{"id":48,"date":"2005-12-21T18:05:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/48"},"modified":"2005-12-23T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T19:33:06","slug":"absolutely-weird-igns-generation-nex-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/48\/absolutely-weird-igns-generation-nex-review","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely Weird: IGN’s Generation NEX Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generation SUXHeh. And I thought all this NEX stuff was over. It has come to my attention that IGN posted a review of the Generation NEX<\/a> yesterday on their site. And what’s more, they gave it a 9.5 out of 10<\/strong>. Whoa. They must have been on nostalgia overdrive to hand out a score like that to a piece of absolutely mediocre hardware<\/a>. Considering that the reviewer probably hadn’t played a NES game since 1992, I can almost forgive him for his enthusiasm (“WHOA!! You can still play NES games?! Dude!!”<\/em>). What’s more, IGN was apparently provided a set of Messiah’s wireless controllers for free (which cost $59.99 and don’t come with the unit) and that probably significantly improved their overall impression of the NEX. They should have reviewed the wireless controllers separately. I know that whether one likes\/dislikes the NEX is really a glass half-full or half-empty issue, but the NEX’s glass is definitely<\/em> not full enough to warrant a 9.5. I don’t know if I should be suspicious of IGN’s review integrity, or if they just don’t know any better.<\/p>\n

I stand firmly by my review<\/a>. But of course, I also respect the opinions of others who actually like the NEX. At least most of those people have the sense to take a realistic look at it (like my buddy Jake at 8-Bit Joystick<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Update (12\/23\/2005):<\/strong> I’m not the only one who thinks IGN’s review is weird. Take a look at this thread on the AtariAge forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heh. And I thought all this NEX stuff was over. It has come to my attention that IGN posted a review of the Generation NEX yesterday on their site. And what’s more, they gave it a 9.5 out of 10. Whoa. They must have been on nostalgia overdrive to hand out a score like that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-new-retro-reproductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}