>no other game console maker thought of including a game built in or pre-installed
it makes so much sense to have something, ANYTHING even a space invader clone to play and test buttons when you don't have carts on hand.
It took till like PS4 gen to have bundles that weren't just a separate cart or disc. What gives?
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Sega Master System did
I agree though, it's a good enough idea, it's weird it didn't become some kind of industry standard.
I feel like every Nintendo console should come preloaded with Super Mario Bros, or a selection of their arcade games.
Yup, my SMS had Hang-On & Safari Hunt
Most consoles are sold with a pack-in game and the Master System had built in games
>Most consoles are sold with a pack-in game
So?
Don't be mad at yourself OP, be mad at whatever youtube homosexuals you watch for not keeping you properly informed.
I said BUILT IN you cretin of course I know about fricking Mario bundles we're in /vr/
And the Master System has a built in game that runs when it doesn't detect a cartridge.
You were wrong. Own up to it.
fine, Master System and Vectrex. That makes two
Wanna add to the list or would you rather keep being a smartass
>no other game console maker
>o-okay so there's two, so what I'm still right!
lol
Do your homework first before writing lies and then get offended when you are corrected by others.
Fricking moron.
Does PolyStation count?
>AND op had no fricking idea what he was talking about, completely uninformed, gets BTFO'd in his own thread
god i love /vr/ sometimes. its like a more autistic and self important version of Ganker but with the proper amount of brain cells.
The Xbox 360 came with Hexic HDif you bought the harddrive version.
This.
And
Master System with Alex Kid
Atari 7800 with Asteroid
3DS with Warhead
>3DS with Warhead
OH. The face shooter game?
The literal state of zoomer cope
Tiger Game.com had solitaire AND a calculator for spelling 5318008 53045 3080
I think there were 3 game built into the gameking. Can't be assed to get it out of the draw right behind me and check. That's how much I give a shit about homosexual OP.
Not retro hardware, but you could play Golf nes via an easter egg on original batch of switches
>the Master System has a built in game that runs when it doesn't detect a cartridge.
I owned one of these back in the late 90s and didn't know this.
whether or not it needs to be slot into the console doesn’t fricking matter and you know it. Pack ins are games that you could play out of the box, and could be used to test the console all the same.
Every console past the 3do also had built in bios software where you could at least poke around with a controller to make sure things are working.
Most systems of that era came with demo discs too, with half a dozen of that years games on it as demos.
Even the 3ds comes with games built in no matter what.
OP owned and confirmed stupid. Moving on
>calls other people cretins
>thinks he's not a moron for thinking he knows better than everyone who was developing hardware and videogames 20 years before he was born
Wow, hindsight is awesome, eh zoomzoom?
Why did Mark shut down Undertow?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. My Mega Drive II had 999999 games on it like Wild Gunman and Battle Tank. SEGA does what Nintendont.
Same, it was a Mega Drive III tho. It had Flicky which was a cool minigame and Sonic I or II iirc.
Woah bois check out this retro future sonic
>DVD PLAYER WITH BUILT IN SMS GAMES
Whoops
Remember when that fricker used to actually review games?
What a better time.
He went on hiatus for a while but he's back at it again, check out his channel
Nah
G4U
>no other game console maker
Built-in games weren't that uncommon back then. Picrel had two: Gun Fight and Checkmate.
Picrel had five: Addition, Bowling, Doodle, Freeway, Patterns
Picrel had two: Tennis, Hockey
I'm pretty sure picrel had Missile Command built-in.
mine has renegade also
but it might be different depending on when/which system you grabbed
my master system doesnt have anything on it
i think all the model2 have something though
its a solid port too
the "pong" games on this are actually prob the best of generation one
simply bc you can "twist" the paddle and angle the ball
some master systems had alex kidd
source: wikipedia
Bro literally my electronic dictionary from the futuristic year of our lord “1997” had built in games. My fricking McDonald’s happy meals had games deep fried into them. There was a magazine stand on every corner that was built entirely of tiger electronics games and they sold game gear bootlegs, but that’s not the point.
>THOSE CONSOLES DONT COUNT THEY ARENT MADE BY ATARI OR SEGA OR NINTENDO
Probably combination of suits feeling an included game being one less game to sell, and technical/cost constraints. If there's not enough space on the existing ROMs, that's additional chips they need to add.
Related note. The Macintosh Classic had enough leftover space on the ROM chips that they put a bootable copy of the OS; accessed by holding command-option-x-o on startup.
>t. smslet
Why's the guy in this pic dressed like John Cena?
I don't really like the idea of pre-installed games because it just meant if your system died you lost the system and the game.
>Don't give me extras for free, because there's more at stake
Are you currently recovering from a hoarding addiction?
Isn't it more likely you lose a cartridge than...your system? Actually, supposing the system breaks, wouldn't you have to re-buy your system meaning you will get the free game again lol?
>if your system died you lost the system and the game.
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Man, that Isaac Newton was such a frickin moron, didn't even know about relativity. I'm way smarter than him, lol.
>things i don't know about don't exist
Many such cases
>What gives?
Companies that made consoles were run by intelligent grownups who gave zero fricks if some child 40 years in the future would be triggered because they were too poor to buy both a console and a game to test it.
I thought it was lowtax from the thumbnail lol
Both Lowtax and the Vetrex were filled with wasted potential and died too soon.
There's several problems with this.
1—you need actual internal memory, which raises costs.
2—the whole business model of consoles is loss leader—i.e., sell console at near 0% markup (or even at a loss), then sell games with high markup. you're literally doing the opposite of this. the whole point is to sell barebones console, so that you'll be forced to buy more.
In most regions in the world selling a game with the console was the standard not the exception. Even today the bare console tends to only have a short lifespan before it's replaced by a series of bundles with box designs to advertise the fact.
Given that, the trick of including the bundled games on the internal ROM saves a chunk of money. You make the console a little more expensive to manufacture by including a 1MB mask ROM instead of a 64KB one and save money on the cartridges you don't need to manufacture.
Nintendo didn't do this because their consoles never included a BIOS and so they'd have had to redesign their main boards to incorporate another ROM and the logic to swap it in or out depending on what's in the cart slot. SEGA used a BIOS for backwards compatibility and the card reader, Atari used a hardware switch.
Nintendo consoles should come with Mario Bros. built in. I mean built in at an OS level, not even through the Switch Online portal or anything.
Or at least some game and watch games
kek nintendo is such a lazy ass, no effort company, they made zero effort to bring back game & watch at least as a nice novelty for switch owners.
damn am i glad i havent bought a single nintendo product since the wii u.
that shit would actually be a really fun idea too.
Yeah it would take up like 1mb to put in the first three game and watch galleries from gb/gbc into a stock rom os. Even make them unlockable. People would appreciate the frick out of it, even if they never used it. Alas, those days are long gone. The DS or GBA would have been the systems to do that with
>damn am i glad i havent bought a single nintendo product since the wii u.
So you're glad you bought the shitty console and missed out on the decent one?
Either that, or Donkey Kong, or Mario Bros arcade.
I used to love playing Donkey Kong in DK64, it would have been awesome if something like that was just built into the system at launch.
Having a game cartridge included in a bundle with the console looks better on paper than having a built in game does, in terms of software sales and attach rate.
i hate that homosexual
also the master system did that
My first console was the Master System with Alex Kidd built in you silly homosexual.