Decius wrote:

n 1953 the celebrated Harvard behavioural psychologist BF Skinner published a paper about the gambling habits of rats. Testing his theory of 'operant conditioning' he had noticed a strange compulsive tendency among his laboratory rodents.

When one of Skinner's rats pressed a lever, it was given a food pellet. By experiment Skinner then established that if a pellet was delivered only on the 10th press of the lever, the rat would quickly learn to press the lever 10 times. If, however, a random element was introduced to the lever-pressing, whereby a pellet was still introduced on average one in 10 times, but sometimes delivered twice or three times in a row and sometimes not for 20 or more presses, the rat apparently became obsessed with the lever-operation itself.

This is how I feel about the Nintendo Wii. Here is another take on the Wii... Not safe for work... :)

wait wait wait... cheap and easy? No wonder K and Decius can't find her in a store!

Acidus wrote:

Decius wrote:

n 1953 the celebrated Harvard behavioural psychologist BF Skinner published a paper about the gambling habits of rats. Testing his theory of 'operant conditioning' he had noticed a strange compulsive tendency among his laboratory rodents.

When one of Skinner's rats pressed a lever, it was given a food pellet. By experiment Skinner then established that if a pellet was delivered only on the 10th press of the lever, the rat would quickly learn to press the lever 10 times. If, however, a random element was introduced to the lever-pressing, whereby a pellet was still introduced on average one in 10 times, but sometimes delivered twice or three times in a row and sometimes not for 20 or more presses, the rat apparently became obsessed with the lever-operation itself.

This is how I feel about the Nintendo Wii. Here is another take on the Wii... Not safe for work... :)

wait wait wait... cheap and easy? No wonder K and Decius can't find her in a store!

That's one of the best things G4 ever created. Man I love it.

As for the Wii, my take is that it's actually quite fun, but I'm reserving judgment (and purchases) until I see some more games that seem fun. So far the only games that are definitely good are SuperMonkeyBall and Wii sports.

Two games does not make the thing a success... yet.

Oh yeah, Zelda sucks ass, just as EVERY SINGLE ZELDA GAME since The Adventures of Link. You remember it... silver cartridge, "Link" was in Blue, in contrast to the Gold cart and red lettering of the original Zelda. Fucking 3d versions of games that don't need it (and i'm looking at a few unconcionable castlevania titles too).

k wrote:

Oh yeah, Zelda sucks ass, just as EVERY SINGLE ZELDA GAME since The Adventures of Link. You remember it... silver cartridge, "Link" was in Blue, in contrast to the Gold cart and red lettering of the original Zelda. Fucking 3d versions of games that don't need it (and i'm looking at a few unconcionable castlevania titles too).

[Shutters] not Zelda II: The Adventures of Link! Picking up those little P-bag things, casting spells, learning downthrust and upthrust, fight in those temples... [shutters].

I didn't really like that game. Gameplay was such a departure from Zelda 1 with the silly top down and the side scrolling. I'd put my money on Zelda 1 and Zelda: A lin kto the past for the SNES.