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Post by brian on Nov 14, 2011 16:16:43 GMT
I don't know why there's this assumption the master system collecting community is small. I think it stems mainly from the North American viewpoint. I'm from Canada, born in 81, and as a kid I don't know ANYONE who didn't have an NES, except for 2 other kids, and they had SMS too. I'm sure if I took the time I could name at least 200 kids I knew from the time I was 8 till I was 15. 197 of then had NES, us, the other 3 had SMS. I can walk up to ANYone and mention the NES and they know what I'm talking about. Mention the SMS to the same people, and it'll be the first time they heard of it. Be it back in 1990 or today. And I'm sure a lot of people here from North America know what I'm saying. But like I say, that's here in NA, over in Europe, it's a whole 'nother ball of wax, and in Brazil, even more so since they were still making games up till almost the year 2000! So while it was only 2 countries where the SMS is/was virtually unknown, they're also very big countries.
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Post by Batman666 on Nov 14, 2011 16:43:23 GMT
Non-related but I had a freudian slip and read the subject as pornographic.
Had the webcamera set up ready to go and everything... ;D
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Post by Tears of Opa-Opa on Nov 14, 2011 21:42:43 GMT
I don't know why there's this assumption the master system collecting community is small. I think it stems mainly from the North American viewpoint. I'm from Canada, born in 81, and as a kid I don't know ANYONE who didn't have an NES, except for 2 other kids, and they had SMS too. I'm sure if I took the time I could name at least 200 kids I knew from the time I was 8 till I was 15. 197 of then had NES, us, the other 3 had SMS. I can walk up to ANYone and mention the NES and they know what I'm talking about. Mention the SMS to the same people, and it'll be the first time they heard of it. Be it back in 1990 or today. And I'm sure a lot of people here from North America know what I'm saying. But like I say, that's here in NA, over in Europe, it's a whole 'nother ball of wax, and in Brazil, even more so since they were still making games up till almost the year 2000! So while it was only 2 countries where the SMS is/was virtually unknown, they're also very big countries. I agree that's probably how it was for most people. I never noticed that as a kid though maybe it was just my area or something but I knew a lot of kids with a SMS. Maybe some of that was simply taking mental notes of kids you could swap games with. I'd say if I knew 25 guys with NES I knew 20 with SMS.
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Post by meu2 on Nov 14, 2011 21:51:26 GMT
I agree that's probably how it was for most people. I never noticed that as a kid though maybe it was just my area or something but I knew a lot of kids with a SMS. Maybe some of that was simply taking mental notes of kids you could swap games with. I'd say if I knew 25 guys with NES I knew 20 with SMS. I'd say that's probably an unusual ratio for most people in America. If you believe the conventional wisdom there would be about 9 NES owners for every 1 SMS owner.
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Post by Tears of Opa-Opa on Nov 14, 2011 22:31:53 GMT
I agree that's probably how it was for most people. I never noticed that as a kid though maybe it was just my area or something but I knew a lot of kids with a SMS. Maybe some of that was simply taking mental notes of kids you could swap games with. I'd say if I knew 25 guys with NES I knew 20 with SMS. I'd say that's probably an unusual ratio for most people in America. If you believe the conventional wisdom there would be about 9 NES owners for every 1 SMS owner. I remember at least two kids who's parents were strictly against them having video games. I remember one of them was one of the best people you could know and his dad was an alcoholic and not only were they not allowed to have games but they also weren't allowed to play them... I remember one time they came back from a weekend without dad and all him and his brother could talk about is how they got to play Double Dragon the arcade game like it was a trip to Disneyland or something. It was serious too, we'd all be at a friends house playing games and you could ask him if he wanted to play and he would always say no (it was that kind of fear) but now and then he would take the controller to gather the coins after a boss in Fantasy Zone and he thought that was the greatest thing in the world. Really sad to think about that. The other guy I knew wasn't allowed to have games but his parents would at least let him play.
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Post by Batman666 on Nov 15, 2011 2:51:44 GMT
Ah, the crazy parents that f*cked their kids up with stupid rules. I can relate. Not that I blame my parents, the majority is my own fault, they just lay the foundation And to contribute to the NES Vs. SMS ratio, growing up I knew NOBODY who had an SMS. Including friends, classmates, family, random people. Everybody and their dog had a NES.
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Post by brian on Nov 15, 2011 4:36:08 GMT
I first heard about the SMS when I was 8, got it when I was nine, trading/lending games was common, and I grew up in a small place where all the Kindergarten to grade 6's fit in one building. I got to speak to ever kid at least once. Then in Highschool when people were gettin into the N64/PS1 I started askin around if anyone had old games to sell for Genny/SMS. Met a lot of people who had Genny games, SMS on other other hand... Now that that I think about it, even since highschool I've met very few who so much as know what the SMS was and none who owned one or played one... and, I've asked pretty much every damn co-worker I've had what old vg stuff they may have and if any and if their willin to part with it. If anything they have or mention having when they were younger NES/SNES/Genesis/N64/PS1. I've met 1 guy who had a TG-16 and 1 guy who even had a 3DO. But never an SMS. Just my buddies from grade school.
From the I was 8 till this very day, I'm sure I've met at least 200 people, and I think I'm underestimating here, with whom I've spoke to either about my video game hobby/classic video games in general/or just asked if they handy any old VG stuff to sell. In all my years I've only met 3 brothers who owned one, one of whom was in my grade, another guy in my grade who had one, and another kid two grades behind who had one. So technically that's 5 others not just 3, but I count the 3 brothers as one cause they all had one SMS.
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Post by virtualscot on Nov 15, 2011 10:11:16 GMT
Apoligies to NinjaBearHug for taking his thread seriously off topic lol
An all be it very intresting topic to diverge into. But an off topic one none the less.
I sugest another thread be created to accommodate it, and continue it from there.
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Post by brian on Nov 16, 2011 3:32:17 GMT
But maybe we can set to be obligatory only for the top scorer (1st place) and optionally for 2nd, 3rd,... If someone wants to depose top scorer from throne and be the new king of a game, he must prove it with photo/s... I think this quote which NinjaBearHug already quoted pretty much answered the topic's question and set the rules for the HSC, so I say this thread can go where ever it wants now... That's right... "I'M" in control hehehe
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Post by virtualscot on Nov 16, 2011 18:45:30 GMT
But maybe we can set to be obligatory only for the top scorer (1st place) and optionally for 2nd, 3rd,... If someone wants to depose top scorer from throne and be the new king of a game, he must prove it with photo/s... I think this quote which NinjaBearHug already quoted pretty much answered the topic's question and set the rules for the HSC, so I say this thread can go where ever it wants now... That's right... "I'M" in control hehehe In that case, be grateful some things are only big in Europe.
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Post by orbit79 on Jul 22, 2012 5:38:57 GMT
I think a photo or screenshot is enough. I don't have a problem with people playing on an emulator, sure they can save, but if they really wanted to cheat they could hook their computer up to their tv and take a photo of that, they could even stick a master system in the photo and there'd be no real way to know. Also, neither of my master systems will play on my tv, and I imagine I'm not the only one. My point is that maybe we just need to have a gentleman's agreement that we won't cheat?
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Post by Kaunisto on Mar 3, 2016 20:36:13 GMT
I guess the system of photo-for-#1 is long ago settled and OK by me, but I would prefer "asterisk for no-proof score".
What I really wanted to ask (and didn't bother to make a new topic) is what is the general policy on emulation? Are scores made on emulator accepted? Any guidelines on that or just game-by-game basis? What about using mouse to emulate LP or Sports Pad?
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