Points of Interest – 8/31/09
- GamePro takes a look at what it calls “The 5 Best Console Wars.” Let me tell you something: there was only one console war. The rest have been spats, scuffles, maybe schoolyard brawls at best.
I might accept Game Boy versus Game Gear, but we all know that was just an extension of the whole Nintendo vs. SEGA thing that the Super NES vs. Genesis war was the core of.
- Speaking of the Genesis and the Game Boy, they aren’t the only ones turning 20 this year. There’s also the TurboGrafx-16.
As much as I was anti-SEGA at the time (due in large part to their anti-Nintendo propaganda), I never really held much of a grudge against the TG16. Perhaps it just never seemed like much of a threat.
- A recent “End of Day Thought” from GoNintendo asked could you play only Nintendo platforms for a full year?”
And while my answer is “most definitely yes,” I have no inclination to partake in this, as there are still games I would like to play on the other consoles. But if it helps, I spent almost the entire last generation with only a GameCube, renting an Xbox and PlayStation 2 during a brief period when I worked at Blockbuster.
But there is so much I have to play, so much I’ve yet to play, and that’s just on Wii and DS. If I wanted to go back through past platforms, I’m sure I could find more.
Still, I wonder: does playing Genesis on Virtual Console count as Nintendo?
- A little while back, The Consumerist posted an amusing comparison of the Pepsi logo’s evolution versus the Coca-Cola logo’s. It’s funny, but the Coke logo has changed a bit over time, though not nearly as drastically as Pepsi’s, I would wager to say.
Personally, I miss the old Pepsi logo with the name in between the circle halves. Somehow, it always looked like that one was smiling to me.
–LBD “Nytetrayn”