[HN Gopher] First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15
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First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15
Author : zdw
Score : 116 points
Date : 2023-11-26 15:35 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| Nintendo: The world's most ambitious playing card company; that
| actually still makes playing cards.
|
| https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Mario-playing-cards-red/dp/B...
| mock-possum wrote:
| > Includes instruction manual (English language not
| guaranteed).
|
| Sorry but how is that possible - do they know what they're
| selling, or not?
| vasvae3 wrote:
| I suppose the cards themselves are the same regardless of the
| region, but the language of the instruction manual depends on
| the region, and they are commingling decks from all regions?
| rax0m wrote:
| Toggle dark mode at the bottom of the page
| reassembled wrote:
| Would be nice to have it at the top. :/
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| Even the URL is perfect :)
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| firstname.{one of the gazillion new tlds} is a good one to get,
| and usually gettable, although some of them charge like $1000/y
| because it is a nice domain.
| mananaysiempre wrote:
| Not what I meant--look at the path :)
| quickthrower2 wrote:
| You are either admiring the .html extension or the
| monthless date?
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| > A potentiometer has a maximum and minimum value. They can't
| spin indefinitely by the very nature of how they're constructed,
| and each position of the pot maps to a point on screen.
|
| Some can spin freely if they have their stops removed. Tektronix
| did this for their late 70's vintage scopes like the 2465. The
| discontinuity from the wiper crossing the gap was mostly hidden
| with firmware.
| xacky wrote:
| Nintendo tends to have a "good-bad" cycle similar to Windows. The
| good phases help save the whole gaming industry.
| weberer wrote:
| The "bad" cycle is only bad sales-wise. The Gamecube and Wii U
| were great systems.
| ajmurmann wrote:
| And we don't talk about the VirtualBoy
| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| We talk about wanting companies to do more experimental
| things, then simultaneously diss the failed attempts.
|
| The VirtualBoy was an insane idea that was a whole human
| generation ahead of its time. That's rare and credit to
| Nintendo for trying.
| Keyframe wrote:
| My mind exploded when I found out there was no 'screen'
| in it at all. Very clever for the time.
| Dwedit wrote:
| So let's play alternate history. Say that Blue LEDs had
| been developed at this time, and Nintendo could have used
| Red, Green, and Blue LEDs to make a full color screen
| rather than just a red screen.
|
| And all the warnings about headaches and such were all
| overblown things to try to make legal compliance happy,
| but they had the effect of scaring away customers who did
| not understand that they were for legal compliance rather
| than actual warnings.
|
| So how would an RGB Virtual Boy have turned out? Imagine
| a cross between the Game Boy Color and the 3DS.
| tavavex wrote:
| Ehh, these "good/bad" charts often have to follow a specific
| narrative to make sense, like those Windows ones that pick only
| certain versions among the NT and non-NT systems for it to
| follow the pattern. Same for Nintendo - what was the "bad"
| between NES and SNES?
| sillywalk wrote:
| I'm reminded of the Degenatron.
|
| https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Degenatron
| jhbadger wrote:
| That was more a parody of the Atari 2600 (1977). While it had
| very blocky graphics, the sorts of games it could play (crude
| versions of arcade games of the time) seems more like what this
| is parodying rather than Pong-like games.
| nyanpasu64 wrote:
| > Consoles with built-in RF cables, like the Color TV Game 6,
| often have scars like this, and it seems particularly common on
| the Nintendo consoles. This is because the RF cable contains
| plasticizers to make it more flexible; the problem is, people
| often wrap cables around the console for convenient storage. This
| is fine for the short term, but if they've been in the closet for
| almost fifty years, well, you get burns like this or even worse.
| Be careful how you store these!
|
| Yum endocrine disruptors... I find that when I apply office or
| duct tape to plastic erasers or PVC cable sleeves, the plastic
| and glue will "diffuse" into each other, producing a disgusting
| goop that sticks to fingers and is a pain to clean off. I also
| know that rubber feet and "soft touch" surfaces can turn into
| goop over time, but I don't know what process is happening there.
|
| I hear that the plasticizers leaching out of plastic into air (or
| decomposing) is why old electronics' plastic cases and parts
| become weak and brittle over decades.
| akx wrote:
| Yegh, old (occasionally not even 5 years old) soft-touch
| plastic turning sticky goopy.
|
| I cleaned that up off an old handheld vacuum with rough salt
| and water, of course turning it non-soft-touch in the process,
| but better than sticky goopy...
| hakfoo wrote:
| Another place you see this is turntables. People boxed it up
| and tossed the cord on top, then piled a bunch of stuff on it
| for 25 years, and there are the terrible dents. Since the
| dustcover is usually plastic, it takes the damage.
|
| This was a huge eye-opener moment for me; I figured it was some
| other common damage mechanism-- cigarette burns or leaving
| something hot on top of the unit.
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