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From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: For all N64 owners...
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 17:12:22 +0200
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> > They are
> > being greatly outsold in Japan.
> 
> Heh. The GameBoy is outselling the N64 in japan. Go figure.

Every system can get a hit in Japan. That doesn't say it's good or not.
I must say that I own 3 Gameboys and in my opinion that is the best
portable system ever made.


> >    It would appear that the 64DD will never be released in the U.S..
> 
I red it to.
> 
> I'd be almost as pissed off as the people who bought the virtual boy
> when it first came out. :)
> 
> >    Just curious, I don't own a N64... I waited awhile for it until I
> > read it was a cartridge-based system, and then I went with PSX, with
> > no regrets...

Nintend is putting to much unusefull stuff on the market now, like Sega
once did.
> 
> I have no regrets for being an N64 user.

It's a good system if you're pleased with a few games. Most of my
friends compared it with the PSX and got regrets.

> > it turned out I would've waited a VERY long time for it
> > to be released, they were someodd 16 months late on their original
> > release date.
> 
> The n64 should have been a CD system. It's as simple as that, it would
> have totaly destroyed the playstation if it hadn't been a cart system.

Nope, I don't agree. PSX is not only succesful due to the CD-system.
Sony also won becourse of the developer-support from sony and to sony
and because they keep themselves to the release dates. PSX was also the
first consle optimized for 3D.

> Nintendo has made some bad design flaws lately, their most obvious
> flaw being shown in their Virtual Boy, which could have possibly been
> a color system.

I was told it was the healt problem that made the VirtuaBoy flop. I
played it several times, but after half an hour I got very dizzy.

>Then came their CD-less N64, which did good but could
> have done better. Their new Color GameBoy I have a feeling will be a
> big hit and really help out Nintendo alot, but I think their GameBoy
> Camera will be a flop.

The camera IS a flop. The colour gameboy will only be a hit if it's also
can play the old games and when the battery keeps up log enough. The
geamgear also had problems with the battery-sucking.
What also keeps me from buying the gameboy games is the fact I have a
hard time finding out wich games can be linked. Normally those games
would have an icon, but since the supergameboy (colour) saw the light,
al the icons just show that it's an sbg-game, and it's guissing wich is
for 2 players. Sony did a good job with the icons as well.

DEnnis.