Nintendo's Duty
By Fred the mew
Fredsite2@aol.com

Ten years.  After a bitter cold war with Sega, the constant nuisance of new consoles, and a
flashy attempt to give it external flare, Gameboy is finally going color.  All the Barriers of
battery life and resolution have been dropped, and we are seeing the dawn of a new age.  In the
next few years, we will see the rise of more and more "dedicated" GBC games, A disc drive for the
N64, and a rumored Y2K "surprise".  And now I ask - what does the future hold for this, the third
age of Nintendo?


Sega keeps coming back like a hedgehog under some bad arsenic.  Sony is planting its roots firmly
in the video game industry.  Nintendo has been around for over 100 years, will it last another
hundred, or longer?


We will probably see the advent of a portable Gameboy64 system on Gameboy's 20th.  We are
probably only one or two years away from a 128 bit console (don't start yapping about dreamcast,
it's really only 64).  The space race was lost by the good guys years ago - will the race for the
Ultimate console see a similiar fate?  I'm one that likes to think that nintendo will usher in
the so-called "Trekkie" age of video games.  In our lifetimes, games will leave screens and go on
to holograms, Virtual reality the likes of which we've never seen, and even a simulation game
which goes beyond Artificial Intellegence and enters the realm of actual intellegence.  Gameboy
Color is the first in a new age of consoles.  Quality+Quantity+Nintendo=Whoa. If Nintendo truly
wants to become the Leading Megacorp it deserves to be, it must be ready to fight agresively
against it's foes.  That's one crossfire I wouldn't mind getting caught in.