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I'd say it's definately possible but you'll either need a higher end CPU or to limit the graphics a little compared to the PC.

Seems to me a lot of graphics adventures took advantage of the higher res Apple II graphics.

I take off for a month for family stuff and look how much I missed! WOW! It's looking great!

A New Old Stock ARCHON still sealed and looking like it's brand new. Before that was a Wizard of Wor cart. I'd been bidding on auctions for the latter game for 2 years before I finally picked one up for a price I was willing to pay.

I've run into annoying levels in a lot of games. I have to walk away and come back some time later to finish the game. In HALF-LIFE 2 and the follow up EPISODE ONE I had a lot of trouble with the giant bug (sand lion or whatever) king. Dumb luck in the first one finally got me knocked into a place where he couldn't get me and I just shot until he died. Episode One only took me around 20 hours to finish but around 6 were trying to defeat the same type of bug! I couldn't even figure out why something I'd done at least 20 times before killed the bug that time but none of the other times. Sadly, that wasn't the only frustrating part. It was way too short. Glad I waited to buy it for $10.

Progress?

It seemed to me that people embellished a bit when they interviewed them to make themselves look better.

You forgot "Purchased to sell on ebay". And no... I didn't purchase a Wii or a PS3 but if you have a look at ebay a huge number of people did.

I'm using an LCD monitor/TV but it doesn't sync to all old computers

You'll need a US compatible power adapter. Then you can look for video mods that would let you view the output on a monitor.

Well, the NES wasn't "launched" like other game machines. They just put it on display and sold it.

BB's? Ohhhhhhh..... and I had such high hopes for a major death toll! Ok... so I remember some rude people waiting for the 360 last year.

NES was test marketed in New York first and sold 50K units in that market for that holiday season according to the CNBC documentary.

EEEEEeeeeeeeewwwww... not even.

I think I have to agree... Sony isn't delivering nearly as many machines as originally promised. Link

I noticed the part about Atari and Nolan Bushnell was very different from the previous documentary I saw. I think there were errors in both. The earlier one had errors in the time-line and this one made Nolan look a lot better. Some of the articles I previously read said Warner had a lot of cleanup to do after Nolan left but there was no mention of it on this show. Warner definitely looks like they caused the death of Atari by not catering to the engineers and through the entire ET debacle but I think engineers would have left anyway. There was no excuse for ET. Absolutely no mention of the 5200 or 7800 that I noticed. Either one should have come years earlier to even be noticeable I guess.

Newb. And people that post the same stuff over and over because they have nothing else to do are just spambots.

Cart slut. Keep going and you could be a full blown cart whore. (Can I say that here?)

And the nob above thinks companies are stupid enough not to notice that the same people keep posting over and over. Some people seem to think that a barrage of posts will somehow get an FB3 produced this year even though the company probably has no budget because their parent company has serious problems. And if they were going to produce it they would have needed it ready over a month ago. Did anyone hear that it was ready or was development stopped?

It's easy to say that the way Atari was organized was responsible for their success because there's no proof one way or the other. You could also say that if Atari had been better organized and focused that they might have done even more but we'll never know. Just how many million were waisted on useless ideas that were 'creative' but unmarketable? Saying that Atari was superior because other companies tried to rush to market with crap is by no means proof of anything. The same thing happened with computers from lot's of companies that accepted the first design they saw just to get it on the market. It *is* possible to have a better organized company without stifling creativity. Besides, RCA and Emerson outlasted Atari. It doesn't do any good to be creative if you kill the company. Apple managed to survive and I doubt their engineers complain too much.

It's probably due to the shortage of the Blue Ray laser diodes. Sony was having some trouble getting them. I think it's kinda funny... after all, if they had gone with HD-DVD they wouldn't have any trouble with supply since it relies on existing technology. Instead, Sony pushed their own proprietary product at their own peril. I'll bet everyone that was offering pre-orders gets shorted.

I just hope I'm still young enough to enjoy it. :D

PAL operates at 50Hz and NTSC operates at 60Hz. That changes the timing of the screen updates and speed of games. PAL has more horizontal lines on the screen.

I think you'll see some small evolution from Microsoft but not a total revamp any time soon. I expect a version with lower power parts so it runs cooler, built in HD-DVD drive and maybe a new controller. Smaller size would also be welcome. The thing with the 360 is that the API will be carried over to future game machines and porting titles to new machines should be easy. I'm not sure the other systems were designed for that.

I think the Gamecube will be done within a year. The Wii is cheap enough they think it will sell instead. The PS2 has a couple years left just due to the cost of the PS3. Fail? Have you been watching people on here hype their favorite brand? Game fanatics will give them enough sales to attract game developers. XBOX360 is already pretty well established. Wii is cheap enough it should do well. The PS3 is the highest in performance and a cheap Blue Ray player. I don't see any of them being a flop. Given time, prices will drop and sales will go up.