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the worst thing about the genesis 6 button controller were people who had only one of those and insisted on using it when they played you in mortal kombat or whatever

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

an ilxor reviews the Wii for the Onion

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

the worst thing about the genesis 6 button controller were people who had only one of those and insisted on using it when they played you in mortal kombat or whatever

holy shit isn't that the truth

― grbchv! (gbx), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, endless drag was playing SF2/Killer Instinct/MK with the regular sega/SNES controllers

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

the worst thing about the genesis 6 button controller were people who had only one of those and insisted on using it when they played you in mortal kombat or whatever

-- jw (jo...), November 29th, 2006.

hahahahahahahaha i WAS that person

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah the worst thing is when you totally play fair and give your guest the better/least fucked up controller and they're still convinced that you're cheating somehow, like one friend that thought I had somehow rigged it so I could take more hits than him in Halo.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 30 November 2006 00:59 (seventeen years ago) link

not much to see, but it's a start:

the Big Wiibowski

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I'm definitely going to get one of these soon as I've just come into a little money. Is it £179.99 across the board for Wii + Wii Sports and one controller? Or is there anywhere in the UK that does a better deal? I think buying extra controllers is what's going to rinse me.

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Thursday, 30 November 2006 10:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.techepics.com/files/afro_1.jpg

Oh great so the only alternative to the controller for WOMEN, GAYS and probably SPASTICS is some kind of bastardisation of the worst bits of the SNES controller and the Dual Shock. Well done guys.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Predictable spastics reference, -10 points.
No love for SNES controller, -10 points.

Oh dear.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The Snes controller was alright in a time before games companies had discovered ergonomics (certainly better than Sega's Saturn/DC strategy of adding buttons to something resembling a dinner plate) - but to release something like it in the present day is just silly. Especially if you're going to copy Sony's uncomfortable and practically unusable analog stick placement.

Predictable reference to Spastics? It's not my fault that Nintendo and chums feel compelled to include them in most of the promotional material:

http://britishgaming.co.uk/wp-content/callofduty3_wii_2.jpg

Yeah, i want to play games looking like that man. I'm sure he has LOTS of friends :|

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

in your head, is there a studio audience laughing at and applauding everything you say and do?

― stevie (stevie2), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link

He has his own personal Excelsior department in there.

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link

"in your head, is there a studio audience laughing at and applauding everything you say and do?"

nah, In my head there's a forum of pathetic infantile 30-somethings. Rather than applauding they simply post 'grebt' at everything i say and do, before making a rubbish joke about kittens.

― Andronicus (The One and Only Andronicus Co), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

banned from ile, ip banned from the site.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i find it strangely easy to ignore the guy

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

oh no you di int!!

xpost

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, surely PS3 price will drop three months after launch when they realise people be baulking at the cost, and three months after that there might be some decent games.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That's because he was utter rubbish. I thought ILX trolls had more class. xposts

― Sir Gregory of St.Kitts (g-kit), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 November 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

"That's because he was utter rubbish. I thought ILX trolls had more class. xposts"

Using dismissive posts in place of actual retorts -10 points
Being a bit podgy and looking like a pedophile -10 points

What utter rubbish i thought geeky 80s fan children had more class :(

― Mr. Comnenus (Mr Comnenus), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

WDYLL?

― wogan lenin (doglatin), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I am trying to convince my mum-in-law that we could have lotsa happy good fun family times with a Wii, and thus procure one with her funds. I am sick of her pwning me & the fiance at Triv Pursuit and my Wii lust must be satiated soon before I get an aneurysm or something. I have not been this stoked on a thing since SNEs.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

there's no way you could break yr tv screen with that remote - you could break the remote tho.

www.wiihaveaproblem.com

― D.J. Anderson (D.J. Anderson), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This "I smashed my telly with a wii controller" meme is catching on.

― nu_onimo (nu_onimo), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Bleah. Big whiff from the Onion on that one. I'm going to assume that Chris D. didn't write it.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

WILMINGTON, N.C. - A young man accused of robbing a fellow college student of two new PlayStation 3 video game consoles was shot and killed - possibly while holding a game controller - by officers sent to arrest him.

Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, Sheriff Sid Causey said.

Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed when he got up from playing a Tiger Woods golf game but may have been holding a controller when he went to the door as officers bashed it in. Strickland's dog also was shot to death.

The sheriff said Strickland was shot by members of a specially trained team who went to help university officers serve arrest warrants. Causey said officers considered the arrest a high-risk situation.

"Anytime that someone beats a person severely and commits an armed robbery, I certainly would consider him a risk and a danger," Causey said.

The sheriff said the robbery victim waited in line for three days to buy the units for $641 each at a Wal-Mart. He was unloading them at his campus apartment when one man beat him to the ground while another took the consoles, Causey said.

The Associated Press

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://quietmountain.org/dharmacenters/buddhadendo/wheel_of_samsara_thanka.jpg

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

srsly

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's not forget about the greedy dude getting beat down. That was karma for buying 2 PS3s

― jw (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

remember the SuperScope?

http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/mania/images/ss/ss_smbmovie-dvd_02.jpg

― latebloomer! (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

He's supposed to be Koopa, and those guys behind him are supposed to be Goombas. That movie is so fucking weird.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i know! the movie is really creative in its interpretation of the game. sadly, it's also terrible.

― latebloomer! (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

i enjoyed its reinforcing of negative italian-american stereotypes.

― obi strip (sanskrit), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

"stereotypes"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I love the "sequel set-up" ending. Yeah, riiiight.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

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