Swiss_Cheeseman
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Threads like "Soon the *insert product here* community will die soon" are posted in pretty much every game/peice of hardware/book/movie message board on the goddamn internet.
Newsflash - None of them die. They may get smaller, they may become less popular, but they never die. The Commodore 64 community isn't dead. The Dreamcast community isn't dead. The Amiga community isn't dead. Some of them may have had quiet periods, but there are still people who consider themselves fans of an obsolete peice of hardware/software for some reason.
A good example of things never dying would be a cute little peice of software called 3D Movie Maker. 3DMM was a cheap little semi-educational program made by Microsoft that let you direct crude 3D Movies using static backgrounds and stupid looking 3D Models. It was fun to play with, and I still have it on my hard drive to mess around with on occasion. Surely its a dead peice of software, a relic of the past never to be seen again?
Wrong. 3dmm.com is a community of people still playing with this thing, and some of the stuff they have done with it is incredible. This is almost 8 years after the damn thing got released.
DOS games never died. People remake them, programs like DOSBox come along and make them playable on new computers. Strife, a Doom engine based game that almost noone has heard of recently got reverse engineered and is now supported in ZDoom, despite the source never being released for it. People are still releasing maps for Stunts, a racing game made in 1991 for petes sake.
The jaguar was a horribly shitty peice of shit that was completely fucking shit. Surely that would be forgotten in the sands of time? Nope, I got on my computer an emulator for it. Its not perfect and doesn't have sound, but if someone could dedicate time towards making an emulator for an absolutely HORRIBLE system on which 99.9% of the games available for it are fucking shit, you would think that people would like to play their GP32s some time down the line.
In conclusion, don't panic over something that is likely never to happen. The GP32 has been around for more than 2 years now and has grown in popularity, even with competition from devices that are far more powerful than it, have major companies backing them, and have a larger official game library. The GP32 will never die, because nothing else has.
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Newsflash - None of them die. They may get smaller, they may become less popular, but they never die. The Commodore 64 community isn't dead. The Dreamcast community isn't dead. The Amiga community isn't dead. Some of them may have had quiet periods, but there are still people who consider themselves fans of an obsolete peice of hardware/software for some reason.
A good example of things never dying would be a cute little peice of software called 3D Movie Maker. 3DMM was a cheap little semi-educational program made by Microsoft that let you direct crude 3D Movies using static backgrounds and stupid looking 3D Models. It was fun to play with, and I still have it on my hard drive to mess around with on occasion. Surely its a dead peice of software, a relic of the past never to be seen again?
Wrong. 3dmm.com is a community of people still playing with this thing, and some of the stuff they have done with it is incredible. This is almost 8 years after the damn thing got released.
DOS games never died. People remake them, programs like DOSBox come along and make them playable on new computers. Strife, a Doom engine based game that almost noone has heard of recently got reverse engineered and is now supported in ZDoom, despite the source never being released for it. People are still releasing maps for Stunts, a racing game made in 1991 for petes sake.
The jaguar was a horribly shitty peice of shit that was completely fucking shit. Surely that would be forgotten in the sands of time? Nope, I got on my computer an emulator for it. Its not perfect and doesn't have sound, but if someone could dedicate time towards making an emulator for an absolutely HORRIBLE system on which 99.9% of the games available for it are fucking shit, you would think that people would like to play their GP32s some time down the line.
In conclusion, don't panic over something that is likely never to happen. The GP32 has been around for more than 2 years now and has grown in popularity, even with competition from devices that are far more powerful than it, have major companies backing them, and have a larger official game library. The GP32 will never die, because nothing else has.
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