Prophet of Mike Zagurski

I know it's a long shot but Brock Lesnar will break it.

How is Gran Turismo 4? I am torn apart whether to get this or GT4. I liked GT3 and I like PRG2 also.

Um, shouldn't that 6 man HIAC match at Armeggedeon 2000 count as lost for HHH? Oh and he was a guest star on Mad TV.

I think it has to do with the Digital Media Rights system. You should try upgrading to WMP 10.

See this upsets me. I have a Tivo, in fact, Sony is the maker of it. I want a video game system that a great variety of games, online games, some nice graphics, and most af all... Superior gameplay (good andresponsive controls, and games that take awhile to beat,) I think the think that bothers me the most about the Gamecube and all of Nintendo console systems is the controllers. I liked the NES and SNES controllers. The N64 controller was made for Super Mario 64 but the way that the buttons were arranged on the controller worked for a wide range of games. I strongly dislike the GC controller. The buttons are not proportional. That controller was made for all the Nintendo 1st party games. I didn't buy a GC for about two years after it was launched. I really wanted to own SSBM. I think Miyamoto might have lost it there. Speaking of controllers, there was an article in EGM before the Xbox launched where the Xbox crew acted like adolescents and said sh--alot. They said, we did market research and found that our controller is the right size. About a year later, they start selling the smaller controllers. I hate those guys trying to be all cool and in your face. I wonder where they got al their research and I wonder how hard it was to eat their words.

I wonder what he'll say about having to wrestle Jericho and Lesnar.

Nintendo is traded on the stock exchange in Tokyo and they make millions in Pokemon merchandise. Nintendo is not going anywhere. I used to love Nintendo but it seems they are slightly out of touch with the general video game audience. I love Xbox Live but an online strategy was not in Nintendo's cards. They were undecided and they made a modem for it. I think online play will start to be a bigger factor in the future and Sega started it and I think Xbox 360 will make it excellent. Sony also has online plans but Nintendo seems to left behind. Mario Kart would have been great online. There is a broad range of people would will buy video game systems in the future by way things are going: 1. Someone who buys a multi-functional system (DVD, games, DVR). Personally, get your DVR out of my system. I think if the Xbox or PS3 incorporate these things, the systems could... uh suck. Now I get it . The PS3 will incorporate a CD player, DVD burner, Bluetooth, and bread maker. The Xbox 360 will have backwards compatability for any game with a name of Halo and air freshner. When the public buys these machines and they fail, then Nintendo can pick up the pieces because they make a video game system, period. I apologize about the comment the Dreamcast not having a 3rd party. I could only think of my 1st party games and the fact they did not have EA on their side. I know Sega makes better sports games but EA sucks for doing that.

I think I would like to compare the Gamecube to the Dreamcast. They both had great 1st party games. Their third parties were lacking. Sony generated more hype for the Playstation 2. Both systems have rabid followers. Maybe Nintendo needs a new CEO or something. Someone who could give the company a better direction. I have mixed feeling about the E3. Sony showed some amazing graphics but I remember the PS2 and its hype. Apparently Xbox's press conference was staged and they were Apple PowerPC's to show stuff. Nintendo sitting there quietly. Maybe Nintendo is waiting for both companies to kill each other and then Nintendo will pick up the pieces. New question: Should the N64 used cartridges? There are pros and cons to cartridges.

What about John Cena? His album is selling well.

I think it was my Final paper for the class and I got a B+ in the class overall. I wrote about the NHL lockout from the standpoint of both sides and I will probably get an A-. Check my sources. I didn't look Sega Saturn figures. I wanted to keep it between Sony vs. Nintendo because I found it intrestling about how they used work with each other. I also find it intresting, that a company that did not have that much experience in the video game industry could take down a giant like Nintendo. The Nintendo 64 sold a huge amount of consoles but Sony moved more. Why? Was it because of marketing or what? I think the DS is the handheld they need tp stick with instead of the GBA 2. Maybe the Revolution should play Genesis games, wouldn't that be revolutionary. Old Sega games that aren't Sonic games on a Nintendo system. I actually do not like Sony for undercutting Sega and the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast was a great system with good first party games. I was wondering. honestly, should Nintendo make Mario spin offs? I liked Mario Kart, Mario Paint, and Super Smash Brothers. The problem I have is that a new system comes out (ie the Gamecube) and then Super Mario Sunshine comes out and then spin offs. What? I spent $150 for one more game that expands the Mario storyline and there isn't another SMS sequel on the Gamecube. The NES had Mario Brothers, Super Mario Brothers, SMB2, and SMB3. I have to buy the Revolution just to get one more sequel to their series. Wasn't Super Smash Brothers: Melee launched near the release of the Gamecube or somewhere around there. Now they announce there will be a new one for the Revolution. Why? I spent $150. Can't I get a sequel for Melee? As it stated in Time magazine, Bill Gates has invested billions in the Xbox and has not seen a dime for it, yet. When the Xbox launched, I think Micro soft lost about $250 on each consoles sold. Most you believe Sony has done the same and I do not have hard figures to show whether or not they make money on the. I know Nintendo makes money on their systems. Wasn't last year that Nintendo announced that they were in the red after all those years of profitability. What can Nintendo do to be number one again?

I wrote this for my college English class. Adam Elmayan College Writing 101 Derik Casper 12/9/2004 The Rise and Fall of Nintendo “The bigger they are, the harder they fall”- Anonymous "U R Not E " – Playstation Launch Tagline September 9, 1997 will live in infamy with Nintendo. The producers of video game systems and games never saw it coming. It was their fault and they brought it on themselves. After being on top of the video gaming world for more than a decade and holding a monopoly over it, it was over after September 7th. Nintendo invited Sony into the gaming world and Sony took it over. The Sony Playstation launched in the United States on that cold September day and the Sony Playstation would out sell the Nintendo 64. What went wrong with Nintendo that it went from number one to number two? How did Nintendo lose its audience to another company? Nintendo started in Japan as a trading card company in 1890’s and during the 1960’s the company decided to switch it’s focus to manufacturing toys and video games. The company dabbled in various toys and other project but nothing was catching the public’s attention until Nintendo employee, Gunpei Yokoi came out with, Ultrahand, an electronic expansion arm that sold 1.2 million units. He would go on to develop a love testing machine for couples’, the light gun, and the Game Boy. Over time Nintendo grew by selling video game products and accessories. The Famicom (Family Computer), the Japanese name of the Nintendo Entertainment System, was released in 1983. It sold five hundred thousand units in two weeks because of a lack of competition. Soon after Nintendo became very popular in Japan and made billions of dollars and they made plans to manufacture and distribute their system in North America. In July of 1985, Nintendo announced that the Famicom would be renamed to Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Slowly the system was released in New York and then in 1986, the system became available in rest of the United States and Europe. The NES would outsell its competitors ten to one due to games like Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and of course Super Mario Brothers. (Super Mario Brothers would sell forty million copies worldwide and be one of the best selling games of all time.) Soon a marketing frenzy from my favorite Japanese company came with cereal boxes, game shows, cartoons, and other things came about with these new characters. One of my favorite shows in the 1980’s was the Super Mario Brothers Super Show which featured wrestling manager Captain Lou Albano as Mario. Luigi and him would have an obstacle and someone from the outside would help them like WWF Champion Sergeant Slaughter. (Maybe the World Wrestling Federation instead of Nintendo funded this show. Anyway, I am ten years away from watching wrestling from this point). The great part of this show was that they would have an animated cartoon with either the Mario Brothers, the Legend of Zelda, or Captain N The Game Master. Captain N The Game Master was one the greatest mini-shows ever. It started with this guy (Captain N) with his dog Duke and one day they are in front of the TV, playing video games of course. Then suddenly a burst of light comes out of the TV and pulls him in to the video game world with his dog. They befriend Mega Man, Simon Belmont (Castlevania), Icarus, and other video gaming heroes again Mother Brain (Metroid), Eggplant Wizard (Kid Icarus), and other villains. Captain N would use his Power Zapper and his Control Pad to thwart his enemies. This show was used to sell some games and show kids that eggplant wizards and frozen hippos can get along. Because Nintendo became a household name replacing Atari for video games, it became pop-culture. Nickelodeon had Nick Arcade, which featured all sorts of different systems that the contestants could play and in the end they could be in a video game. I do not know how Nickelodeon put kids in a video game but they did it. The year of 1990 was one of Nintendo’s most successful years, as the Super Famicom sold out in Japan. Super Mario Brothers 3 became one of the best selling games of all time. The game made the company five hundred million dollars richer and it would go on to sell eighteen million copies worldwide. Nintendo followed its year of accomplishment by another year by releasing the Super Nintendo (SNES) and the Game Boy. This giant company made a massive amount of money on these systems and these games. Everything was going great until Nintendo decided to venture out and try something new. Japan based Sega was Nintendo’s main rival around this time period. Sega released their 16-bit system early but it did not gain as much of the market as they would like to have had. Nintendo’s main rival released a CD Drive add-on for their Sega Genesis system in order to add multimedia capabilities to their system. This troubled Nintendo greatly and they turned to Sony for help. The corporation wanted to develop a CD add-on for the SNES and Sony was going to help them. Sony already worked with Nintendo by making the SNES’s superior sound chip. After countless negotiations, Sony announced at the 1991 Consumer Electronics Show that the Play Station would play Sony’s Super CD’s, Nintendo’s game cartridges, and other multimedia. Nintendo was shocked about this announcement because they did not agree to this and they came out the next day and announced they would be working with Phillips. Eventually they realized they needed each other because Sony had the tools to utilize the maximum potential of the sound chip and Sony wanted to develop software for the CD drive. Things were not fine between Nintendo and Sony. Nintendo dropped the CD drive idea and released Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Star Fox. Sony shifted its focus and went to create their system. They dedicated themselves to making a console that was a 3D graphics powerhouse. Sony wanted to succeed where others failed by making a gaming machine and having enough third party support so it could survive. Nintendo and Sega started working on their next generation systems. Nintendo in 1994 announced that their next system would not use CD’s. This was a bad idea because cartridges were expensive to produce and can only hold a fraction of data compared to a CD. This was a part of Nintendo’s downfall that they decided to be different than their competition and cling on to the past. Nintendo’s decision cost them Square, makers of Final Fantasy series, because cartridges could not contain their large role-playing games with all the music and videos that are contained in them. Square jumped on Sony’s bandwagon and it hurt Nintendo. (Square came out with Final Fantasy VII and it broke sales records. It became one the best selling video games ever, second to Super Mario Brothers 3. The Final Fantasy sequels also had huge sales numbers.) Sony spent a lot of money on the advertising of the Playstation. For example, Sony sponsored the 1995 MTV Music Awards in order to reach a more mature audience. During the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Sony spent millions of dollars on its booth and paid Michael Jackson to perform there. Nintendo pandered to its same audience, which grew up since the NES, and Nintendo did not realize it. Playstation sold 5l million units worldwide while the Nintendo 64 sold 32 million units. Nintendo has not been number one since then and has only lead in the portable console market because it has a monopoly over it. Sony found Nintendo’s weaknesses and exploited them by finding a new market to sell systems to: teens and adults. Nintendo had problems with teenagers and adults because of censorship issues. Mortal Kombat was a hugely controversial fighting game that had massive amounts of blood (for that time period) and it had fatalities (finishing moves that would kill different characters in brutal ways) in it. The game was so popular that is was going to be converted to the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Nintendo made the company porting the game to remove the blood and replace it with sweat, tone down the fatalities, and call the fatalities finishing moves instead. Sega did not make the developer change anything. This strategy backed fired on Nintendo. Mortal Kombat on the Genesis outsold the Super Nintendo’s version 3 to 1. Nintendo thought it was doing the world a favor by censoring the game but Nintendo got angry letters from consumers outraged over this. This hurt Nintendo’s reputation and even though the next two Mortal Kombat games went unchanged from Nintendo, they have been looked down as a company catering for young people. Nintendo looked stale compared to Sony because all Nintendo did was release sequels. Sony released Crash Bandicoot, Gran Turismo, and Tekken. These games were fresh compared to Mario’s tenth game where he has to rescue the princess. Nintendo, in order to shed its family image further, let Capcom release Resident Evil 2 (a violent zombie game) on the Nintendo 64. It also let one of its developers release a game where a squirrel has an adventure in a messed up world in order to get some shock value (Conker’s Bad Fur Day) After the failure of the Nintendo 64, Nintendo left the cartridges behind and designed their next system to use mini DVD’s in order to prevent piracy. Unfortunately, the system was not designed to play regular CD’s or DVD’s like the Playstation 2 or Microsoft’s console, the Xbox, which some people consider when purchasing a system. Nintendo was looked down upon for this and for not having online play. Nintendo is still number two between Sony and Microsoft in console sales and Sony is releasing a portable system in order to compete with Nintendo. With the next generation systems on the horizon, Nintendo will try to work on the mistakes of the past. Nintendo was on top for a long time and they out lasted most of their competitors. Nintendo wants to be number one again as it tries its hardest to do so but it has a huge mountain to climb in Sony. Nintendo can reach the top if it tries to be more mainstream by offering online game play or something marketable otherwise more gamers will jump on another companies bandwagon. Nintendo can at least say that they made money on their console unlike the Xbox that loses hundreds of dollars per console. There have be rumors of other companies joining these console wars but nobody else has risen to the challenge. Nintendo has a tough challenge ahead because its opponents are not from the gaming world. If they fail, Microsoft has another operating system or version of Office to make money and Sony can develop another format that no one will ever use to fall back on. Winning the console wars is do or die for Nintendo Bibliography “NINTENDO LAND - The best site for info about Nintendo's classic video games.” <http://www.nintendoland.com/home2.htm?history/ > NintendoLand.com Accessed 16 Oct 2004 “History of Playstation” <http://psx.ign.com/articles/060/060188p1.html?fromint=1 > IGN,con Accessed 16 Oct 2004 “History of Playstation” by Adam Elmayan < http://home.att.net/~thexbox/frame.htm> Home.Att.Net/~thexbox Accessed 16 Oct 2004

Hey, I am just wondering. They promised something revolutinary. I own a Gamecube, Playstation 2, and Xbox and all three systems have good things and bad things about them. I have heard rumors about the controller. Is that revolutionary? Maybe they can use a robot to control the games or they can have a virtual reality system. I think Nintendo is slowly falling apart. Gameboy Micro, what the hell is that? They came up with, within the last 5 years, the GBA, the SP, the DS, and now the Micro GB. Of course, Nintendo said they were coming up with a successor to the GBA. I have a GBA but should I buy a DS or the next GBA nock off? The original Gameboy lasted about 10 years. It beat the Game Gear, the Lynx, and the other portables. Is Nintendo afraid of Sony? Is that why they have to release 3 Nintendo portables into the market. What happens when the Pokemon generation grows up? They will get a Xbox. I think the people who buy Nintendo systems are: people like me who collect systems, people who grew up with the NES (me again), little kids, or people who like Nintendo's first party games. I remember when the Gamecube launched. They showed the most beautiful Legend of Zelda sequence ever and well they turned to cell shaded graphics. It was an intresting touch but that video showed so much promise. The LOZ would have been a darker game like LOZ: OOT. I liked that game. I am stuck in the middle of the ocean in Wind Waker. I understand that Nintendo does not want to make a cutting edge system and they want to make an affordable one. Their marketing team wants to create hype for their product by calling it the Nintendo Revolution. Well Nintendo, give us a Revolution. Or just create more games for the SNES. There was nothing that system couldn't do and there were so many classics games on that system.

Dear HHH, Please come back to RAW. I want to hear a good heel promo that goes somewhere. Thanks PS Please keep under 5 minutes.

What is revolutionary about this console? It can download classic games at $20 a pop.

Can you post the make and model of your computer and its specs?

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Why did the WWF play around with their announcers during 96/97. I was watching the Monday Night Wars DVD and I started to remember that Jim Cornette and JR used to do commentary and so did Kevin Kelly and Doc Hendrix. Why don't they switch announcer now and why did Nitro/RAW switch announcers half way through the show?

This was posted in the Graphics forum. This ironic because I hate short posts.

I been thinking about buying a wireless keyboard and mouse combo but the problem is that I do not know much about them. I was wondering if anyone here had good or bad things to say about them and if there was brand I should consider buying.

I do not have Bluetooth connectivity.

Did you ask her out? If Edge thought you were Bud Bundy, then Stacy probably thought the same thing.

Now Edge is cheating on Lita? Wow.

His Lazyness, Kevin Nash, did one of those interviews with Meltzer? and said he was the hippest man on the booking commitee.

That better be able to do my taxes for me and make some coffee. I know some people who would be willing to pay that but that is alot of money.

I would think you would be able to download 1st party games. It would be hard to acquire old sports games and WWF games.