alternate realities of gaming / THE GAMING "WHAT IF" THREAD

what if...

What if arcade games still cost a quarter (US)?

What if PC gaming had basically disappeared in 1990?

i think i raised a lot of interesting "waht ifs" on this thread here

what if my 360 could run for more than an hour w/o crashing?

what if all future mario games had taken the super mario 2 route?

you could kinda say that a lot of them did - SMB2's success seems like it maybe proved that you could fuck around with the formula a tremendous amount and get away with it, and basically gave license for an ever-expanding cast of playable mario universe characters. If SMB2 had been excoriated as much as Zelda 2 was, I doubt you'd have so many other (relatively) half-assed titles piggybacking on the mushroom kingdom franchise. I think the main thing that the failed Zelda 2 experiment gives us is that progress in that franchise remains measured in hearts, not XP

What if PC gaming had basically disappeared in 1990?

MMOs would still look like TinyMUD?

I wish I lived in a world where the TG-16 succeeded. Who wouldn't want to see a 3D Legendary Axe?

What if winners did do drugs?

― melton mowbray, Sunday, March 18, 2007 12:27 PM (1 year ago)

HAHAHAHAHA

What if Sega 1) hadn't pissed off Sony?, 2) hadn't pissed off SGI?

what if the princess wasn't in another castle?

what if you played as bowser, not mario? would the Mario franchise be less platformer, more violent?

what if miyamoto didn't garden?

what if the jaguar pad wasn't the bride of remotecontrolkenstein?

what if FO3 had been an isometric, turn-based-combat FO2-style RPG? would we have appeased the few at the expense of the many?

what if sega still made consoles?

What if microsoft made a handheld as powerful as the 360?

what if HDR and bloom were never invented?

what if sonic didn't kick the dust when you left him to idle?

what if michael haneke was a consultant on FO3?

what if mario smoked?

I actually liked the Jaguar pad, it was big enough for my hands, although not as good as the Dreamcast controller. Now if only my Jag still flipping worked ;_;

what if the princess wasn't in another castle?
she wasn't in another castle after 8 worlds. had it ben sooner, the game'd be shorter!

what if you played as bowser, not mario? would the Mario franchise be less platformer, more violent?
Fifteen minutes of waiting on a bridge followed by 10 seconds of hammer throwing and eventual lava dive. They tried this game and realized how boring/frustrating it was.

what if miyamoto didn't garden?
Videogame twee would be forever dead and we would all cry.

what if the jaguar pad wasn't the bride of remotecontrolkenstein?
Atari'd fuck something else up.

what if FO3 had been an isometric, turn-based-combat FO2-style RPG? would we have appeased the few at the expense of the many?
I'd have loved it, fuck the haterz.

what if sega still made consoles?
Sega would have less money and a lot of nerds would be happier.

What if microsoft made a handheld as powerful as the 360?
Considering how much the 360 hots up, and that's console-sized, I imagine LAWSUITS.

what if HDR and bloom were never invented?
Impossible. It's like saying "what if relativity were never discovered?" It'd just get discovered later. Inevitable.

what if sonic didn't kick the dust when you left him to idle?
He'd have been less successful, his perceived personality dueto animation actually helped form the franchise by making the Genesis "nexter gen" than the SNES!

what if michael haneke was a consultant on FO3?
I don't know his stuff :( I should watch some yeah?

yeah yeah but what if mario smoked?

: )

Atari'd fuck something else up.

There are plenty of other things wrong with the physical design of the Jag. CD attachment makes it look like a camping toilet. Video connector is flimsy. etc., etc..

what if the neo geo hadn't been hellishly expensive in its lifetime? would we be playing on SNK consoles?

actually... anyone have any good links to the history of what went down with the NEO-GEO?

What if microsoft made a handheld as powerful as the 360?

You'll have to wait a bit. Taking an existing example, the SNES was released in 1990, the GBA (which is nearly as powerful as a SNES) came out in 2001.

you don't need a handheld to be as powerful as a 360. You can only put so big a screen on a thing.

What if Zelda 2 had been better than Zelda 1? Would the third zelda have been a side scroller ala Zelda 2, Actraiser and Castlevania?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃 , Monday, March 19, 2007 5:16 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink