Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.

Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nah there were definitely games that had disappointing graphics relative to what I was expecting lol

  Although it’s true, we generally were more forgiving about graphics back then than we are these days.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Wizard lied to me for 2 hours about that useless piece of plastic.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude, the guy who introduced it in the movie straight up said “it’s so bad!”

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    • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which meant “it’s really really really good” at the time.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which was late '80s early '90s slang for “it’s the best.” I had to double check the scene, but yeah, that was slang.

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But if you would have saved it until today you could resell it foe a whole $25 more (of course accounting for inflation it’s actually $105 less)

  …

  Wait is that true? Did a rare Nintendo product depreciate in value???

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was a mattel product

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• aciDC14@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m gonna press X to doubt on that one.

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  • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, he’s right. The power glove was garbage from the get-go. Really cool cyberpunk thing on paper but … hell, we still aren’t there today!

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We absolutely could be “there” today but the lingering aura of the Powerglove is still so powerful that nobody has tried to make a better one. It got clowned on so hard the first time that the echoes of that are still rippling through our global subconscious 35 years later.

      Also, Nintendo would probably try to sue you if you sold a glove-based controller, even 35 years later.

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      • Overshoot2648@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d argue that haptic gloves, valve index controllers, and hand tracking are there, but the hardware for VR isn’t quite cheap enough for it to be mainstream.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We’re beyond that today…

      The power glove was essentially a Wiimote. It has a 3 point sensor bar you had to hang on the TV, and used audio signals to get the location. Technology improved & we ended up with the Wiimote and the Kinect, then decided that the motion controls were dumb unless VR was involved and that’s where all the innovation went.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even if it worked well, the idea was bad from the start. No one wants to control a game with motion controls.

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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I dunno, Wii seemed to manage it just fine.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No X button on the controller. Just A and B.

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    • aciDC14@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Touché.

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• zerofk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Box art back then was more akin to book cover art: an artist’s interpretation of the content. It never disappointed me. I even miss it sometimes. I used to collect images of box art even without the games, because it really was art.

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  • Kelly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I give a digital game as present I go to the shop to print out the cover art on photo paper and then put it in a card. It gives them something they can immediately look at, handle, and discuss.

    Here are a few I’ve used recently:

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    Image

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• PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mario 3 was the most mind blowing leap in graphics I think I’ve ever experienced.

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• kalpol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The game in the example is Bad Street Brawler which is every bit as terrible as portrayed. I have it somewhere still. Could never get past like thr second level.

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