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September 28, 2005
Miyamoto is God
[Via Joystiq]
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September 26, 2005
Worst decision ever
Back in 1983 Nintendo wanted to break to the American market selling their Famicom console which had a good run in Japan. At that time they weren't confident that they can compete against the American giant Atari, then the console leader with their 2600, 5200 and soon to be released 7800. So instead of competing head to head they approached Atari to license their name for the Famicom console. Atari told Nintendo that they weren't interested in their game system and the marketing hated the Nintendo controller because it doesn't have the joystick in it. At that time all Atari's controllers had the little joystick in it, while Famicom controller which derived from Nintendo's Game & Watch has the D-Pad. EGM said that this was also because an unrelated spat over an unauthorised home port of Donkey Kong. This was to be the worst flop ever in the video game industry, even bigger than Nintendo's mistake to abandon Sony's partnership.
Nintendo decided to go ahead selling Famicom in US re-branding it as "Nintendo Entertainment System" (NES) and the rest is history. It came and swept the US market and in its course sent Atari packing from the industry. Atari was eventually sold to Hasbro on 1998 for a measly USD5 million.
Granted Atari's demise was not caused by a single bad decision (one of the execs was reported to say "I could put [anything] in a box and it'd sell a million copies,"), but one could see that had Atari let Nintendo license its name, the income from what had been NES would have delivered millions into its bank account and probably saved the company.
[From EGM & other sources]
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September 19, 2005
Nintendo Revolution Controller Unveiled
So at long last the Revolution controller has been unveiled. The naysayers are out in full force predicting doom for the old Nintendo.
I hope not, I think the controller will be very fun to play with and with its new possibilities the game designer will put their creative hat and start thinking of new style of games. Besides, there will be an older style controller port so you can play GC games on it. You can tilt the controller horizontally so you can play those old Nintendo or SNES games. I'm seriously considering getting Revolution just to play those old SNES games. Yes I know you can do that using SNES emulator, but it's just not the same.
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September 11, 2005
Agassi's record
Andre Agassi has long been one of my favourite tennis player. He is one of only 5 men to ever won all grand slam single titles, and the only one in modern era tennis player to do so. Pete Sampras, in all his greatness with 14 grand slam single titles (7 Wimbledon single titles), has never won French Open.
All those I've known for a while, but what really amaze me is that this year's US Open is his 20th consecutive US Open! Wow .. his first US Open was back in 1986.
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September 10, 2005
2 Legal Receptionist Positions
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September 08, 2005
And they got the boot
Katrina Nugent and Melinda Bird email exchange that has been doing the round cost them their job.
This Whirlpool thread contains numerous links from various sources.
This made news.com.au front page but stupid news.com.au the article will dissapear in the next few days.
Those two must have hated each other to start with :)
Update: More on Radar blog. I couldn't believe that they even got Slashdotted.
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September 06, 2005
Andy Irons vs Kelly Slater final once again
In a repeat last WCT event's final, it's Andy Iron and Kelly Slater final once more at Quicksilver Pro Japan 2005 in Chiba. This time Andy Irons got his revenge beating Slater 19.43 against 18.06 in a high scoring final. These two now leading the rating board and just over 500 points separate them.
Quicksilver is currently showing the final in a loop.
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September 05, 2005
Petrol price
Seen 139.99c at BP Willoughby Rd. Crows Nest. Crazy ... just last Sunday I filled in at my own record price 126.90c
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September 03, 2005
Pty Ltd (live)
These guys are really amazing [the website took a while to find]. I saw them at Chinese Laundry last night and they really brought the house down. I found it really amazing to watch live performances these days, they are so much better than normal DJs spinning records. Don't get me wrong, some DJs are good but watching live performance is really different, the vibe is different and the crowd is slightly different. After Terminal 9 a couple of weeks ago and now this I don't know how I can go back :)
They have several gigs planned in Sydney. I'm tempted to go see them again sometime soon. They were selling their latest CD on the spot but in a lapse of judgement I decided to not buy it, damn I'm regretting it now because at the moment you can only buy the CD on their live gigs or mail order them from their office.
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