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Fluxxdog
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posted 04-07-2005 09:46 PM $Profile for Fluxxdog$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050407/en_nm/media_videogames_nielsen_dc

Couple things that made me laugh:

"Advertisers are quickly embracing video games as a better way to get to young men than the more traditional medium of television. Many games now have ads inside them, such as billboards in race games,"

I'm waiting for the day Squaresoft does this:
Female char.: Come on! The only way to stop the evil is to find the ancient energy stone!
Male char.: Right! Just as soon as I finish my refreshing Pepsi.

"Overall, the firm said, active gamers tend to spend just over 5 hours a week playing alone and 3 hours a week playing with people or online."

8 hours a WEEK!?! What the hell? That's not active, that's comatose! WTF? Damn, I gotta go play something to help make up for the lack of serious gaming!

So, anyone else think gaming will be the new mecca for ads? Personally, I don't. Although, there is an upshot. If the game is lousy, it's shouldn't receive any ad dollars, thereby keeping it from the shelves. But then again, when you look at the lousy movie-to-game slop, maybe advertisers won't care either.
"Here's money to put our ads in your game!"
"Great! We thought we'd never get our game out."
"By the way, what is your game?"
"Pig Squealer 2: Return to Deliverance"

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Fluxxdog
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Mr. K
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African-Americans and Hispanics spend more money on games each month than Caucasians.

Mario, please save me! If I don't get a malt liquor and a taco by sundown, I'll turn into a mushroom!

Also Paper Mario 2 is pretty good. Has made me laugh numerous times now. Homophobic Goomba comment got me laughing last time.

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posted 04-08-2005 04:14 AM $Profile for Lark84$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

8 hours a week does not seem like anything, not if you're talking "gamers".

Back when videogames still interested me, I probably played *at least* 2 hours per day, and during the weekends, perhaps something like 5 hours a day.

In order to not come off as a total videogame junkie: I did not play this much *every* day, but perhaps 2 hrs mon, tue, nothing on wed, 1 hr thu, fri, 5 hrs sat, 4 hrs sun - that's 15 hours.

Later, I started playing only with friends, and our Halo sessions *sometimes* went on for 8 hours, but usually more like 5 hours.

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Fluxxdog
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posted 04-08-2005 08:42 AM $Profile for Fluxxdog$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Seriously! If I don't hit 20 hours a week at least, I tend to start freaking out.

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posted 04-08-2005 10:42 AM $Profile for Lark84$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Ah, *now* I get your first post...

I read "comatose" and thought "coma = disease = gaming addiction", but now I see what you meant [Wink]

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posted 04-08-2005 10:47 AM $Profile for Fluxxdog$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Since when has gaming ever been a disease? Gaming is and shall be the next great medium for entertainment.

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posted 04-08-2005 04:37 PM $Profile for Charmeleon42$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email Charmeleon42$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Wait, people buy music?

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my god, how stupid can two people be? Attracting a Starmie thats trying to Thunder-Wave a Quagsire.

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posted 04-08-2005 06:07 PM $Profile for Fluxxdog$ $Author's Homepage$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

I know. Strange but true. That was back in my younger days. People'd pay a bunch of money for the CDs, and I'd laugh as I stuffed them down my pants. Then they had to put security tags in them -.-

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posted 04-09-2005 11:46 PM $Profile for pkthunder$ $Author's Homepage$ $Email pkthunder$ $Send New Private Message$ $Edit/Delete Post$ $Reply With Quote$

Wait, music buys video games?

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