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Subject: Tales from a game store...
When we were running the game store in Canada we were fond of unusual things. Our store had consoles and games and silly things that no mainstream shop would touch. We sold Cherry Coke that we had to drive into the States to buy (couldn't get it in Canada). We sold imported games, we had retro arcade machines, and we were big into the Neo Geo Pocket.
This little system from SNK was well designed, well made, and we loved it. We had every single game, every system colour, and many of our regulars bought one. One day though I sold one to a kid and, in hindsight, it probably ruined his entire life.
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One day some parents and their young boy come in looking for a GameBoy and Pokemon. Now, the GameBoy was selling out all over the place and we didn't have any. I suggested they check WalMart, but while they were here, did they want to have a look at the Neo Pocket?
The what? they asked. I showed them the machine. Dad loved it, mom thought it was cute, the boy didn't really even want to look at it. I fired up a couple of games, showed them BioMotor Unitron (which was a shoddy collect-'em-up that was sort of almost not quite entirely unlike Pokemon) and regaled them with tales of the Neo Geo. SNK was tops in the arcade, I said. Their system was a decade old and still being supported, I said. It's new now, but look at all the games already, I said.
I really believed in SNK, and the Neo Pocket. Little did I know that the games we had were, basically, all that would ever be released. This poor kid, whose parents loved him very much, bought a Neo Pocket 'cause I told them it was awesome.
In my mind he brought it to school and was laughed at for not having a GameBoy like everyone else. He cried himself to sleep every night 'cause everyone else was catching them all while he would never, in his life, see another Neo Pocket system or owner.
Now, as a young adult, he's probably bitter, withdrawn, and living in a trailer with a crack-smoking prostitute.
Dude, I'm so sorry. I really did think you'd be happy with your Neo Geo Pocket.
This little system from SNK was well designed, well made, and we loved it. We had every single game, every system colour, and many of our regulars bought one. One day though I sold one to a kid and, in hindsight, it probably ruined his entire life.
One day some parents and their young boy come in looking for a GameBoy and Pokemon. Now, the GameBoy was selling out all over the place and we didn't have any. I suggested they check WalMart, but while they were here, did they want to have a look at the Neo Pocket?
The what? they asked. I showed them the machine. Dad loved it, mom thought it was cute, the boy didn't really even want to look at it. I fired up a couple of games, showed them BioMotor Unitron (which was a shoddy collect-'em-up that was sort of almost not quite entirely unlike Pokemon) and regaled them with tales of the Neo Geo. SNK was tops in the arcade, I said. Their system was a decade old and still being supported, I said. It's new now, but look at all the games already, I said.
I really believed in SNK, and the Neo Pocket. Little did I know that the games we had were, basically, all that would ever be released. This poor kid, whose parents loved him very much, bought a Neo Pocket 'cause I told them it was awesome.
In my mind he brought it to school and was laughed at for not having a GameBoy like everyone else. He cried himself to sleep every night 'cause everyone else was catching them all while he would never, in his life, see another Neo Pocket system or owner.
Now, as a young adult, he's probably bitter, withdrawn, and living in a trailer with a crack-smoking prostitute.
Dude, I'm so sorry. I really did think you'd be happy with your Neo Geo Pocket.
BLEARGH
i havent given up on it, i just have an order of operations to follow for coding/porting.![[Image: http://nfgcontrols.com/grafx/ALPS-pad-1.jpg]](http://nfgcontrols.com/grafx/ALPS-pad-1.jpg "http://nfgcontrols.com/grafx/ALPS-pad-1.jpg")
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