From: owner-NGamers-digest@lists.xmission.com (NGamers-digest) To: ngamers-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: NGamers-digest V1 #1751 Reply-To: NGamers-digest Sender: owner-NGamers-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-NGamers-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk NGamers-digest Saturday, November 24 2001 Volume 01 : Number 1751 Re: [NG] Hotter than Potter Re: [NG] The GameCube Sell Out [NG] Especially for Thrax Re: [NG] My Gamecube crashed...also one other thing Re: [NG] 200,000 more gamecubes in USA Re: [NG] I hope the 1.5 GB capacity doesn't hurt Nintendo in the future Re: [NG] I'm the King of.... Fighters! Re: [NG] No more off topic please Re: [NG] Hotter than Potter Re: [NG] My Gamecube crashed...also one other thing Re: [NG] I'm the King of.... Fighters! Re: [NG] 200,000 more gamecubes in USA Re: [NG] My Gamecube crashed...also one other thing Re: [NG] Can viruses be sent to Xbox via online connection ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:11:46 EST From: Jedcross2@aol.com Subject: Re: [NG] Hotter than Potter - --part1_28.1e33fa5c.29313ce2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/24/01 1:06:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlsharer@yahoo.com writes: > REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 20, > 2001 - Young wizard > Harry Potter may have > worked box office magic > over the weekend, but his > potion of profitability > actually was trumped by the > powerful new > NINTENDO GAMECUBE video > game system. > Movie industry sources put > ticket receipts for the > three-day opening weekend > of Harry Potter and the > Sorcerer's Stone at $93.5 > million. But combined > U.S. retail revenues for > NINTENDO GAMECUBE > (including hardware > systems, games and > accessories) reached more > than $98 million in just > its first single day of > availability on Sunday, > > More.... > > http://www.nintendo.com/news/news_articles.jsp?articleID=5454 > > RS Why do they compare gaming consoles to a movie release? - -Jed ______________________________________________________________ Q: Why are there bugs in most computers? A: They are attracted by the cookies and go in looking for a byte to eat. - --part1_28.1e33fa5c.29313ce2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/24/01 1:06:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlsharer@yahoo.com writes:

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 20,
2001 - Young wizard
                                            Harry Potter may have
worked box office magic
                                            over the weekend, but his
potion of profitability
                                            actually was trumped by the
powerful new
                                            NINTENDO GAMECUBE video
game system.
                                            Movie industry sources put
ticket receipts for the
                                            three-day opening weekend
of Harry Potter and the
                                            Sorcerer's Stone at $93.5
million. But combined
                                            U.S. retail revenues for
NINTENDO GAMECUBE
                                            (including hardware
systems, games and
                                            accessories) reached more
than $98 million in just
                                            its first single day of
availability on Sunday,

More....

http://www.nintendo.com/news/news_articles.jsp?articleID=5454

RS

Why do they compare gaming consoles to a movie release?
-Jed
______________________________________________________________
Q: Why are there bugs in most computers?

A: They are attracted by the cookies and go in looking for a byte to eat.

- --part1_28.1e33fa5c.29313ce2_boundary-- [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 13:12:40 EST From: Jedcross2@aol.com Subject: Re: [NG] The GameCube Sell Out - --part1_a3.1f5880df.29313d18_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/24/01 1:08:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlsharer@yahoo.com writes: > Marking its biggest home console launch, Nintendo has sold > all of > its initial 700,000 GameCubes. see: > http://cube.ign.com/news/40030.html RS > 1985=less people than now 1991=a little more people than 1985 1996=More people, not as much as now though 2001=More people in USA now, so more purchases - -Jed ______________________________________________________________ Q: Why are there bugs in most computers? A: They are attracted by the cookies and go in looking for a byte to eat. - --part1_a3.1f5880df.29313d18_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 11/24/01 1:08:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlsharer@yahoo.com writes:

Marking its biggest home console launch, Nintendo has sold all of
its initial 700,000 GameCubes. see: http://cube.ign.com/news/40030.html RS

1985=less people than now
1991=a little more people than 1985
1996=More people, not as much as now though
2001=More people in USA now, so more purchases

-Jed
______________________________________________________________
Q: Why are there bugs in most computers?

A: They are attracted by the cookies and go in looking for a byte to eat.

- --part1_a3.1f5880df.29313d18_boundary-- [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:23:15 -0600 From: Rick Sharer Subject: [NG] Especially for Thrax Another link:
http://cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=965&topic=1731558

An excerpt:
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From: cougar17 | Posted: 11/24/2001 11:53:22 AM | Mark for Moderation
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              I was playing X-Box. Ten seconds left in the game (A football game, I forget which one). I needed 3 points to tie, 4 to win. It was 4th
                 quarter (Sounds like some war story, lol). So, I set up a Fake Field Goal to try to take home the victory (ties are as bad as losing). I hike
                 it, and...................................

                 The X-Box crashes! Lol! The X-Box crashed! Ahahahahaha....
                 The next thing I know, is the store clerk looks up and says "Dangit, not again!" And the other store clerk laughed, "Get a Playstation 2 or
                 GameCube!"

Well, after that, I left the store, went to TRU, and played GameCube there for a while (I wanted to test Luigi's Mansion a little.)

Well, X-Box crashes as much as their computers do. Lol!

====================================================================

Let's make this really simple so even you cen undestand it.

Even with the typos I can understand. :)

Can you deny that there appears to be a bad batch of RL copies out there and
that people have experience far more crashes with RL than any other current
game? (if you can, your plain illiterate)

Can you read? I've already posted here that I've seen a couple of people post that they froze up in RL.

A couple. You try to make that sound as though the House of Nintendo is falling down. When HUNDREDS of people reported XBOX crashes, you blew it off as "bashers". You are biased, clearly...and clear to me that you are a biased fool.

Can you point me to any reports of repeated crashes for any XBOX games?

I already have. If you have an account with Newsguy I can post the actual links, otherwise you wouldn't be able to access them and I'd be listening to you cry for two days how the links didn't work for you.

Your own link had posts where people were claiming that XBOX moderators were refusing to allow people to report their XBOX crashes. Sure, there are people who are lying, but guess what Bright Eyes, they also lie about GC crashes as well. Duh.

If you can't deny the first and can't do the second then you lose....because
those are the only two points I'm driving home.

The first was a strawman, the second is blatantly obvious if you can open your eyes to the prolific amount of posts all over the internet detailing specific XBOX crashes. But you're blowing them off as "untrustworthy" reports, ergo they don't exist! You're the Idiot.

It's already quite clear
that your predictions of doom for XBOX software were utterly false

Stay tuned. I'm already surprised that the Microsoft money marketing machine failed in their bid to outsell GameCube. Really. The XBOX failure is way ahead of schedule. :)

Of course people on this list will be taking your side. You're an oldtimer. A buddy. Kudos to them for their loyalty. That only speaks volumes about Nintendo fans. :)

I'm the Exception.

RS
_________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] - ------=_NextPart_000_40eb_79ab_2084-- [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:35:47 -0600 From: Rick Sharer Subject: Re: [NG] 200,000 more gamecubes in USA Jedcross2@aol.com wrote: > Ya Rick. You also said "So you decide who's lying on the message > boards and who's not! What a great unbiased and objective way of > determining the ratio of GC to XBOX crashes. ". So your saying that > its hard to believe who on the internet? Well, why would we believe > you then? You shouldn't. :) Believe the official reports. Not the filtered statistics done by biased fanboys, is all. RS That's it. Your computer won't stop crashing. I'm leaving. I hate it when you call my XBOX that. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:33:48 -0600 From: "Eric C" Subject: Re: [NG] I hope the 1.5 GB capacity doesn't hurt Nintendo in the future >From: Jedcross2@aol.com >Reply-To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: [NG] I hope the 1.5 GB capacity doesn't hurt Nintendo in the >future >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:56:20 EST > > > >Um, no. They weren't 256 MB. They were 256Mb. There is a difference. >N64 carts can only store a maximum of either 96 megs or 32 megs, I forget. >Compare that to the Playstation Disks that store 650 MB each. Thats >probably >the biggest reason why Square went with Sony rather than Nintendo. > > >-Jed I believe the biggest it ever got to was 64 MB. That was Resident Evil 2. - -Satoshi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:37:47 -0600 From: Rick Sharer Subject: Re: [NG] I'm the King of.... Fighters! Jedcross2@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/23/01 4:16:20 PM Eastern Standard Time, > rlsharer@yahoo.com writes: > >> Stryder ignored the XBOX CRASHES posts on the very thread he >> supplied as >> his own proof! How can anyone think that his bias doesn't affect >> his >> conclusion about the reporting of GC vs. XBOX crashes? >> >> RS > > > XBOX sucks? I'm not sure, but I'd say their history makes it a very high probability. :) RS That's it. Your computer won't stop crashing. I'm leaving. I hate it when you call my XBOX that. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:35:43 -0600 From: "Eric C" Subject: Re: [NG] No more off topic please >From: Jedcross2@aol.com >Reply-To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: [NG] No more off topic please >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:57:45 EST > >In a message dated 11/23/01 8:13:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, >sanrio@velocity.net writes: > > > > > > >> > >> Neh, I'm getting Perfect Dark and Madden next week or something... > >> > >> -Jed > >> > > > > What did you do to pull that off? > > > > ** Sanrio ** > > > > >Stryder, remember... > >-Jed > Ah, so that means you still have extra cash, eh? Get Paper Mario. ;-) - -Satoshi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:40:44 -0600 From: Rick Sharer Subject: Re: [NG] Hotter than Potter Jedcross2@aol.com wrote: >> http://www.nintendo.com/news/news_articles.jsp?articleID=5454 >> >> RS > > Why do they compare gaming consoles to a movie release? Hot movie to hot gaming console? It makes a great point about the amount of $$$$ Nintendo raked in this weekend? Hey, Jed, it's a good thing. RS That's it. Your computer won't stop crashing. I'm leaving. I hate it when you call my XBOX that. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:44:35 -0600 From: Rick Sharer Subject: Re: [NG] My Gamecube crashed...also one other thing Jedcross2@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/23/01 12:23:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, > rlsharer@yahoo.com writes: > >> No, Stryde, I was referring to the THOUSANDS of message board >> reports of >> XBOX crashes of the retail units. Probably the ones you filtered >> out of >> your little survey. :) >> >> RS > > From crappy little fansites? Message boards at IGN or Cloudchaser are > very trustworthy. Ah, yes, I'm sure Microsoft and NINTENDO corporate monkeys use those sites for their statistical research reports. Not. RS That's it. Your computer won't stop crashing. I'm leaving. I hate it when you call my XBOX that. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:41:32 -0600 From: "Eric C" Subject: Re: [NG] I'm the King of.... Fighters! >From: Jedcross2@aol.com >Reply-To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: [NG] I'm the King of.... Fighters! >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:59:02 EST > > > >People with bad vocabulary aren't trustworthy either. >They say stuff like "da xbox is da graydest an it kicks ass i think its >beter >then gamecube" > >-Jed I find it embarassing that there are people like that on the internet. They're just there to annoy people rather than discuss anything. I remember seeing something I thought was rather funny on Cloudchaser. One night, it said at the top, "Welcome to our newest member: XBOX=God_GC=Gay." I clicked the link to his profile and just laughed my arse off. "Last post: never posted. Status: Banned" LOL. Fanboys are everywhere. :-/ - -Satoshi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:47:28 -0600 From: Rick Sharer Subject: Re: [NG] 200,000 more gamecubes in USA Jedcross2@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 11/23/01 2:46:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, rlsharer@yahoo.com writes:
Well, cool, I've been waiting for yours for days now. You can start on Usenet in RGVN and check out threads : Willl Microsoft Advertise The XBox On TV??? (sp)
CNN is really hyping the X-BOX
My XBox and GameCube review just to get you started. You can privately email your apology to me if you want to save face publicly. :) RS
I'm pretty sure he wanted an "URL"
you know, uniform resource locator...

Well, Jed, I've supplied a couple of URL's today...as I explained earlier, I use NEWSGUY for Usenet, and any links I provide would require a person to have an account with them in order to read it.

You do know how USENET works, don't ya? I mean, since you knew what the "URL" acronym stood for and all...

RS
That's it. Your computer won't stop crashing. I'm leaving.
I hate it when you call my XBOX that.

_________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:46:07 -0600 From: "Eric C" Subject: Re: [NG] My Gamecube crashed...also one other thing >From: Jedcross2@aol.com >Reply-To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: [NG] My Gamecube crashed...also one other thing >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:31:00 EST > >In a message dated 11/23/01 10:22:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, >satoshi_gc@hotmail.com writes: > > > > >Rick, did you know that Microsoft is planning to buy out Nintendo? > > > > > >-Jed > > > > I've heard something on that, but it was a fake report. At least the >one I > > saw was. > > -Satoshi > > >Yes, my report that I just said last email that you replied to right there. > >-Jed Not just that, but it was also reported by a CC poster. Gave us a link to the web page. Yeah right. Supposedly a CNet story, but the link wasn't CNet, and there was no link to the story on the homepage. - -Satoshi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:50:59 -0600 From: "Eric C" Subject: Re: [NG] Can viruses be sent to Xbox via online connection >From: Jedcross2@aol.com >Reply-To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >To: NGamers@lists.xmission.com >Subject: Re: [NG] Can viruses be sent to Xbox via online connection >Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 12:30:58 EST > >In a message dated 11/23/01 10:05:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, >satoshi_gc@hotmail.com writes: > > > > It won't matter. I bet it turns into another 64DD anyway. Even so, 1GB >is > > plenty for me, so I personally don't care. > > -Satoshi > > >Eric, 1 GB isn't much at all. Well, maybe it is for saving games... >But if you want to store MP3 and stuff on the hard drive, its a different >case. But computers are different if you just have 1 GB. The operating >system(windows XP) uses more than 1 GB. But seriously, if the competition >has >more than 1 GB, why would Nintendo go and make a 1 GB? > >-Jed I don't know why they'd make an add-on in the first place. Still, like I said, if I ever get it, 1GB is enough for ME. Most of the songs I'd store are about 3MB each. So, I could store 333 songs. That's plenty in my case. Besides, probably wouldn't use more than my 10 Pok�mon CDs anyway. ;-) - -Satoshi _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [ To quit the NGamers mailing list, send the message "unsubscribe ] [ NGamers" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ] ------------------------------ End of NGamers-digest V1 #1751 ****************************** [ To quit the NGamers-digest mailing list (big mistake), send the message ] [ "unsubscribe NGamers-digest" (without the quotes) to majordomo@xmission.com ]