Topic: Nintendo fans reach 'cult' status

[PIAC]

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Originally posted by: Djunknown
Oh, PIAC, that's one pimpin' room you got there, all it needs is a fridge and a bathroom and you have little need to see the light of day...

look again, next to my PC and under my 2nd tv, it has a Rayman and Veiwtiful Joe poster on it, that would be my fridge and the bathroom is just up the... hall i guess (basically my room is a giant empty space on the bottom floor of my house) also all my windows are blocked up with sheets and tarpolans, no sunlight for me (too much glare)

so basically my room is a shrine to nintendo, allthough i have seen alot better rooms, i do my part. i do want a giant pirate flag though....

oh yeah im 18

[Fish]

This thread makes feel proud for supporting Nintendo all these years. I agree with this thread totally.

But it also make me sad, my Lord of the Rings fanboy(Yep, I am both Nintendo and LOTR fanatic) That this point is like ending in The Two Towers(Movie ending, although I think they screwed it up, if they would have had Shelob in TT, they would have had the best cliffhanger ending ever) That this is like the point where Nintendo fans(Frodo and Sam) Talk about great tales, the past and stuff, while the rest of the world is swarmed with orcs and evil.

"There never was much hope, just a fools hope"

And I have had pretty much all Nintendo consoles, expect original GB and GB Pocket. And some Game & Watch games. Also, what proves to me Nintendo systems offer much joy, is my older brother. He bought an PS1, and played it now and then, but always came  to play Goldeneye or Mario Kart with me on my N64, and still claimed "Nintendo is for kids". Also, he bought and PS2, and few months later he had 5 games on it, and then sold it. meanwhile I have 17 games for 'Cube, and probably about 25 before end of the year.

And I just turned 16 today.

[Plugabugz]

I fully agree with everything here. I'm 17.

I have a slightly different situation. Where I've bought/pre-ordered exclusive games - Mario Kart: Double Dash, F-Zero GX, Super Monkey Ball 1/2, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime, Rogue Leader -  All of my friends have bought largely multi-platform titles like Nightfire, various American sports games and others I can't remember.

I like what nintendo has, and I like it's entertainment value. Enough said!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FISH!!!

[Uglydot]

I agree as well.  Though the comment above about the GT games on ps2 I don't agree with.  While I don't like them, I have played them, and a LOT of work and care looks like it went into those games.  I think they get nocked by N fans a lot just because it is easy; they are very popular.  I enjoy tweaking computer hardware, some like teaking cars, and a game were you can race cars that you will never be able to work on in real life is great for people with that hobby.  

[mouse_clicker]

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Hmmm... Heaven forbid there be another gamecrash; that's the last thing we need.

Actually, it might be the best thing to happen to the industry since the LAST crash. As much as I dislike AgentSeven, he is right that Atari screwed home videogames when they sold themself and flooding the market with so many games, the public just gave up. Nintendo came along and completely revived the industry single handed and created a glory age of gaming. And as much as I like my PS2, AgentSeven is right again that Sony is doing exactly what Atari did and another gaming crash is loomnig on the horizon. Yet what a crash entails is not the death of videogaming (I can't fathom such a thing happening) but rather a weeding out of the bad while the good stick around. The industry will again be revived, perhaps by Nintendo, and we will once again have a glory age of gaming.

[Bill Aurion]

We can compare the gaming industry to a species of animals.  The population grows and grows until it reaches a ceiling, the point where there aren't enough resources to support that group.  As a result, many die and they reach their floor.  The population then grows again until it reaches the ceiling.  Like such, there will be a ceiling that the videogaming industry will hit, and that's the point where there are more games on the market then people will buy.

"Survival of the fittest..."

[mouse_clicker]

Fish: I'm 20 times a bigger LotR fanboy than you'll ever be. PJ said the reason they pushed Shelob into the next movie was because they didn't want Return of the King to be 3 hours of Frodo and Sam going up a mountain (they're cutting out the Scouring of the Shire ). The only problem I had with the TTT movie was how quickly Faramir succumbed to the Ring while in the book he resisted very well.

Anway, I don't want to get this thread off topic, so forget I said any of this. I do agree with Fish's analogy.

[Bill Aurion]

I would much rather have a "The Hobbit" movie...It was so much better than the Lord of the Rings trilogy

[mouse_clicker]

Fish: I'm 20 times a bigger LotR fanboy than you'll ever be. PJ said the reason they pushed Shelob into the next movie was because they didn't want Return of the King to be 3 hours of Frodo and Sam going up a mountain (they're cutting out the Scouring of the Shire ). The only problem I had with the TTT movie was how quickly Faramir succumbed to the Ring while in the book he resisted very well.

Anway, I don't want to get this thread off topic, so forget I said any of this. I do agree with Fish's analogy.

[Bill Aurion]

Don't tell me you broke my 13-min double post record too!?  grrrr....

[mouse_clicker]

I didn't realise I had even double posted. O_O

And LotR was MUCH better than The Hobbit- the Hobbit's still better than everything else, but it was also more of a kid's story and didn't delve near as deep into the lore of Middle Earth as LotR did.

[Termin8Anakin]

Well, like the countless other thread asking who you are and how you got hooked (not that i don't mind ), I have to say that I am an 18 year old Asian Leo, got hooked on NIntendo from the NES, first console owned was SNES, got jealous of sister when she got a clear Game Boy for her birthday back in 1994, so I got Super Mario Land 2 for my birthday, sold my SNES to get a Gold Controller N64 pack with Mario 64. In 1999, my N64 got stolen with my three games (Mario 64, OoT and Rogue Squadron), and borrowed my uncle's PlayStation for a month before my parents bought me a second hand one with three games (Mario 64, MArio Kart and Goldeneye), built up N64 game library and now currently have 9 games.
Bought Rogue Leader for Christmas last year cause it was only AUS$29. BOught my Gamecube in January this year, and now have 9 games.
Will buy a further 6 games, but have no money.
Still have my N64.

And such is the watered down version of the story of my gaming life with Nintendo!

[Termin8Anakin]

Well, like the countless other thread asking who you are and how you got hooked (not that i don't mind ), I have to say that I am an 18 year old Asian Leo, got hooked on NIntendo from the NES, first console owned was SNES, got jealous of sister when she got a clear Game Boy for her birthday back in 1994, so I got Super Mario Land 2 for my birthday, sold my SNES to get a Gold Controller N64 pack with Mario 64. In 1999, my N64 got stolen with my three games (Mario 64, OoT and Rogue Squadron), and borrowed my uncle's PlayStation for a month before my parents bought me a second hand one with three games (Mario 64, MArio Kart and Goldeneye), built up N64 game library and now currently have 9 games.
Bought Rogue Leader for Christmas last year cause it was only AUS$29. BOught my Gamecube in January this year, and now have 9 games.
Will buy a further 6 games, but have no money.
Still have my N64.

And such is the watered down version of the story of my gaming life with Nintendo!

[Asimov]

18 and I agree wholeheartedly.  I had to go get my other keyboard because the tears rolling from my eyes shorted it out.  I absolutley cannot stand it when when some xboxer or PS2 fan comes to me screaming "OH MY GAWD HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST, CRAPPY THIRD PARTY GAME THAT FILLED WITH BLUUD, SECKS, AND TEH BULLIT TYME!1!"
GAYCUB SUX!! LOL!

[ThePerm]

Im 19. hmmm, i frind it kinda funny. Whats really odd is that i was a born again mario fan before i even knew n64 was looming. When i moved here to arizona i had nothing to do. Now i had an nes from way back when i was little...but i never had beaten any games or had gotten very far in any of them at all. Well that patheticness was defeated. I beat mario is missing for the pc and then moved on to beat mario 1 and 3 within a two week span. I have never, ever, ever had the same high from beating a game since i beat mario 3. I remember it was the summer between 6th and 7th grade and i was such a stupid kid. I drew pictures of what i hoped the next mario would look like. Just more elaborated characters from mario 1,2, and 3 based on themes and added difficulty. Well i had overlooked super nintendo(basically what i ended up drawing lol)....still don't have one . Anyways I was a big mario fan...and um then i went to target and saw mario 64..........WTF.

we all have mario 64 memories...that game was just revolutionary. People would just crowd aroudn hte game waiting to play. People would sit and play in the store for hours....people wanted to play and people wanted to watch too. Anyways beign a big mario fan i could only become a mario zombie. whats a playstation?

anyways iv boughten my friends the book game over a few times having read it a few times myself and am going to college in hopes that i will be an artist in a video game company. Im hoping to work at a ninty second party. I feel zeal towards Nintendo. I want the best for them. I want them to crush the competition.

i want to say more...but this thread is so right...so right...i feel the same way. Also id say im in the same position as termin8...i am really a fanboy in my mond...but i have no time to play games and no money to afford them.

[MysticGohan24]

I agree whole heartedly, It get's really annoying hearing people talk smack about  Nintendo. ( I'm not one to standby idle ; ) )

I'm very good at shutting people with my vast knowledge of all thing's Nintendo and the media as a whole ( I've kept uptodate on news )

Sony is annoying and Microsoft is errrrr..... hmmm. . . . . what would described that? Fugly? or butt ugly?

Anyway, I see Nintendo Climbing up the ranks in the times to come.

Isn't sony in Finacial trouble? Since the only branch doing anything profitable is PSX2 and the whole PS brand. I don't see them lasting much longer at that rate.

PS3 from what I've heard will be twice or more harder to work with than the PSX2. I remember a quote about ps2 from a devloper ~ PS2 is a bigger B!tch than your wife. Something to that effect, I found it amusing

Nintendo has been a favorite of mine since I heard they're name ( Arcade Mario & Donkey Kong ) and my True Love was the Nes and all the way up to present GC & GBA and GBP. I even still have My Nes, Snes, N64 and of course GC and you know the rest

It's just sad that most people are idoits and don't know what a *true* game is.

Ack I don't want more garbage than the Atari and PSX combined, That's freightening.

Respect Nintendo for they will kick @$$ and I'll Buy the System to see it

[WuTangTurtle]

WoW, and i thought our kind was rarier, lol, nice turn out for this topic.

Well where should i start, ummm.....I'm 18 and the first game i remember getting into was the original MegaMan game on NES.......then followed up with Duck hunt, mario 1-3, and etc...................Then i got my SNES and i ended up getting like about 18 games in that systems lifetime, GOD that was the best era in videogames!

N64 was a revoultionary system for me though, thnks to mario 64, goldeneye, thq wrestling games, etc.

GCN still reigns supreme with me though.....even though ive boughten a xbox and ps2..........my ps2 broke in 5 months (got full store credit though).  Used the full store credit to get xbox.  i currently own 7 xbox games and 4 of them i got 4 free (Halo, shenume2, fuzion frenzy, and MechAssault), and yet i barely play any of them at all.

So far i own 13 games for GCN, 7 of them being 3rd party!

lol, i even own a zelda shirt *caption* "Dont Make me go Zelda on you", another shirt that has a NES controller on it, a duckhunt shirt, and another with a GCN logo on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cant wait till the next system comes out so i can get up at like 8am and wait for my N5 just like i did for my GCN!!!!!!!!!!!

PS hey Perm i live in AZ too! lol  

[UniversalJuan]

I rarely post here. (Tis a sin I tell you!) But dangit this thread just brings out the love in me. It reminds me why I quest to own/have owned every Nintendo system (I'm getting there...own/have owned NES, NES2, SNES, SNES2, GB, GBP, GBL [Pride of the collection], GBC, GBA, GBASP, VB, N64, GCN...you'd think I'd be done right? Right? Wrong! I want the Japanese ones too! Dahahahaha! I'm ok now...) My love stems back to when I was 4 or 5. It was christmas...approx. 10:33 AM (Nintendo is that deep dangit) I walked into the dining room and there was my gift. Hooked up to the TV and ready to be played. My very own NES. (I would later in life come to find out why it was already hooked up...my cousins were playing it the night before after I had went to sleep!) Inside was good ol Super Mario Bros. I turned it on. Picked up the controller. Picked SMB instead of Duck Hunt and I never looked back. My life changed from that day. Enter 1990. The Nintendo freaking PowerFest! (Dear lord I'd do anything they asked to see this brought back.) Surrounded by thousands of fellow gamers and tons of games. I must've spent 5 hours on SMB3 alone. This doesn't include all the time I spent on the PowerPad. Fast foward to SNES release. No SNES for poor UJ. Too expensive. I didn't get a SNES until N64 was out for like a year. N64 launch same story as SNES (But I got a 64 before Cube's launch) But my Cube. My preicous Cube (Melee sealed it for me. I was going to buy a Cube regardless but dangit Melee was the clincher) I've left out so many minute details but I don't want to bore you all. I'll conclude with this. I love Nintendo and very much look foward to their reclaim to glory...be it through another crash or a new generation of gamers. I just know that if anyone can lose their crown adn reclaim it with ease? It's my precious Nintendo. Here's looking at you big N! When I finish getting my CSCI (Computer Science) degree I'll put my game out for your system and hope it helps push you back to where you belong! (Oh and I'm 19 and please forgive any double posts)

Had to add a plug....Henshin A-Go-Go Baby! Viewtiful Joe is coming! Get ready!

[The Omen]

Well , what a welcome surprise.  I come back from a business trip, check my little thread, and get some great interaction.  And Kudos to everyone for not turning this into 'cheap shots at the other consoles' thread.  Anyway, i was 11 when i got my NES in '85, and basically havent looked back.  Atari started me, but Nintendo made me really become obsessed with gaming.  I'm 29 now, and i've slowed down somewhat, but i still get into arguments to this day with my friends about Nintendo. Anyway, i'm tired, buzzed, and generally feel i can add nothing to this very well thought out and pleasent thread, so i take my leave of you.  Congrats on showing your maturity!  

[NintendoFanGirl]

Remember those 10 yr old boys you were talking about The Omen in your OP?  Well, I think I saw them last night at the Nintendo Fusion Tour Evanescence concert.  Apparently they found out Nintendo was giving away GameCubes.  Their response "If I win a GameCube I'm going to sell it to buy an Xbox".  

[egman]

I can definitely feel what you guys are saying.

I have always bought a different machines, but always found myself satisfied with Nintendo consoles. But I think my dedication towards Nintendo has increased of late because of their underdog status and my fear that Sony and Microsoft's direction towards convergence will somehow impact the videogames negatively.

It makes quite sad to see the bashing that GC has recieved. The console is an example of brillant engineering, surpassing the PS2 and keeping up with or surpassing some aspects of the X-box at the fraction of the size and cost. On top of that, the console is increasingly becoming the home the quirky, taking over the spot the Dreamcast held before its death. There is just so much going on for the GC it have to shake my head when I see the bashing. I think of lot Nintendo's issues are not just image, but also their refusal to do work the same way that Sony and Microsoft do.

[NintendoFanGirl]

Double Post.

[KDR_11k]

My first console was some Atari. No idea which one, but it had Pacman and Pitfall. Okay, my VERY first one was some Pong machine...
Later on I got a C64 (favourite games: Katakis (R-Type rip off by Factor 5) and Giana Sisters (Mario rip off), both games were killed by lawsuits filed by Irem and Nintendo respectively), after that a Gameboy and somewhen later a 386 ("evolved" through some steps to my current Athlon XP rig). But then I got the glorious, shining goal I always wanted: The SNES! (with Super Gameboy and Super Mario World, IIRC) I was and am a firm believer of Murpy's Law, so I was afraid during the whole trip home that I would accidentaly drop it and destroy it, but luckily that didn't happen. Damn, I NEVER felt so excited before. Fast-Forward to last christmas (well, actually the time before chistmas): I got so bored by the always-the-same games on the PC that I decided I needed more selection. I thought back and noticed that many genres appear only on consoles these days. Well, therefore I needed to get a console. What did I know about the current generation? Close to nothing. So I looked back on my experience with the SNES (and the maximum spending my parents were willing to do) and decided the games that come out of Nintendo are most representative of the console world. Result: Cube. Oh, yeah, somewhere in between I also got a GBC (about the time the Pokemon craze hit first) and a GBASP (May, I think).
I doubt the definition "cult follower" applies to me, but whatever...

[UniversalJuan]

Quick note. Bonus points if you know what a GBL is in the first place

Henshin A-Go-Go Baby!

[mouse_clicker]

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Their response "If I win a GameCube I'm going to sell it to buy an Xbox".

You shoulda decked them right then and there. I can't stand blatant Nintendo bashing like that, especially at a Nintendo event.