I guess it's a more complicated kind of jealousy, like I was jealous that they seemed to enjoy something I knew I never would.Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 14:01:13 2017 No.3905939 Maybe I was jealous, but I'm sure I would've hated it. I just remember the kids who had them were always either fiddling with them or talking about how they had to go fiddle with them. I can appreciate their novelty today, but I still think paying twenty bucks back then for a glorified keychain is pretty ridiculous.Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 14:00:49 2017 No.3905937 It's just a weird cultural moment in time, like Furbies and the macarena.Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 13:44:28 2017 No.3905923 Now that it's behind a curtain of 90s nostalgia and people think it's cool again, I find I don't feel so strongly against it anymore. It seemed like you'd have to be an idiot to think it was "cool." I remember feeling so alienated by this fad. >Intentionally buying something that annoys you.Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 13:15:16 2017 No.3905887 Release tomagochi was held on November 23, 1996, sales in Asia and the United States brought the company more than $ 240 million.Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 12:20:38 2017 No.3905812Īre you a dinkychink or street-shitting paid poster who copy/pastes shit from the internet?Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 12:22:31 2017 No.3905816Īnonymous Wed Apr 5 12:49:18 2017 No.3905851Įven when I was 8, I knew this fad was a shitty waste of moneyĪnonymous Wed Apr 5 13:04:20 2017 No.3905870 The name in Japanese was "demanding love egg", and the author is a 31-year-old Japanese woman, Aki Maita, who sold his concept for an electronic animal of Japan's largest toy manufacturer Bandai Corporation. And maybe that was Nintendo's idea all along.In 1996 the big hit in Japan was the emergence of a Tomagochi - a simple video game with three buttons, the purpose of which is to educate and care for an electronic pet. I'm talking Outrun, folks.Įver since Pokemon Go took off, I've been taking the 3DS around more. Plus, Sega 3D Classics, which are some of the best arcade ports ever made on a handheld. NES, Game Boy, Game Gear (and, SNES if you have a "new" 3DS) are available to play. Nintendo's been pumping out "virtual console" games for years. You can play old NES games on it! Maybe this is why that NES micro-console news didn't thrill me. I still play levels in Pushmo, an awesome puzzle game. Animal Crossing feels like it's social but I play alone. I like Pocket Card Jockey, an amazing and cheap horse-racing solitaire game made by GameFreak (the same group that made the original Pokemon). It has so many good games I can play on my own. ![]() The 3DS games I like are quick, bite-sized, and I shut the lid after. Keeping Pokemon Go loaded up all the time on my phone like a scanner is annoying. That's better than my iPhone, which chews down its battery so fast when playing Pokemon Go that I've stopped playing it most days I'm walking around, because battery life matters more. The 3DS doesn't have a stellar battery life, but the "new" 3DS XL could last up to six hours. That, and a series of augmented-reality mini-golf and desktop games that use AR cards that come with the 3DS, offer some interactive thrills that aren't exactly the same as throwing a ball at a Snorlax in a park. Do you remember Face Raiders? You hold the system up, spin, and shoot weird spaceships with your face plastered on them. Nintendo even has a set of StreetPass games that combine those Mii things you meet and activity coins.like a prototype of social gaming. Those coins can be traded in for things in many games. The 3DS has an active play coin-earning system that turns the system into a pedometer when in sleep mode. There are still enough people with Nintendo 3DS systems in New York for this to be entertaining once in a while. StreetPass finds other 3DS systems and trades Mii info, puzzle pieces, and other game extras for a wide variety of supported games. The 3DS developed a clever spin on social gaming years before Go. I don't even know what some of these are. All the old games going back to Red, Blue and Yellow, plus X and Y and the upcoming Sun and Moon. No, I don't take it around with me all the time like my phone. I fetishized Nintendo's old Game & Watch systems as a kid in summer camp, and the 3DS is the perfect iteration of that retro world. ![]() ![]() It's not a phone, but the 3DS fits in my bag.
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