Something that will always impress me is gaming. Video, paper, card, computer, any kind of gaming that brings happiness to people is as interesting as the personality. From the solo experiance of a first-person shooter to the cultural immersion of a massive multiplayer game like World of Warcraft, gaming is pressing against the mainstream. The first sucessfull salvo came in the form of Brain Age, a Touch Gaming game from Nintendo on the Nintendo DS game platform that actually gets adults to play aand not feel embarassed. And maybe, just maybe they'll go "Hey I want to try out that Mario my kids loved so much..."
I doubt it. The most likely thing to happen is that it becomes a passing fancy, and discussing videogaming will go back under the tables of Starbucks once again. But there will be a day, mind you, when there will be a "multimedia device" that Nintendo comes out with that not only plays games amazing but gets online, holds your music collection and even a few videos. Shoot, might as well connect to Myspace too.
Anyway, all I'm going to say is, if I could see into my crystal ball....Nintendo is the most poised for a company to be the ulimate mobile device. §
Friday, September 15, 2006
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I agree on the Brain Age --- as you saw, I tried it and it didn't "stick". I also tried to play Mario when you were a little kid, but couldn't ever get any good at it, and it made me dizzy. It must be an old age thing.
Like your comments though -- and I agree that Nintendo will be the most likely to succeed. I could tell that Mario was brilliant even back then.
mkquilt
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