The Future Is Now, A Winner Is You
I am not insane. I have just been evilly reprogrammed.
So yeah, a Neo Geo AES system is impractical for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that one controller is comparable in size to the conceptual PS3 design, but I'll be god damned if playing 15 year-old games on that box isn't a slice of lightly toasted charm.
Enough pondering though. I wanted to share with all of you my brand new theory!
You see, I believe that The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess (TLOZ:TTP OMG PWNED NTBUSWAB!) is actually the new R.O.B. for the Nintendo Revolution. The Robot Operating Buddy was the grand trojan horse of videogames. The US game playing public was suffering from some serious post-Atari E.T. apoplexy back in 1986 and the notion of selling these woozy saps a new game console was absurd, so Nintendo packaged the thing with a failed Japanese peripheral and made the NES looks like a shiny, um, dull-grey toy. But it was still a toy, a product that was understandable and easy to bring into the home. Little did everyone know that Super Mario Bros. was lurking in there like a craven god-hero waiting to lead a world into an entirely new medium. They fell for it too. Mario got into everyone's house and he still hasn't left, eatin' up all the food.
2006 is a different world dear friends. Everyone done wants to play the big movie game. They want the Master Chief. They want the 20+ hours game time, the big immersive world, the orchestrated score. That's what they understand now.
Twilight Princess is easy to sell because it's just a videogame. A grand sweeping videogame that has Link in it, but just a videogame nonetheless. Whether it adopts any potential play mechanics inherent in the new Revolution controller is a moot point. The Revolution can play it is all that matters, and the name Zelda alone, regardless of hi-def gaphics or what have you, will get that little white box and it's wacky controller into people's houses.
But they won't be expecting the new things it can do.
It's gonna move in. And it's not going to go home.
Zelda Trojan Horse Theory exeunt.
And oh yes, NTBUSWAB? Not to bring up Star Wars again but...
S'useful.
So yeah, a Neo Geo AES system is impractical for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that one controller is comparable in size to the conceptual PS3 design, but I'll be god damned if playing 15 year-old games on that box isn't a slice of lightly toasted charm.
Enough pondering though. I wanted to share with all of you my brand new theory!
You see, I believe that The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess (TLOZ:TTP OMG PWNED NTBUSWAB!) is actually the new R.O.B. for the Nintendo Revolution. The Robot Operating Buddy was the grand trojan horse of videogames. The US game playing public was suffering from some serious post-Atari E.T. apoplexy back in 1986 and the notion of selling these woozy saps a new game console was absurd, so Nintendo packaged the thing with a failed Japanese peripheral and made the NES looks like a shiny, um, dull-grey toy. But it was still a toy, a product that was understandable and easy to bring into the home. Little did everyone know that Super Mario Bros. was lurking in there like a craven god-hero waiting to lead a world into an entirely new medium. They fell for it too. Mario got into everyone's house and he still hasn't left, eatin' up all the food.
2006 is a different world dear friends. Everyone done wants to play the big movie game. They want the Master Chief. They want the 20+ hours game time, the big immersive world, the orchestrated score. That's what they understand now.
Twilight Princess is easy to sell because it's just a videogame. A grand sweeping videogame that has Link in it, but just a videogame nonetheless. Whether it adopts any potential play mechanics inherent in the new Revolution controller is a moot point. The Revolution can play it is all that matters, and the name Zelda alone, regardless of hi-def gaphics or what have you, will get that little white box and it's wacky controller into people's houses.
But they won't be expecting the new things it can do.
It's gonna move in. And it's not going to go home.
Zelda Trojan Horse Theory exeunt.
And oh yes, NTBUSWAB? Not to bring up Star Wars again but...
S'useful.
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