Good article on the NGPC from Gamefan 56K Beware

I was reading through an old issue of Gamefan (Volume 8 Issue 9 Sept. 2000) and found this article about the NGPC and why it failed. Though you guys might like to read it.
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Mike

man... that was the best handheld i ever bought... :*(

It is nice to see that someone in the industry cared enough to call it like it is. Stupid simple minded media gamers....

At least our good old Neo has never let us down. How many games are we getting this year? 4? 6? Yeah, long live the Neo!!

How is the Neo Pocket? would you guys recommend getting one down the road?

for handhelds I've got the gba and the trusty old turbo express.

Thx Droid

O.K.

Breath.

E.C.M. makes some valid points, but to even dare point the finger at gamers for the failure of the NGPC is idiotic.

ECM can be idiotic. When you attack your readers, you aint "telling it like it is", you are just being an uninformed rube! Probably one of the many reasons Gamefan (and later Gamego) went under. A lot of people don't appreciate the righteuous gamer geek attitude. It's even worse in Gamefan (which I honestly hold very little good memory of).

Just rabid fanboy gushing.

Granted, he doest blame the whole NGPC on the gamers, but a portion of it, in his mind, was all our fault! And again, to insult your readers in such a way. Poor taste.

I remeber reading that when it came out, and I agreed at the time. I was working at EB at the time the ngpc came in and then faded out. We actually sold a lot of systems to people that came in asking about the gbc, we all carried our units on us along with some games to show people. We had 11 copies of sonic preordered, and 20+ copies of motm reserved at our store. As soon as the recall was announced we had people that had lauged at the system to our faces before rush in looking to buy the hard to find titles (cfc snk, gals fighters, dark arms were all htf in our area). They were just looking for a quick buck on ebay. I told more than a few of them we didn't have any left when we had a couple in shipment, then sold them to the ngp supporters that I recognised from before. Call me a cock, but I despise vultures.

good for you Talen! i do similar things in my shope if i have the certain brand of 'asshole customer'. If only they knew i charge them 'Idiot Tax'.