Zucas on 18 February 2010
| .jayderyu said: Great read I enjoyed the article a lot. That was a fantastic write up. Certainly expresses some thoughts I have had, but never formed or talked about. It was great. This is an article worth blogging about or up the VGChartz article sections. Sometimes it seems that bland forum worth news get's put into the Headlines : I only have 2 comments. They don't change the article focus, but I wanted to point the out. 1. 2. Shovel ware is not a PS2 era thing. It dates back to Atari( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games) . Though I can't find it I had heard even a cereal company had a game made on their mascot. So I assure you SHOVEL WARE( http://www.gamespot.com/atari2600/action/mastersoftheuniversepoh/similar.html ) is not a new thing. By from what I hear Custers Revenge is NSW game play. ooh check this game out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fox_(Atari_2600) (Nintendo infringed on a name :P ) |
Haha well thank you for that. I think I'm going to try and contact Gonintendo see if I can get them to link it up on their site. I mean they put everything else up there. Might try to get it put up as an article here but that's fine.
And yea I know shovelware existed before this, which actually hurt the industry long ago. But it did see quite a resurgence once gaming started to get big again with the late GB early PS2 era. And then really exploded in the Wii and DS stages. And it does seem that it is starting to come to an end as "bulk games" seem to be replaced by less iterations or more "focused" titles. Mainly from Ubisoft themselves who ended up being the biggest loser out of all of it.
