Heh, well, Cheeecago's suburbs got hit with a winter 'storm' of sorts, so
tonight was rather calm at work, with the exception of this one poor..poor
customer... read on...
Conversation (all quoted exactly as said, and realize that the customer is
completely serious through all of this)
-Said customer walks into store. Notices our Playstation import rental
section. He picks up our Hard Edge rental, looks at the jewel case, and
looks up at me, behind the counter.
<Customer> "Um..sir? What is this?"
<Jason> "Oh, that's a Japanese Playstation game rental."
<Customer> "Japanese? --looks at the case's printing--- "So what, it's in
Spanish?"
<Jason> --blank stare---
<Jason> "Um....no, it's in Japanese. It's a Japanese rental."
<Customer> "Oh..um. okay." --walks over to used Nintendo 64 case--
<jason> "Can I help you with something, sir?"
<Customer> "Yes...what is this --'Nine-tendo' (I swear to god that's how he
said it!) 64 thing?
<Jason> "That's Nintendo's 64 bit cartridge based machine. You're looking
at the used games."
<Customer>"So these won't play on my Playstation?"
<Jason> --blank stare--
And on...
The sad thing here, is that he is not the first person to look at a
Japanese game and ask if it was spanish!
What, did they stop teaching the second language in schools or something?!
Anyway, the thought I had came as I zoned out during my lunch break...I was
playing the Dreamcast and kept thinking about NEC's return (well sort of)
to the gaming scene, and this gig disc thing has me wondering.
What if , somehow, somebody could get the license to the Turbo Grafx 16 (US
at least)'s library, maybe like, all of NEC/TTI/Hudson's titles. Wouldn't
they be then able to release like the most killer "Classics" disk?
A Gig disc with all of the TG games perfectly emulated on the DC (it has a
CE in it...Magic Engine DC style?)**. With all the disc space, you could
even have scans of covers, manuals, instructions, even old ads. 140 games
on one disc. Sweet jeezus I can dream can't I?
I mean, if someone like Lagging..er...Working Designs can release Sega's
classic games (Sega Ages), why not be able to release a dead (TTI)
companies games? Surely Hudson could use the classic exposure, seeing how
they plan on beating anything current into the ground with Bomberman side
projects and so forth. Think about it all the wild riots that would start
as Bonk Classic out sells Sonic Adventure. ;)
Was just curious.
**And no, by emulation i do not mean rom burning pirating. After playing
the Activison's slow ass PSX version of the Atari 2600 games i figured it
was being run through some crappy emulator type thing.
Also...in a few weeks I'll be stumbling across some TG games and a TG
system. I will be putting this as trade material towards finding a Magical
Chase US or a Dynastoc Hero US. After being left out to dry by a possible
DH offer (never replied) and then seeing *the same one* get tossed on ebay
ticked me off. I want that game man! (the guy who won it paid through the
nose too heh heh heh..er..sorry ^^)
Laters
Jason Dvorak
Editor in Typo
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