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This sounds potentially interesting, but the website is so vague it's criminal. I have absolutely no idea what the "console gaming experience of the 1990s" was
by lproven 1y ago
This sounds potentially interesting, but the website is so vague it's criminal.
I have absolutely no idea what the "console gaming experience of the 1990s" was. What console? What experience?
I've only owned 3 games consoles in my life.
An original XBox, a gift from a friend which I immediately hacked to be an XBox Media Centre and used daily for years but never played a game on again.
A PS2.
And now a Wii for my kid.
For any website or any publicity material it is always a mistake to rely on shared experience, because whatever your experience, there are billions of people out there who do not share it.
So don't rely on it. Say what your product is and does and how it does it.
This page does not.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago[flagged]
- lproven 1y agoShe is 5. I bought it less than 2Y ago. If you don't understand something then it is not OK to blame the mental faculties of the author.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago[flagged]
- lproven 1y ago> I didn’t even imply anything of that nature. Yes you did. >> maybe you got mixed up and you’re referring to your kid from a long time ago Accusing me of senility is not merely ad hominem it's also extremely rude. Learn to do better.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoThat’s your twisted opinion. I don’t know your situation. The Wii is really old and obsolete. Perhaps you have lots of kids and you don’t have any kids at the moment. The rules here even say it, you need to be charitable and assume the most positive meaning of a phrase. You need to learn to talk with basic courtesy. It’s not an assumption when I say this: you have issues.
- elktown 1y ago> You need to learn to talk with basic courtesy. It’s not an assumption when I say this: you have issues. Talk about projection. Sorry, but this kind of gaslighting just pisses me off. You're entire comment history is that of being incredible obnoxious to everyone and and its screaming "I have issues". Then you write that? What an arse.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoThanks for stalking me like a creeper. I think that act alone is signal you have the most issues. I'm not going to stalk your comment history but I wouldn't be surprised if you do shit like this on the regular. Most people just don't have time to stalk someones comment history... especially if the thread didn't have to anything to DO with them. Can you not stalk me and not insult me to my face? also please mind your own business.
- elktown 1y agoWhat an entirely expected style of response. Of course it's the due diligence itself that's the problem, not what it discovers. How can someone have the nerve to do that to you! > I wouldn't be surprised if you do shit like this on the regular. I certainly do, and I recommend everyone to do it. It's quick and requires much less time and effort than to accidentally be drawn in to a barren discussion with - in a broad sense - the proverbial village idiot.
- ninetyninenine 1y ago
- carra 1y agoNot saying you are wrong about that, but if you don't know about 90s console gaming and you only used the XBox as media center you are likely not the target audience for this project anyway.
- mulletbum 1y agoI have to say, this is not targeted at you. I know exactly what a 1990s gaming experience is like and xbox is the console that killed it completely.
- lproven 1y agoMy point is general. That's what I was talking about. Don't assume -- especially when writing. Always explain because people outside your target audience will read what you write and they may go on to buy a million of your product, or give you a job, or something.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoSuggestion: Stop giving instructions to people and talking down to them, people generally don't like this.
- ramon156 1y agoNever assume the reader knows what you're talking about, that's bad writing.
- MithrilTuxedo 1y agoIt really depends on the context. Everyone's bandwidth would be saturated if no one assumed their reader knew what they were talking about, but assumption is a form of lossy compression that allows both miscommunication and misunderstanding.
- bondarchuk 1y agoCould one be forgiven for assuming on the internet that people know what "console gaming" or "the 1990s" are? I expected the worst reading this comment thread before clicking TFA but it's really very straightforward.
- lproven 1y agoWell of course I know. But I never owned a games console in the 1990s, I've never played a game on a 1990s console, so I have no clue what aspect of the experience is being captured or not.
- cornstalks 1y agoThe page does say it, though it might be easy to overlook if you don't understand the significance of the statements: > Zero setup > Direct to gameplay > Distraction-free gaming > Use SD cards or other external media as carts The 90s gaming console experience was: 1. Grab your game cartridge. 2. Insert cartridge into console. 3. Turn on console. 4. Play the game. There are no steps between 3 and 4. The console booted directly into the game. It was fast and there was no messing with multimedia experience stuff (like Xbox or PS later introduced). I have no experience with Kazeta but this is what I would expect from its homepage.
- flufluflufluffy 1y agoI think it’s confusing particularly because it pushes the whole “zero setup” thing, then when you go to the docs to figure out what the heck the thing is it describes a long list of things one would need to do in order to set up a working physical machine running Kazeta and the cartridges etc... The website itself reads like it’s an app you can just download and run, while at the same time hinting that you’re gonna need to do a fair amount of physical stuff without really explaining the whole thing.
- bondarchuk 1y agoThe 2nd and 3rd words on the page are "operating system", it is obvious that an operating system must be installed before it can be used.
- dan353hehe 1y agoI got a patch: @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ The 90s gaming console experience was: 1. Grab your game cartridge. +1.5. Blow into the cartridge slot for some reason to make the game boot on the first try. But in reality you are slowly destroying the contacts and making the problem worse. + 2. Insert cartridge into console. 3. Turn on console. Fixed it. Honestly though, the experience of just turning it on and being in game was great. I had access to an NES and an SNES growing up and have a lot of great memories playing games with friends.
- philistine 1y agoSimple mathematics will help you here. All three consoles you mention all came out after 2000, which means this is not what the project is trying to replicate.
- tonyhart7 1y ago[flagged]
- ZenoArrow 1y agoIt's not nostalgia for a game, it's wanting to get back to plug-and-play gaming experiences. With consoles in the 70s/80s/90s, when you put a game into the console and turned it on, you launched directly into the game. That immediacy is lost when you end up with endless software updates and having to launch games from a menu. If you didn't live through that time I can understand why you aren't nostalgic for it.
- tonyhart7 1y agoYes its called modernization are you ignoring the fact that physical games sales literally in spiral downward trend for decades??? people not buy it anymore, that's why company didnt produce that any of that You may argue that company has a hand with it but its just down to culture, japan still buying an cd/blueray for physical music and games etc their industry still thriving despite so called "old tech", people choose to do that
- ZenoArrow 1y agoMost modern physical games don't give the full benefits I'm talking about, as you still have to install them and update them. I'm talking about games where the only thing you need to do is plug them in to a console and start gaming.