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The Sony PS3 thread (apparently *still* obnoxious!)
What point was that?Tuur wrote:I think you were missing the point a bit.[Feeblez] wrote: Is this like the real next-gen?
That real consoles can only live under the tv?
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A bit tense are we?[Feeblez] wrote:What point was that?Tuur wrote:I think you were missing the point a bit.[Feeblez] wrote: Is this like the real next-gen?
That real consoles can only live under the tv?
Everybody knows the Neo Geo and it's games weren't exactly cheap.
That's all.
Jeez. Grab a
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Neo Geo didin't have fanboys as we know them, because the whole "gaming at home" thing was still fairly* niche. And you needed to have a helicopter full of gold bars to buy one fucking game.Tuur wrote:A bit tense are we?[Feeblez] wrote:What point was that?Tuur wrote:I think you were missing the point a bit.[Feeblez] wrote: Is this like the real next-gen?
That real consoles can only live under the tv?
Everybody knows the Neo Geo and it's games weren't exactly cheap.
That's all.
Jeez. Grab a
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*IE not a quadbillion dollar industry, like it is now.
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It was a totally different breed of fanboy then. The one's I encountered were just simple-minded "ARCADE IN TEH HOME!" ones with rich parents. They couldn't give a damn who manufactured the box that made their cock-posturing possible.Tuur wrote:They could have fooled me.betamax wrote:Neo Geo didin't have fanboys as we know them...
Can I get some Marshmallows?
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Alternative definition of Fanboy could be 'person who buys console at launch without knowing for sure if it's going to sink or swim.'Dio wrote:Different class of fanboi, perhaps - the guys who had NG's were mostly at public school, see aforementioned comment about loaded parents...
Always a big mistake. You're looking at Mega CD boy here.
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Wikipedia's PS3/Wii/360 entries being repeatedly vandalized with "THIS CONSOLE SUX!"?betamax wrote:Does it cost more than it should? Are there only handful of games you can be arsed even looking at? Have the fanboys stapled banners to their backs and advanced in grim platoons to the forum trenches? If the answer to any of these is "yes" then it is next gen.[Feeblez] wrote:Is this like the real next-gen?Tuur wrote:But I was talking about real consoles.Alarm wrote:The Neo Geo Pocket and the Neo Geo Pocket Color were reasonably priced, as were the games (£24.99 for Match of the Millennium).
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