I prenounce Game.com Dead. Fin
I. Stewart
> From: Gizmo <bra...@pacbell.net>
> Organization: GizWorks
> Newsgroups: alt.games.video.tiger.game-com
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:46:44 -0700
> Subject: I prenounce Game.com Dead. Fin
>
> Well, the time has come. Game.com us officialy dead. Period. Thats it.
> Game.com had a somewhat great run, if you think of all the HIT games
> they made, but sucked. They had Metal Gear Solid, Command and Conquer,
> Resident Evil, Sonic, and Duke Nukem to name a few. All were pretty bad,
> but WERE released. What is left of the game.com? 3 Different version,
> and 2 dozen games. Delays. Canning of games. Delays. Horriable Games,
> Faulty systems, Bad advertising, I can go on forever. Lets all say
> Goodbye to the handheld, Game.com. It was a long run (almost 3 years),
> but now has lost due to Tiger being a dumbass company, who I will NEVER
> purchase anything from again. Lets remember the good times...Umm...I
> like Wheel of Fortune...
The history of the system is filled with blunders, but the potential was
there. I have no idea what kind of headcases run Tiger, but they are
certainly worthy of commitment (and I don't mean marriage). They could've
had a strong position in the handheld market if they had lined up
third-party developers and advertised.
>
> Let us all post on our favorite times with Game.com, since this NG is
> dying
> fast...Slight...Wolfpaq...Phil...Stewart....Jon...Chris1.....Chris2.....Chris3
> ....All
> of us....
Question: What are we going to do with this newsgroup? Lots of off-topic
discussion? Invite James back and tease him? *shudder* rmgroup it?
>
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> Gizmo - The Gremlin
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>
I. Stewart
P.S. Call me Ian, please. I find it odd when people refer to me by my last
nameŠ
NeoTriax
>
>What? When were Metal Gear or C&C released?
>
Gizmo
Chris Pickett wrote:
> In article <B519365B.198B%don...@pacbell.net>, "I. Stewart"
> <don...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> > The history of the system is filled with blunders, but the potential was
> > there. I have no idea what kind of headcases run Tiger, but they are
> > certainly worthy of commitment (and I don't mean marriage). They could've
> > had a strong position in the handheld market if they had lined up
> > third-party developers and advertised.
> >
>
> Forget that. First, did the system have tremendous potential? Well, sure,
> what system truly doesn't? Of course, the third party development route is
> always critical to the success of any system, no argument there either.
>
> You know what really helped kill it: the screen. While the touch sensitive
> screen was a great idea, the SCREEN itself sucked. Too passive, too
> difficult to set the contrast properly, too difficult to get light onto,
> and the balance betwen contrast and light was too delicate, all because of
> the depth of the screen as a requirement of the touch screen.
>
> Basically: you can't play what you can't see.
> The original Game.Com was bad, the Game.Com Pocket Pro was better. The
> backlit Pocket Pro is the WORST! Games are blurry as hell, and it's hard
> to adjust the screen. There always seems to be massive lag between
> controller and movement. I try to be non-partial, but as an owner of the
> Game Boy(All flavors: color, original, pocket, light), Game Gear, Lynx and
> Lynx II, TGE, Neo Geo Pocket and Pocket Color, WonderSwan and Game.Com,
> the Game.Com scores extremely pitiful in the screen department. Hell, my
> Tamagotchi and Digimon had better screens and I got those items for $7.50
> each new.
>
> Tag onto that with the lack of third party development. Tiger has a
> reputation for those single game cheap-ass hand-held games. Personally, I
> can't stand them. Pretty much disposable garbage. Of course, you get what
> you pay for. With only those sorts of games as a reference, third-party
> developers aren't going to want to jump onto that bandwagon. Tiger, being
> new in this arena(portable gaming) also tends to make third-party
> developers nervous. The system was fairly doomed from the beginning. A
> year into the run after the re-design, things started to lookup but bombed
> again.
>
> If Tiger can get a screen such as the Game Boy Color or NeoGeo Pocket
> Color in regards to quality AND still add the touch screen AND keep it
> competive with those two systems, Tiger will have a winner. If they want
> to go the B&W route, Game Boy Pocket and Neo Geo Pocket B&W screens. The
> passive matrix is horrific at best.
>
> I'm not here to rag on the system, but there are so many technological
> flaws that it's just pathetic that a company as large as Tiger would make
> such a sub-par product and then expect it to take off like magic.
>
> Remember the initial commercials? They were insulting. "It plays hundreds
> of games". Ok, where are the games? Remember the staged Q&A? None of the
> questions where answered. "It plays more games than you have brain cells".
> Hmm, I think I have more than 50 brain cells. Even the advertising had too
> much negative associated with it. The system was obviously aimed at
> morons, if you were to get your only impression from the commercials
> alone.
>
> It's always sad when a system finally is declared dead. Game.Com was
> murdered. It could have been a great system, perhaps competing with
> GameBoy on a near even-scale. It shall never be. I saw a lot of hope for
> the system and a lot of potential. I guess the hybrid PDA/Game marketplace
> isn't ready for a poorly designed gaming system yet.
>
> > Question: What are we going to do with this newsgroup? Lots of off-topic
> > discussion? Invite James back and tease him? *shudder* rmgroup it?
> >
> What will happen is the spammers will take it over, rapidly flooding it
> with ads of any nature whatsoever until the group is rendered 100% useless
> for discussion of any sort.
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jz...@my-deja.com
they put all games on
INDEFINITE HOLD so i made a petition to get them made please sign it.Im
not sure if it will
work but i can try.Its a guestbook but i will let tiger see it.Its to
get C&C red alert,nba live,and
wcw whiplash made.So if any one would sign please do.The guset book is
at
http://www.TheGuestBook.com/egbook/208049.gbook
and my webpage is at
http://www.angelfire.com//biz6/gamecom/index.html
please tell people about it.
Thank you.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
Gizmo
Try spelling words right, use proper gRammEr, and try not to waste to much
time on this "petition", that will get a whole 5 signatures. You have a
better shot of getting Star Wars Episode One on DVD.
jz...@my-deja.com wrote:
--
Chris Chan
tell tiger to risk their entire careers to make some games that some snotty
children want so bad. WAKE UP! Tiger is not your mommy and most likely
wont listen to you whine. So pusha and be happy cause you won't get
anything else out of tiger!
~Chan~
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"Chris Chan" <sweet...@ureach.com> wrote:
Geez, Chan..You always seem to have your panties in a jam. I know the
kid who posted that was kinda stupid, but geez, you yell to freakin'
much. Take some PMS pills and some shut up juice and call your doctor in
the morning, bitchy.
Yeah, yeah, "SHUT UP, PAQ!"..Suck my ass.
~Wolfpaq, the almighty...
Chris Chan
can make life better for all of us. I am reconsidering my life after
reading your testamonials, and I will soon open a soup kitchen in your
honor. I have found a greater forum for input. thank you for opening my
eyes, Wolfpaq.
~Chan~
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