Is a referee that reviews decisions via instant replay playing a video game?
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If they control the playback…yes?
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If they classify these as video games then yes!
I am not saying they are video games, but others do.
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Puts on referee outfit - “the ruling on the field is that these qualify as video games”.
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I’ll be a contrarian. No. They are not playing a video game. They are playing the equivalent of a Trivial Pursuit game that had the DVD packaged with it. They are watching the scene and then trying to come up with the right answer.
So it’s this, but football instead of Smeagol.
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Double contrarian here. That is a picture of a video game with peripherals.
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Triple (?) contrarian: That would make the first video game some local or regional television call-in show. Maybe that would be the 1960-1961 game show About Faces, where a home viewer would be called to answer a quiz question live.
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Is working at Altus grounds for going to Hell? (Heaven?)
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That 1890s silent film of a train entering a station that supposedly had people running from the screen in panic was the first horror game.
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i’ll say yes, because that’s the more fun answer, that could maybe lead to more interesting games being made someday
i already went off about this once before, but:
if super mario maker is a video game, why can’t lunar magic be one? if moving a character on a screen is a video game, why not moving your mouse cursor? if interactive fiction can be a video game, why not ebooks? if you put on an fmv game but don’t interact at all after starting it, and it’s still a video game, why not netflix? if someone only plays an mmo to connect with their friends, why not social media (or this forum!)? if some people find grinding in an rpg boring yet rpgs are still video games, why can’t the few people who enjoy creating powerpoints make us view powerpoint as a video game?
i dunno, i enjoy thinking about that sometimes
i’ll make this fit for this thread by asking: what would ign rate google docs?
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If Wario is German wouldn’t he pronounce it Vario?
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Surprised to learn that Mario is one of the few names of Roman/Greek/Biblical origin (Mario deriving from the Roman Marius) that is just “Mario” in most of them, instead of having a different variation in every second country.
In German there is the “W” sound but I don’t think it occurs as a word initiating consonant sound like it does in English, it ends up at the end of words (such as in “brau” or brew), or if it’s at the beginning of a word it’s got a vowel sound in front of it (like in “Austria”).
So I would say it would indeed sound like “Vario”
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Yes.
Source: I’m German and called him Vario my whole life.
(Also I did not know Wario is German?)
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According to this quote from his voice actor Thomas Spindler that I found on the Wario Forums (your #1 place for Wario discussion):
“This is 100% correct. Wario speaks German: he says (or rather, I say) ‘So ein Mist!’ The recording was done in a studio of the former Nintendo head office in Kyoto (not the new Nintendo premises in Kamitobaguchi), under the direction of Mr. Takashi Tezuka. Back then, I worked on the script for another Nintendo project with my French friend and colleague Julien Bardakoff (who voiced Toad/Kinopio). My company T.S. Word Co.Ltd. also translated and edited the German script for Star Fox which can be verified in the credits of Star Fox 64. The concept behind Wario was that of a German character and those responsible for the voice-overs at Nintendo back then intended him to speak German. I hope that this resolves the issue once and for all.”
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Sweet, sweet representation! National icon discovered! lol
I don’t think I ever heard that sample before or if I did I probably thought he spoke German because kid-me was playing the game in German. I can see how English speakers would misinterpret it as “Oh, I missed”, though. As a German in this isolated audio it’s clear as day!
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Who’s the Cornelius Agrippa of video games?
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If Mario is Italian and Wario is German, what will be the next language/culture reveal in the Mario universe?
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Is Yoshi not Japanese?
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Let’s just skip all the boring conventional ones and just go straight to saying that Monty Mole is an ambidextrous Monacoan and makes custom wooden furniture, Jimmy T. from Warioware works in admin for the sanitation department of a municipality in the Kingdom of Tonga (in between filming devil stick tricks for TikTok), and Birdo is a second generation Vietnamese-Norwegian and is a 2596 rated Chess Grandmaster with heterochromia (she wears contacts when she’s working)
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What is the Oye Como Va of video games?
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