things are. It's not that I expect things to break down, it's just that if they last more than 5 years, that's about what I expect for electronics and appliances. There isn't anything I expect to last a decade or more without issue.

But your comparison about things breaking and being repaired invalidates my point. If they break and are repaired then they didn't last 10-20 years. You had to fix them. Although I do think it's a right shame (and probably intentional somewhat) that it is so much more difficult to repair modern devices and appliances. Older tech was much more straightforward to repair. I've always enjoyed watching all sorts of TV and YouTube about that sort of thing, restoration and repair.

@ThanosReXXX Interestingly the first Game Boy I owned still works almost like new, but the first Game Boy Advance has a nearly worn out A button. There is definitely some difference in build quality. But it is impossible for me to say if the GBA was built less durable or if it is variance in production or if something I did to the GBA at some point caused damage to the A button that took years to notice...

We all kinda have our own experiences with products but really, our own sample size is far to small to make general statements. I am sure someone out there bought a new NES, had something break in the first 6 months and just assumed Nintendo released a trash product.

@ThanosReXXX I think the 1500 games was some or alot of Japanese games were released in Japan and other games in America and europe so it adds up to 1500 games ( I got that number from a YouTube video that go'es through the games) that's a good site you told me . " nintendo enthusiast"

@Heavyarms55 it's possible you simply played more with the gba than with the gb