Topic: NINTENDO FANBOYS

[Koopa Troopa]

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In Wind Waker, there's a tribute to Nintendo fanboys. If you talk to the guy who runs the ________ Gallery (don't want to spoil it for ya), he says something like:

"Our membership has gotten low as of late. People are leaving because the ________ Gallery doesn't have all the bells and whistles as some others do. But we've got a special group of hardcore, devoted gallery members, who will always stick with us. And its those kind of people that we stick around for."

That was the coolest! I stood up, and yelled "Hell yes!", then proceeded to do a little dance.  

[rodtod]

heheh, Nintendo rocks. I bet when the Wind Waker dev team came up with the whole gallery feature, Miyamoto was probably the one who wanted to make it be a tribute to Nintendo's gaming loyalists. or maybe the PR department was just being nice.

[Grey Ninja]

If I ever get to meet Miyamoto-sama in person, I will ask him.    I am seriously impressed by that.

[Nik Jam]

I'm not a Nintendo fanboy, just a Mario and Zelda one, one of the few people that thinks Sunshine, Majora's Mask and Wind Waker deserved all their praise from the press.

[The Doc]

Let me start out by saying that I am not a Nintendo fanboy, however that goes without saying that Nintendo is indeed my console of choice out of all the next generation systems. I know that last statement might have contridicted itself so let me clarify it. I own two GameCube's (indigo and platium) and I also own an Xbox and although I own one, I plan to sell it becuase I am not unhappy with it. It was one of those situations where I thought I would like it and in the end, I did not. I am one of those Nintendo fans that is open minded toward other consoles and will usually give of them a try before I decide that I do not like the console or no longer have a need or interest in it. I have no plans on buying a PS2 right now, as I will put my time and money in to my GameCube and GBA SP. All in all, If you love Nintendo like I do, but you wish to own a second console, do not be afraid to try a PS2 or an Xbox and do not bash them until you have tried them.

The Doc

[NWR_Lindy]

I think one of the reasons why Nintendo fanboys seem to be more open to other systems is that many of them have been fans since way back.  They've seen systems come and go and know that good games come out all over the place, not just on Nintendo platforms.

I'm not a fanboy at all - I just love the video game industry.  But I do favor Nintendo systems over others...I'll always buy a Nintendo system the day it comes out, but Sony or Microsoft will have to give me a darn good reason to pick up their console or I'll ignore it for the most part.

silks

[Hostile Creation]

Same here.  I've considered buying and Xbox or PS2, but then I just thought "why?"  There's no real reason that I want either of those systems.  Sure, I play them when visiting friends or whatnot, but there's no reason for me to own one.  The ______ Gallery made me smile, and yesterday night I hooked my N64 back up for the first time in years (forgot how good it was), at the request of a young friend of mine.  While we were playing he complained that he only had a Playstation and a Playstation 2, and that N64 had all the good games.  I nearly cried with joy.  Take that, doubters!

[Syl]

I am not a "fanboy" I am a nintendo FAN,

I love nintendo because they make the best games.  I rate games based on how much fun i had with them, good story might integrate into that, pretty graphics less so.  Its the overall experience to see how much the game impresses me.

Metroid Prime impressed me.  
Final Fantasy X didn't.
Chrono Trigger Impressed me.
Metal Gear Solid 2, Didn't.

Its simple things like that that make see that nintendo is truly my favorite devoloper.  Miyamoto has a way... To make things seem fun, he somehow has "perfect" puzzle's, right when they get aggrivating, you figure it out.  and a big smile comes across your face.  a HUGE feeling of accomplishment.  Thats what i play games for, For that feeling of accomplishment.  Its just a great feeling knowing that you did it yourself.

My top 2 favorite games of all time are
Metroid Prime
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

now, those are 2 completely different games to most people, different universes, one is 2d, one is 3d.  Both are great games, incredibly fun.  But, there are things that are similar throughout them, like any other Miyamoto game, they have the same feeling of accomplishment throughout them.

I still currently only own nintendo Systems, even though I love sega, and Square, I've been able to complete most Square games on friends systems, (and I own Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, and FF3(6) for SNES) by going over there quite a bit in the course of a week or so.  The only game that made me seriously consider buying a PS2 happened to be DDR.  for reasons i still don't understand... (Luckily, a friend of mine that lives closeby bought DDR with 2 Redoctane ignition pads, i just go over there now.

The type of people I dislike are the unknowledged.  They take popular opinion too far without even having any base behind it.  I was talking to a friend of mine a few days ago, She said that gamecube sucked.  When i mentioned nintendo games, she said, and i quote "Nintendo doesn't make any games".  Its the people that try to argue without any knowledge of what theyre arguing that piss me off.  I've played my fair Share of PS2 and Xbox games, and some of them are rather good, but nothing of nintendo quality.
(Note: since then, i convinced her sister to buy a gamecube and She's enjoying the hell outa metroid prime, and asked me if TWW was any good, score!)

I am a nintendo Fan, "Fanboy" maybe, I love nintendo because they make the best games, and I'm going to stick with nintendo, because i know they will ALWAYS make the best games.

[Uncle Rich AiAi]

the loyal nintendo fanbase is the reason why i believe nintendo will always be the last one standing in the console war!

and there is nothing wrong with being a fanboy, unless you make silly remarks about sony and MS.

i'm a nintendo and sega fanboy.  can't i be both?

[PIAC]

noe cuz segay is teh sux

syl_aran pretty much summed up my feelings to a T,
i agree the most annoying thing about console fans are the ones who pick up a tiny bit of knowledge and then try and flaunt that like they know everything and give them and their particular console a terrible image (for example, most xbawx owners i know... wouldn't want to stay in the room with them for 2 seconds after you mention the gh3ycube)  

[OldMan Nintendo]

I've never purchased any systems that were made by anyone other than Nintendo, so in that respect you could call me a fanboy.  However, I play games across all consoles (and the PC) and keep myself well-informed on the business front of the gaming industry, which is just as important as getting four lines cleared at the same time in Tetris.  

At this point in my life I can now say without thinking twice that I am a hardcore gamer, the next evolutionary step for most fanboys everywhere.  

I say that because I remember distinctly when I was in elementary school and even most of high school, where I always promoted Nintendo systems and shot down the others, especially Sega!  I was definately a fanboy back then.  As time goes on, however, you learn more and more about what goes on in the gaming industry (if you are curious enough, like I was) and you learn that there is more than just one system, but all of em, and how they impact each other and, more importantly, how they all keep the games flowing and not grind the industry to a halt.

You move on from a fanboy when you decide to open up to the other possibilities that are available from other systems.  That doesn't mean that you should go out and buy a PS2 and a XBox, it means that you are open-minded enough to realize that they have their perks, too, and that they aren't crap systems.  If you do say things like that, which I have done before (hey, I'm honest about it!), back your words with evidence instead of just saying stuff like, "Man, the GameCube ROCKS and everything else SUCKS!" over and over again.

It's been written by Darwin back in the day, and it applies here, too!  Fanboys evolve into hardcore gamers if circumstances allow!

[Grey Ninja]

OldMan Nintendo... are you me?  Or am I you?  It's just like you have summed up a great deal of my history and philosophy in your post.  *claps*  Well done.

I still don't see what there is to like about Xbox though.  I am not simply being biased.  I have looked for something to like about it, and I find absolutely nothing.  It's got a couple of good games, but no system sellers IMO.

[OldMan Nintendo]

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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
OldMan Nintendo... are you me?  Or am I you?  It's just like you have summed up a great deal of my history and philosophy in your post.  *claps*  Well done.

I still don't see what there is to like about Xbox though.  I am not simply being biased.  I have looked for something to like about it, and I find absolutely nothing.  It's got a couple of good games, but no system sellers IMO.

Grey Ninja, we are what many fanboys have become.  

And yes, I have to agree with you that the XBox isn't that appealing.  Hey, try this the next time you find a XBox fanboy: ask him to list off five kick-ass games for the XBox that is not Halo.

I'm not going to elaborate on that because that'll kill this thread, but I will say this: I can list off ten GameCube games that kick ass...

[ThePerm]

 Please note my memory moves in circles..where one time seems like the other.....Sometimes i don't do the dishes one day because I  thought i juist did them. I remember most everything. But not chronologically.

  ah my gaming history. As a young boy i remember the mid to late 80's Teddy roxbin, my little pony's cabbage patch kids, GI joe, transformers, and slimeballs. I lived on a street called Euclid(most likely named after the philosopher) and in my backyeeard there was a patch of land. It had some trees in it and i used to play in th backyard in the mud that would accumulate near the carporch. The year of 3 yes was quite nice. Eating watermelons and such and playing with my slimeballs baseball bat and my buble lawnmower and my toy cars. I guess the ealiest thing i can equate to gaming that i was exposed to was a simon says flash toy. You know the type of toy that makes a tone and lights up and your upposed to memorise the tones and hit the buttons in the right order. Quite the cool little electronic game.
 My second experinece with games I was probably about 4-5. I had this freind named David, and he had a brother named mark and anotehr brother which i forget his name. Their house is very vague to me. I dont remember the inside of i. I just remember the playroom. They had taken a garage and they had placed a carpet in the inside and put little cabnets for toy storage and stuff and at the front of the playroom where the garage door used to open they had a couch and a tv. The tv touched the wall and the couch was parrallel to the tv. Next to the tv was a little grey box. I had no idea what it was. It wasnt very colorful and it didn't interest me much. We played with our toys for a little bit and then after a while Davids mom came in and told us to put our toys away. We did so and we found something else to do. Someone turned on the tv and we sat on the couch. Someone turned on the grey box. And soemone turned off the lights. A screen popped up with a little man in suspenders and a duck at the bottom. I couldn't read yet so i was just told that the  little man was mario. I never saw a video game before. I guess they blazed throught the first level so fast because i only remember the underworld level from my encounter. My brother was there and he too thought it was cool. After seeing the little man get mushrooms and flowers and jump and play with turtles we needed an Intenda.
  So for a years we begged for the system and we finally recieved(i beleive super nintendo came out shortly after we got our original) At the same time my dad got a commadore 64. My memory is a little fuzzy because i remember him having a computer before we lived in the house we lived in at the time.So we got our little grey box and we had another box that had pacman and q*bert on it and some wizard game with bandaids or something. We moved aroudn a bit. We kept on finding nicer houses in our nice southern town. Somehow the commadore 64 got put away. It was obselete and wasnt' compatable with anything. We were living in a house in the country(lets say ninja turtles and other things happened inbetween this period)
and my dad got this computer called a 386...whci we later upgraded to a 486. There were reallyno games for the computer. A port of castelvania and Rescue rangers. This computer had a 5 inch floppy drive and a new 3.5 inch floppy drive. Anyways i used a program called print shop and i would make little scens wit hthe various clip art the had in its archive. Not a game but fun. Anyways we got windows and i played with pain(paint is for kids Aoi Tsuki..)paint was different in Windows 3.1. There was only 16 colors the tools were set up differently(basically i had to relearn it in win95 it has been reprogramed a few times) anyways i started to get to the point where i could make some really cool looking pictures about the time congo was about to come out(much later).
   When i was in 4rth grade mortal kombat came out and was all awesome. I played that game in the arcade all the time. Id go to this place called the fun factory and play it and the xmen arace game(roxorz!)
Also at hte same time shareware was popular and all the rage was doom. Doom was cool. Demons and evil, guns and blood. The game type was new...3d with a gun. It was great. On the playground we talked about doom and mortal kombat nad street fighter and all sorts of things. My brother had a sega genisis and he had sonic and knuckles and a bunch of other games.
   anyways we got a cd rom for our ocmputer and madogg macgee and mario is missing(the pc version is way better...though its still an educaction game)and i played alot of m.u.d.s like legend of the red dragon and usurper(my firstonline experiences) Eventually we moved to arizona. And aout 7th grade since iwas so isolated in our apartment and it was so hot there was nothing to do with out getting heat strokee, i got into gaming. I blazed through games i found impossable to beat. I beat games in this order.  Mario is missing, mario bros, mario bros 3. i tried to beat hook bu the damn system kept dying...though i could proabably beat it if i really tried now..i made a patch of the game and turned peter pan into luigi. That same year we moved from that apartment to the houser i live now for the last 6-7 years.
  N64, that experience in the apartment where i had nothing but me and mario to entertain myself left an impression on me. Anyways i visited toys r us and saw soemthing i thought was crazy. Mario in 3d! OMFG!
The person hwo palyed last had lowered the water level..the game was bigger then i remember...the outside level is way different theni remember..i think when i saw it i was so shocked by this new 3d world that i justleft remembering it differently. Anyways the person had lowered the waterlevel outside and had left mario in the castle on the basement floor next to the door that leads out. Anyways i wnet ousided and i jumped in the water and started swimmign towards the islan....anyways..yeah i stopped playign after a while i had to go.
anyways im sure you guys had similar esperiences with goldeneye and zerlda so i will nto ellaborate.

[Grey Ninja]

That was actually a very interesting story Perm.  It's completely unlike my own, and you are obviously quite a bit younger than me, but it's interesting to hear the story of the rise of video games from a different perspective.

[PIAC]

ehehehe sounds somewhat like me, my cousin had a "intendo" that i loved, namely super mario 3.  ooh and duck hunt!

[ThePerm]

actually how old are you grey ninja?

[Grey Ninja]

I'll be 22 in July.  

[ThePerm]

2 1/2 years difference

[rodtod]

heheh, counting half years are we?

I'll be 18 in 6 days (word) and indeed I'm starting to see videogames in a whole new perspective. My friends and I no longer talk about how great some game is and how everyone should buy it, or how many more polygons one system can render over another. Instead, we talk about the games and systems we are currently playing, and spend lots of times just crashing at X person's house to play game Y.

My favorite system is the Nintendo Gamecube, but I enjoy playing PS2 and Xbox as well. Oh, and Old Man Nintendo, that was an odd thing to say, saying that without Halo an Xbox fanboy couldn't list 5 kick-ass games. Why exclude Halo?

Anyhow, I'm currently playing Xenosaga (PS2), Pokémon Sapphire (GBA), PSO (Xbox), Halo (Xbox) and Pikmin (GCN). The way I see it, play games that are fun- it doesn't matter the system or the genre, as long as it's something that interests you.

[ThePerm]

july 1981 to march 1984... 2 years 9 months to be precise. Ok were off topic. Fanboy IS ME TIS TRUTH OR SOMETHING.

i don't know i wasnt really a hardcore nintendo gamer till early 96. I had Nintendo but my brother would never let me play it...it was in his room and he owned all the games. We never got a Super Nintendo(probably because we got NES so late in its life span) but we got a Sega Genisis. I love Sonic, but seriously...Sonic Team really does move in  a different dirrection as the rest of the company.

[rodtod]

that reminds me, originally my brother and I were each going to get our own Gamecubes. but then we decided not to...resulting in me getting a lot less game time than I should

speaking of Nintendo fanboys, who's the biggest fanboy of them all?

[oohhboy]

Those guys who won the PGC competition and Billy and co?

[PIAC]

ehehe whos the biggest fanboy, on the whole the fanboy spiecies is has a very competative nature, so determining the most fanboyish out of them would indeed be a long and arduous task.


btw i r teh sux00r @ spelting

[Grey Ninja]

rodtod, in my experience, an Xbox fanboy asked that question will give this list.
1) Halo
2) Halo
3) Halo
4) Halo
5) Halo
It sounds completely retarded, but 3 times out of 5, that's the answer I get.  It makes perfect sense to exclude Halo.  

Perm, you are still a young pup.  When you hit 20, then you will feel true age.  

And by the way, I am Nintendo's biggest fanboy.  I couldn't prove it this year, but next year I am pulling out all the stops if this contest is on again.  I will win if it's the last thing I ever do.  My pride is seriously hurt.