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Re: Fired Nintendo Worker Comes Forward With An Account Of Their Dismissal

DoomTurtle

When I started working at the company I am at now, I was hired through an agency as a contract employee. Everyone else in the department that I worked with for 6 months was a full time employee hired directly by the company. That in no way made me an employee of the company in any sense. After my 6 months was up, they then made me an offer to work there as an employee, and at that time, I actually became an employee of the company.

It doesn't matter who he worked alongside or what his job duties were. The headline is more than inaccurate, it's completely wrong.

Re: Ouch! Nintendo Hacker Gary Bowser Hit With Additional $10 Million Fine

DoomTurtle

@Damo Piracy 100% impacts the video game business? As Frailbay30 was saying, the overall percentage of hackers amongst the entire user base is pretty small. And you think that every single game that they download illegally was a game they were actually going to purchase legitimately until they found this way to get them for free?

I agree that Nintendo should shut these places down, because no one should be getting these games for free. But I think to say that even 5% of piracy effects the video game business, let alone 100%, is extremely naive.

Re: The New Zelda Game & Watch Hides A Cool Little Secret

DoomTurtle

@mandlecreed Ryan got called out on his article from yesterday about the "error" in the Arcade Archives Super Mario Bros. game. The error from his article was fixed four days after its release 4 years ago, but he couldn't be bothered to look into it that deeply I guess.

Now it seems he can't even be bothered to read his own co-worker's reviews.

Re: The New Zelda Game & Watch Hides A Cool Little Secret

DoomTurtle

"Today sees the launch of Nintendo's latest Game & Watch system – yeah, we still can't believe we're saying this in 2021 either"

They released a Game & Watch in 2020 for a major franchise anniversary, but you really can't believe that they would do the same thing just 1 year later?

Re: How Well Do You Know The Koopalings?

DoomTurtle

There should have been questions about their names from the cartoon series. Supposedly when the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon was being made, the Koopalings didn't have official names yet, so the cartoon producers had to make them up for the cartoon.

That's how they got the names Cheatsy (Larry), Bully (Roy), Big Mouth (Morton), Kootie-Pie (Wendy), Kooky Von Koopa (Ludwig), Hip (Lemmy) and Hop (Iggy).

Re: Can You Match These Links To The Zelda Game They're From?

DoomTurtle

"The official artwork that accompanied the release of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link featured a hero with the same yellow band around his cap as the in the original NES game."

That's because it's the same Link. He was questing in this one to save a different Zelda, one that had been put to sleep long ago, and is the whole basis for why the series is called The Legend of Zelda.

Of course, Nintendo's "timeline" kind of messed up that whole story point.