Public Video Game ignorance

[rkotm]

We've discussed the pet peeves, and every so often sad, ignorant words come out of people about gaming in public.

At Gamestop a few years ago, a customer was demanding "that new Mario IS available on PSP" for their kid.
Or when i was working in retail, customers would have NO idea in the christmas season, i had to explain the difference in the DS and GBA to a customer. They still claimed the GBA COULD play Ds games. Or how one person i worked with claimed the PS4 would be out in November(of 07). Or how my dad boasted how games WILL be playable on VHS someday (after the N64's release).

What stupid shit have you heard from the moronic, the absurd, the ignorant about gaming within earshot or debate in public?

[mailman187666]

when I was younger, I had somebody swear up and down that Saturn was going to be a 64bit system before it came out, that there was a swear code for mortal kombat and a whole bunch of other crap that didn't make sense at all.

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

heard by two customers at gamestop:

customer1: what's the difference between xbox 360 and xbox live?
customer2: the xbox live can go online. the xbox 360 can't go online.

[Oobgarm]

Unrelated, but funny:

"How do you develop the pictures inside your cell phone?"

[heybtbm]

OMFG!!11!

Non-gamers have varying amounts of video game knowledge! How annoying.

[Richter Belmount]

I know what you mean a 7 year kid came up to me at gamestop and asked me if any zelda games were coming out for psp. I told him Fuck you , are you fucking retarded? what a ignorant little piece of shit!

[jcalder8]

I don't mind ignorance it's arrogance that gets me.

The customer hasn't "always been right" for years now.

[MrSparkle]

also unrelated by my friends mom spent the better part of an hour trying to rewind a dvd when they first came out.

[chrisbid]

I don't mind ignorance it's arrogance that gets me.

The customer hasn't "always been right" for years now.



yup

and beyond a persons job and a hobby or two, everyone is pretty ignorant on most subjects

[rkotm]

i meant stupidity, ignorance is something else altogether, and its bound to happen.

[James8BitStar]

I know what you mean a 7 year kid came up to me at gamestop and asked me if any zelda games were coming out for psp. I told him Fuck you , are you fucking retarded? what a ignorant little piece of shit!

Dude you have issues if you reacted that way to a little kid. Gotta remember that to him the idea of competition is just a vague notion, he doesn't know all about corperate properties and whatnot. Kids and non-gamers really deserve a break.

When I was six years old I thought there was a Mario game on the Sega Genesis (There was... Mario ANDRETTI, that is).

[Famidrive-16]

Dude you have issues if you reacted that way to a little kid. Gotta remember that to him the idea of competition is just a vague notion, he doesn't know all about corperate properties and whatnot. Kids and non-gamers really deserve a break.


*snicker*

[GnawRadar]

I know what you mean a 7 year kid came up to me at gamestop and asked me if any zelda games were coming out for psp. I told him Fuck you , are you fucking retarded? what a ignorant little piece of shit!

I understand if the kid was 17 not 7 you could see the validity in being mad, I'm sure you didn't actually say "Fuck You" to a 7 year old kid if you did actually say that, than congrats on being a douche. At 7 years old, do you think the kid would actually know? There are sometimes where a little explanation would be better than to be completely rude and inappropriate.

[8-bitNesMan]

Dude you have issues if you reacted that way to a little kid. Gotta remember that to him the idea of competition is just a vague notion, he doesn't know all about corperate properties and whatnot. Kids and non-gamers really deserve a break.

When I was six years old I thought there was a Mario game on the Sega Genesis (There was... Mario ANDRETTI, that is).


I understand if the kid was 17 not 7 you could see the validity in being mad, I'm sure you didn't actually say "Fuck You" to a 7 year old kid if you did actually say that, than congrats on being a douche. At 7 years old, do you think the kid would actually know? There are sometimes where a little explanation would be better than to be completely rude and inappropriate.

I think Richter may have been joking guys... :roll:

[pwpcody]

WOW. I'm pretty sure he was just kidding.

[Graham Mitchell]

Had a long post here but I'm just setting myself up to get flamed, so I edited it.

I'll say this, though. If anybody over 25 hears you discussing COD4 or Zelda in public, they're going to roll their eyes at you just as you roll yours at them. In the real world, nobody cares about video games, punk rock, Akira Kurasowa, or any of the other nerdy things we obsess about here. We're the wierdos, guys, but we have to get along in the world with people who aren't into our hobbies.

Anybody who has enough venom in them with regards to this subject to swear at a 7 year old should really re-evaluate just what side of the social tracks they're on.

[Push Upstairs]

Dude you have issues if you reacted that way to a little kid. Gotta remember that to him the idea of competition is just a vague notion, he doesn't know all about corperate properties and whatnot. Kids and non-gamers really deserve a break.

When I was six years old I thought there was a Mario game on the Sega Genesis (There was... Mario ANDRETTI, that is).

Your sarcasm detector needs to be recalibrated.

Also:

Calm the beef min.

and

Learn to love making posts naked with a towel over your lap.

[ssjlance]

My frien Sahab used to swear up and down that the GBA was "rubbish," as he put it, because it couldn't play games that said "Only For Gameboy Color."

When my friend Jake saw me playing Super Mario Bros. on my PSP (via emulator, of course), he asked where he could go buy it. I pointed him to the nearest GameStop.

The generic kid who claimed Mew could be found in various different ways in Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow.

This wasn't really ignorance, but it struck me as hilarious. My new girlfirend was a bit of a geek and claimed to be a gamer. She came over to my house, and I asked what she wanted to play. She didn't really know, so I asked if Gunstar Heroes would be fun. She had never heard of it. I told her it was an old Genesis game, sort of like Contra. She had neither heard of Contra or the Sega Genesis. I realize she probably meant she was a current-gen gamer, or something, but claiming you're a gamer and not knowing any of the aforementioned items is a little wrong.

[PentiumMMX]

Probably the kid in my church group years ago, who was a know-it-all, and kept insisting on there is a Super Game Boy for 64 (Discovered it does exist years later, but it's actually called "Super WideBoy 64" or something like that, and is insanely rare and expensive)

Then there's the so-called "Nintendo Fanboy" I ran into once, who insisted that the original Donkey Kong arcade game was not and will never be on Atari 2600 (Yes it is. I own it).

Plus, the people who claim to have unlocked a character in a game that character isn't in. Some examples I've seen include Laura Croft in Final Fantasy VII (An FF7 fan site had this in their rumors section, commenting on how stupid it sounded), Luigi in Super Mario 64 (Who doesn't remember the rumors?), Yoshi in Super Mario Galaxy (Something my cousin claims you get after beating SMG as Luigi), and Wario in the first Super Smash Bros. (You supposidly had to beat the game as Mario in his yellow costume in under 10 minutes on Very Hard without using a continue, and then he'll transform into Wario every time you wear that costume).

Also, the "I know how to get Mew!" kids during the Pokemon era, and the people who think every game console is an Atari \ Nintendo \ PlayStation (I remember pulling a ratty old PlayStation out of a box of junk, and the lady running the sale proceeds to tell me it's an "original Nintendo", plus my aunt calling the Sega Genesis a "Nintendo").

[MrSparkle]

Probably the kid in my church group years ago, who was a know-it-all, and kept insisting on there is a Super Game Boy for 64 (Discovered it does exist years later, but it's actually called "Super WideBoy 64" or something like that, and is insanely rare and expensive)

That, or the so-called "Nintendo Fanboy", who insisted that the original Donkey Kong arcade game was not and will never be on Atari 2600 (Yes it is. I own it).

are you thinking of the tristar 64 perhaps lets you play nes/snes games on your n64?

*edit* I spoke too soon it is indeed the wideboy 64. (what a great name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-Boy_64

*further edit* WHOA THERES ONE FOR SALE ON EBAY!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-64-WideBoy-Game-Boy-Player-for-N64-Wide-Boy-64_W0QQitemZ190218597436QQihZ009QQcategoryZ62054QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Ed Oscuro]

We've discussed the pet peeves, and every so often sad, ignorant words come out of people about gaming in public.
And this forum as well, unfortunately (I'm not pointing at anybody in particular).

How many armchair market analysts and butter discussions does the hobby need (judging from the usual daily topic log, lots)?


OMFG!!11!

Non-gamers have varying amounts of video game knowledge! How annoying.
:D

[rkotm]

butter discussions

but..it calm the beefmin.?
gotta read that topic again..

[Viraneth]

Here are some things:
You can unlock a Dodge Ram in NFS: HP2 for PS2
You can unlock suicide mode in halo (saw it a few times).

"Stop playing Halo on your damned Nintendos!"

"All games have cheat codes."

"The Atari was the first video game system."

"Arcades are dead."

"What's Doom?"

[Jimmy Yakapucci]

For simple arrogance, here is an experience from the Too Many Games con last Sunday. While waiting in line to get in, a family, (mom, dad, and I believe 3 kids), tried to walk in and were told by the people in line that they were not open yet and that the line was for the preregistered people. As they walked to the back of the line, one of the people in front of me commented something to the effect of, "You didn't think that we'd be hardcore enough to get here before 10:00?" and "I was rocking out to Mario 3 before you were born." At that point I almost dropped to my knees in reverence to the awesome hardcore gaming god in front of me.

:hail::hail: :king: :hail::hail:

JY

[Ed Oscuro]

beef min.?
a ken its gd but fuk me nae need t rub ur nipples about it

[MrSparkle]

a ken its gd but fuk me nae need t rub ur nipples about it

ive seen this in the forums, ive seen this in the store, i feel that im missing out on something here, originating thread linkage for a DP culture newb.

[Trevelyan]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96140

This guy I used to know would call his Super Nintendo a Super SNES & not bat an eyelid. But the champion is my sister, who has never been interested in Video Games. She decided to try & play Goldeneye one evening whilst she was waiting for a friend to get ready as they were going out for the evening, & its the only time she'd ever picked up a controller from any console I can recall. She managed to run about with me & my mate who were playing in the multiplayer mode, but shooting, let alone targeting, was a serious problem. After a while, I got bored & capped her, & was met with this response..."Aw! I was nearly at 1000 ammo!"

Disregarding the fact you couldn't obtain 1000 ammo for the gun she was wielding, the fact she'd latched on this as an objective was pretty cool & kinda funny!

[DreamTR]

I don't mind ignorance it's arrogance that gets me.

The customer hasn't "always been right" for years now.

Yeah, but neither has the game store owner/worker. I've heard more ignorant/arrogant stuff from employees than consumers.

[Rob2600]

One day at school in the late 1980s, my friend told me he got a Game Genie. It was brand new at the time and none of us owned one or had ever used one, but we thought it was cool and exciting.

I asked him what it was like and he said, "It's awesome. It lets you alter games. Like last night, I entered a code for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that let me play as Shredder. I also entered a code for Super Mario Bros. that let me play as Mario riding a bike naked and holding a sword."


The customer hasn't "always been right" for years now.

I worked video game retail in the late 1990s and early 2000s and I agree 100%. In front of a long line of people, a grown man screamed and threw empty display boxes at my coworkers and me Christmas Eve of 1999 because we were sold out of Game Boy Colors.

Yes, he waited until Christmas Eve to buy one of the hottest products and was enraged that we didn't magically pick up on his telepathic waves to save one for him.


Yeah, but neither has the game store owner/worker. I've heard more ignorant/arrogant stuff from employees than consumers.

This is also true. My old managers hired intelligent, well-spoken, polite, nicely-dressed workers. Now, it seems like managers hire mumbling idiots who think wearing an oversized football jersey is dressing up.

[strassy]

some white trash cook at work was trying to tell me that grand theft auto 4 cannot be sold to anyone under 21...and that it is ILLEGAL for anyone under 18 to even watch the game being played..as in you would be ARRESTED.

now, i don't know very much about modern video games, and i try to keep quiet about how much I know about the NES (to minimize the nerd factor)...but that's the kind of ridiculous statement an 8 year old would make. THAT is annoying

[Bandicat]

I remember when I was in elementary school, someone told me that a Neo Geo had such awesome graphics that it was like "Playing a TV".

[Push Upstairs]

One day at school in the late 1980s, my friend told me he got a Game Genie. It was brand new at the time and none of us owned one or had ever used one, but we thought it was cool and exciting.

I asked him what it was like and he said, "It's awesome. It lets you alter games. Like last night, I entered a code for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that let me play as Shredder. I also entered a code for Super Mario Bros. that let me play as Mario riding a bike naked and holding a sword."

The one I was told in grade school was that it allowed you to make your own weapons in the game. This kid told me he "made" a boomerang weapon for Mario in SMB3.


The king of great comments I have heard was this father in Gamestop claiming that all games should work on all systems because "they all basically run on DOS". :hmm:

[CelticJobber]

Back when Mortal Kombat 2 was still new in arcades and the home versions were still months away from even being announced, there was a kid in my class who swore he had a copy on his Game Gear that his dad got for him in Japan.

On a similar note, several months before its release, my neighbor claimed he played GTA: Vice City at a friends house because his friend had imported a copy from Japan. I told him the game won't even be out in Japan for several months after the US release (if ever) and he still stuck to his lie.

[Greg2600]

I can recall the many scoldings I got for this....

"Shut that Nintendo off and........"

"It's not Nintendo, it's SEGA!"

WHACK!

[Slate]

I remember someone telling me in Saints row "There is a horse and buggy vehicle that goes very fast"

[Hardcore]

#vbender spam!

[98redM6]

I know what you mean a 7 year kid came up to me at gamestop and asked me if any zelda games were coming out for psp. I told him Fuck you , are you fucking retarded? what a ignorant little piece of shit!

ROTFLMAO

This made my day.

[James8BitStar]

Your sarcasm detector needs to be recalibrated.

Or he needs better sarcasm. Not all of us grew up in the same hyper-negative nerd culture that makes any extreme show of anger automatically funny ya know.

...

Back to the topic at hand, I do remember something stupid. A Gamestop employee once claimed that FF7 was the first 3D RPG.

[Flack]

A kid at my school one time told me he had a copy of Dragon's Lair for the Commodore 64 -- not the one that was for sale, but the actual arcade game. It supposedly looked perfect and took up 50 double-sided disks. The same guy told me that his first modem was 1 baud.

[Poofta!]

Your sarcasm detector needs to be recalibrated.

Also:

Calm the beef min.

and

Learn to love making posts naked with a towel over your lap.

rofl


i love the OP's topic. i wish we heard more funny shit other's saw/heard instead of you morons w/ no sense of humor screwing it up for the rest of us and completely derailing the topic.


i was in gamestop and heard a little girl trying to buy a gamecube controller for wii adapter (as in she was trying to use her gamecube dance pad on the wii) and the clerk told her that none exist and it couldnt be done... i didnt know what to do, but i wanted to slap the clerk real bad. i showed (and explained) to the 9 year old where the ports where.


same day: a stupid 23 year old punky looking rocker kid walks up and asks for "G-T-gAY 4". the clerks double checks wtf he was talking about, the kid later goes on saying he thinks [gta] is gay and he "saw his friend playing it and it sucks" but he still wanted to buy it cause he was "an achievement whore". interestingly enough he said he had his 360 for a year and only ad 10k points. a year for a achievement whore is a lot of time... 10k is nothing. i tried to reframe from laughing out loud cause he looked like he might start crying in his linkin park hat if i made fun of him.

[Poofta!]

Or he needs better sarcasm. Not all of us grew up in the same hyper-negative nerd culture that makes any extreme show of anger automatically funny ya know.

...

Back to the topic at hand, I do remember something stupid. A Gamestop employee once claimed that FF7 was the first 3D RPG.

sarcasm doesnt mean its funny. sarcasm means its an obviouse false (which is usually WHY its funny).

[Push Upstairs]

i tried to reframe from laughing out loud cause he looked like he might start crying in his linkin park hat if i made fun of him.

Linkin Park hat? What could you do to this guy that life hasn't already done to him?

[Viraneth]

Linkin Park hat? What could you do to this guy that life hasn't already done to him?

Absolutely EVERYTHING!
Srsly.

Good gamer ignorance: Ninja Gaiden was on the PS2, not the Xbox.

Chain of Memories has multiplayer?

Halo was the first FPS with vehicles?!

There's a GTA game in London? Wait, you mean GTA:III wasn't the first one?!

Runescape is better than every Final Fantasy.

"How do you shoot the gun?" (Kid playing Halo)

Fox news: "Watch out what your kids arep laying, the new Xbox game MAss Effect has full nudity and sexual situations and scenes." (Paraphrasing. People know what I'm talking about).

Best one ever, a gamestop employee: "There is no such thing as Halo 3." (Right after the Halo 3 release date announcement)

[Graham Mitchell]

I've got one to add.

I had a friend in high school who was particularly interested in games with violent/other objectional material in them. He told me that he ordered some games from "one of those companies in the back of EGM" that totally don't exist. One of them was "Satan's Quest" supposedly for the Genesis, which sounded like a hack of the Fairy Tale Adventure with Satan as the protagonist (where the hell did he come up with the Fairy Tale Adventure for basis of his nasty game?) Anyway, he said the music was all warped and sounded as if it was being played backwards.

The other game he supposedly "ordered" was "The Life of David Koresh" for the Genesis. This was definitely the era of the big Waco oopsy, and I think that high school kids at that time just assumed that all cults were satanic. A video game about a polygamist wouldn't be very interesting (or would it?) but I think he was more aiming to fabricate a game about a satanist.

I let him think I believed him on this because this shit he came up with was hilarious. I wanted to see how far he'd go. I still cackle when I think about "The Life of David Koresh" game.

[Viraneth]

At least he didn't pull a "I have Duke Nukem Forever."

[coreys429]

I am surprised that no one has pulled.. If you press this on the PS1 controller you can get Lara Croft naked. I don't know how many times my friends told me in middle school that they saw her naked.

Not video game related but McDonald's Monopoly my friends would tell me they had a few boardwalks just sitting around while they needed the rare Park Place piece.:frustrated:

[Push Upstairs]

At least he didn't pull a "I have Duke Nukem Forever."

I don't think there is a single person in the universe who would believe that.

[DigitalSpace]

I am surprised that no one has pulled.. If you press this on the PS1 controller you can get Lara Croft naked. I don't know how many times my friends told me in middle school that they saw her naked.

Back in high school, a friend of mine wasn't allowed to play Tomb Raider because his mom had heard about the nude code on the news. This same friend once gave me a printed strip of paper with the code on it, and I kept it in my wallet for a few years (even after I had figured out on my own that it was fake though I still had yet to play the game - I found it too amusing to throw away).

What I remember the most about the code is that it said that you had to do the button sequence really fast, and if you couldn't pull it off, to keep trying because it was worth the effort. LOL

[Oobgarm]

I remember when I was in elementary school, someone told me that a Neo Geo had such awesome graphics that it was like "Playing a TV".

I'd like to proclaim that this post wins the thread.

[NayusDante]

At GameStop, the clerks were closing up and one was messing around with his PSP on the TV. They're going through some of the funny pics he has, one of which was a scene from Advent Children with the battle menu shooped in. It was a scene where Tifa is sleeping, or on the ground or something, and cloud is standing near. The battle menu has three options, "Slap her" "Item" and "Put it in." I wish I could find the pic... At any rate, this 14ish kid was there (wearing a football jersey, a "jock" I guess, kinda scrawny), and he reminded me why I hate this ignorant generation.

Dumb kid: "What the fuck game is that?"

"What the fuck does put it in mean?"

*I tell him to use his imagination*

"That's stupid, what the fuck game you gotta use your imagination!"

*I tell him that he obviously didn't grow up in the 80s or 90s*

"I'm fuckin glad I didn't, fuckin put it in and shit..."

[MrSparkle]

At GameStop, the clerks were closing up and one was messing around with his PSP on the TV. They're going through some of the funny pics he has, one of which was a scene from Advent Children with the battle menu shooped in. It was a scene where Tifa is sleeping, or on the ground or something, and cloud is standing near. The battle menu has three options, "Slap her" "Item" and "Put it in." I wish I could find the pic... At any rate, this 14ish kid was there (wearing a football jersey, a "jock" I guess, kinda scrawny), and he reminded me why I hate this ignorant generation.

Dumb kid: "What the fuck game is that?"

"What the fuck does put it in mean?"

*I tell him to use his imagination*

"That's stupid, what the fuck game you gotta use your imagination!"

*I tell him that he obviously didn't grow up in the 80s or 90s*

"I'm fuckin glad I didn't, fuckin put it in and shit..."

i can see this kid trying to get laid

"BITCH WHATCHU MEAN PUT IT IN"

"Well use your imagination"

"BITCH I DONT HAVE NO MAGINATION!"

[98redM6]

i can see this kid trying to get laid

"BITCH WHATCHU MEAN PUT IT IN"

"Well use your imagination"

"BITCH I DONT HAVE NO MAGINATION!"

That made my day.

[Push Upstairs]

The battle menu has three options, "Slap her" "Item" and "Put it in."

Dammit! This just makes me sad that an "Excel Saga" dating sim wasn't made.

For those not in the know:

There was a parody of dating sims and *EVERY* menu's third option was "Put it in".

[kainemaxwell]

Dammit! This just makes me sad that an "Excel Saga" dating sim wasn't made.

For those not in the know:

There was a parody of dating sims and *EVERY* menu's third option was "Put it in".

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. Glad to see I'm not the only one here who was thinking Excel Saga with "Put it in".

[graciano1337]

a guy came into Blockbuster the other day and asked if Indiana Jones was out on Blu-ray. I said no. then he goes on to tell me (and i quote), "yeah, they're good. i've been watching them on regular-ray."

...

[Soviet Conscript]

a guy came into Blockbuster the other day and asked if Indiana Jones was out on Blu-ray. I said no. then he goes on to tell me (and i quote), "yeah, they're good. i've been watching them on regular-ray."

...

you sure he wasn't jokeing....i had alot of customers trying to make bad jokes like that

kinda makes me glad they shut my video place down before we started carrying blue-ray stuff to confuse the customers even more

i still have nightmares from being asked what widescreen was a million times a day and if you need a widescreen TV to watch it and then all the reasons they refused to watch it in widescreen

they always insisted they were seeing less, it was like trying to talk someone out of their religion. then when we would put up a scene in both widescreen and full next to eatch other to compair. they usually would just say. "oh....yhea, well those black bars give me a headach"

[Push Upstairs]

a guy came into Blockbuster the other day and asked if Indiana Jones was out on Blu-ray. I said no. then he goes on to tell me (and i quote), "yeah, they're good. i've been watching them on regular-ray."


Just tell customers that "Blu-Ray" pales in comparison to the proposed <insert color of your choice>-Ray

[thetoxicone]

I know a guy who always claims games came out for systems they didn't. He has a pretty big collection of old and new games so I would assume he would know more about them but it annoys me to even be around him because he always starts up about non-existant games.

[Push Upstairs]

He owns SMB on Playstation?

[thetoxicone]

He owns SMB on Playstation?

Not quite that bad, I wish I had an example on my mind at the moment.

[James8BitStar]

I once knew a kid in school who would CONSTANTLY say that the Nintendo 64 was actually only 32-Bits, and the only way to make it a REALLY 64-Bit system was to buy the upcoming 64DD.

Now, my dad works as a computer technician and he's one of those dads who wants to explain EVERYTHING to you, so I knew full well that this isn't how game consoles work. I tried to tell the kid this. His response was to show me a picture of the 64DD and say "See? SEE?" as if that proved anything.

[HYB]

The only thing I remember right now from the sea of these things is I remember a friend asking if Shadow was the evolved form of Sonic.

I bitchslapped him in the face.

[FrakAttack]

Only kind of VG ignorance that bothers me is the moral/political kind. Like years ago when my cleaning lady brought her sick kid along with her to work and I was trying to keep him entertained. Asked him if he wanted to play Pokemon Colosseum or something and he said he wasn't allowed to because Pokemon was "of the devil." No way in hell that kid was getting out of my house without playing some Pokemon first.

[TheRedEye]

This wasn't really ignorance, but it struck me as hilarious. My new girlfirend was a bit of a geek and claimed to be a gamer. She came over to my house, and I asked what she wanted to play. She didn't really know, so I asked if Gunstar Heroes would be fun. She had never heard of it. I told her it was an old Genesis game, sort of like Contra. She had neither heard of Contra or the Sega Genesis. I realize she probably meant she was a current-gen gamer, or something, but claiming you're a gamer and not knowing any of the aforementioned items is a little wrong.

Sever all ties, she is a worthless human being.

[Flack]

You guys are so bad at sarcasm.

The other day I was in an arcade playing Galaga when this kid came up to me, trying to explain the "no fire trick." He said, and I quote:

On either the 1st or 2nd screen, leave one of the blue/yellow bugs, from either of the 2 left-most columns in the formation. Avoid its fire until it stops and passes at least 3 times down the screen without firing. This takes anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to perform. This bug occurs because the jobs of starting a new shot and moving an existing shot are handled by 2 different CPUs (there are 3 total). The problem is, each uses a different method to determine if a shot is active or not - one checks to see if X=0, the other uses a specific status byte. There are a total of 7 shot slots that can be active or not at any time. When you leave one of those bugs, it circles off and on the screen. If it shoots while off the screen, the shot is made active, but X=0; it never moves. When this happens 7 times, their shots become inactive.

At that point I called him a dumbass because everybody knows there are a total of 8 shot slots, not seven that the program tracks.

So then I stabbed him.

[James8BitStar]

Sadly I don't think the public is going to get any more informed any time soon.

In fact, recently I was just reminded of the

Single.
Biggest.
Act.
of.
Video Game Ignorance.
In History.

It is a documentary called "Rise of the Video Game."

[Zora Mystery]

Sadly I don't think the public is going to get any more informed any time soon.



I don't think the public wants to know. They listen on some bullcrap talk show about the "evils" of video games for 5 seconds and then get paranoid.

[NayusDante]

Sadly I don't think the public is going to get any more informed any time soon.

In fact, recently I was just reminded of the

Single.
Biggest.
Act.
of.
Video Game Ignorance.
In History.

It is a documentary called "Rise of the Video Game."

I'm watching the first part (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ras4E4N1S5E)... Not bad.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

So then I stabbed him.

That'll teach the know-it-all little fucker. All the way to the damn hospital!

[ssjlance]

The bastard. How dare you be off by one digit on a game that predates your birth by over a decade. Kids today!

[Viraneth]

Everything about games said by Clinton, Bloomberg, and Thompson.

[NayusDante]

Everything about games said by Clinton, Bloomberg, and Thompson.

Obama: "Put down your GameBoys, get off the couch, and do something!"

[Berserker]

^

..You're kidding, right? That's not even remotely comparable.

[rkotm]

i still have nightmares from being asked what widescreen was a million times a day and if you need a widescreen TV to watch it and then all the reasons they refused to watch it in widescreen

they always insisted they were seeing less, it was like trying to talk someone out of their religion. then when we would put up a scene in both widescreen and full next to eatch other to compair. they usually would just say. "oh....yhea, well those black bars give me a headach"

YES. happened when i was in retail. The customers would bitch about widescreen, and insist I go "look in the back" for a fullscreen for a movie that wasnt released in fullscreen, and even people bitched when there was BOTH widescreen and fullscreen, which is very rare now, but they didnt want widescreen. I had to explain what it was sometimes, and sometimes they would outright be pissed off. So i went to my car, grabbed my rocket launcher, and blew them up. it was a mess the end

[James8BitStar]

I'm watching the first part (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ras4E4N1S5E)... Not bad.

I never saw Part I, but Part II has all sorts of... things wrong with it.

Examples:

"Leisure Suit Larry is an example of a 90s anti-hero"... despite being invented in 1983.

Trip Hawkins saying "8-Bit could only do games like Donkey Kong," and the documentary in general acting like RPGs and Strategy etc. didn't even exist until the 16-Bit came out.

Saying that Mario (and Nintendo in general) lost all its popularity in the Super Nintendo era.

Talking about how the Sega Genesis had "such awesome graphics"... and then showing a barrage of MASTER SYSTEM games to back up its point.

Ugh, its horrible.

Sadly yes, most people will never really be educated about games. I mean hell, even some of the people who are supposed to be EXPERTS on gaming are full of bullsh**.