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Post by parrothead on Oct 6, 2008 22:17:05 GMT -5
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Post by TV Eye on Oct 6, 2008 22:28:03 GMT -5
I...um...
What?
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Post by The Qu on Oct 6, 2008 23:26:29 GMT -5
Nah, you're not that bad. Looking for flyers for a obscure arcade game is pretty bad, but not as bad as using the internet to try and translate Gaelic for a comic book annotation. That's bad.
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Post by Boo Destroyer on Oct 6, 2008 23:30:24 GMT -5
You know parrothead, it seems like you're more of an old-school fan than an obscurity fan.
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Oct 6, 2008 23:34:28 GMT -5
My older sister would have liked this game. She loved to play Kawada's Othello for the NES with me and my other two siblings.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 7, 2008 3:10:24 GMT -5
Hey, I've seen these flyers before too  This should be of interest to EVERYBODY here. Computer Othello was Nintendo's first ever videogame! As opposed to light gun game or something. |
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Post by BeamClaws on Oct 7, 2008 6:35:24 GMT -5
Nah, not bad. When you said images I thought you meant ROM images.
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Post by Sqrt2 on Oct 7, 2008 6:44:23 GMT -5
This should be of interest to EVERYBODY here. Computer Othello was Nintendo's first ever videogame! As opposed to light gun game or something. Before the Arcade version of Donkey Kong (released in 1980)?  |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 7, 2008 6:47:48 GMT -5
Before the Arcade version of Donkey Kong (released in 1980)? Err... kinda. Except Donkey Kong was released in 1981. And there were about 10 videogames released before DK, plus a bunch of lightgun arcade games. Look, I've written a website about Nintendo games!  |
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Post by TV Eye on Oct 7, 2008 8:10:24 GMT -5
Someone wanna tell me what's going on? What the hell is an Othello?
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Post by Grandy02 on Oct 7, 2008 8:15:15 GMT -5
I really wonder that no one highlighted the importance of the game before Fryguy did, even I knew that (thanks to NinDB ). It seems that Man-Frog has to point out again "you seem to be less educated Nintendo-wise than the rest of us". Who's us, actually? ;D parrothead: You aren't pathetic in any way. Without people like you who do research on old obscure stuff (though this game being even a milestone in Nintendo's history), it would all get forgotten. But thanks to you and others, it won't. Someone wanna tell me what's going on? What the hell is an Othello? |
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Post by TV Eye on Oct 7, 2008 8:54:36 GMT -5
So it's an arcade game!
I'm still lost and uninterested.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 7, 2008 9:59:58 GMT -5
So it's an arcade game! I'm still lost and uninterested. Well, Othello is a 19th Century board game, also known as Reversi. It was revived in the 70's by the Japanese under the name Othello (which is actually a brand name - although I guess Nintendo wasn't aware of this). There are four pieces arranged in the middle of the 8x8 square board - two white and two black (the pieces are reversible). You take it in turns to place your pieces in order to "capture" the pieces between them, where you flip them over to turn them to your colour. You must capture at least one piece each turn. The winner is the player with the most pieces on the board when no more pieces can be placed. Nintendo also produced a home console version, Computer TV Game, which was pretty much identical to the arcade version. It was the fifth and final system in the Color TV Game range. In both the arcade and home computer version, due to a lack of colours available, O and X were used in place of black and white. Lesson over. Now you know |
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Post by TV Eye on Oct 7, 2008 10:12:25 GMT -5
Then I suppose I have played it before, 'cept in the game I played, the circles were white and black.
It was on my PSP when I downloaded a game pack.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Oct 7, 2008 10:50:57 GMT -5
You should have played Othello if you have New SMB and tried the multiplayer minigame mode.
It's nice to see images of this game. But then, seeing the shape of the arcade "cabin", this is really just othello without the need to move the pieces by hand. And they're still at it even today.... see Wii Chess.
So... Nintendo's first videogame is a remake of some traditional board game, eh.... And they used a brand name? The videogame company with one of the world's strongest legal force did that!? (I'm not really blaming them, I'm just surprised)
And parrothead, congrats on your 999th post, i suppose...
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