Comments on: silliness, laughter and fun http://cimota.com/blog/2008/09/23/silliness-laughter-and-fun/ Matt Johnston's Blog About Tech, Innovation, Startups, Opportunity ... and Sailing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:54:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Mike Cane http://cimota.com/blog/2008/09/23/silliness-laughter-and-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-26600 Mike Cane Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:00:04 +0000 http://cimota.com/blog/?p=1266#comment-26600 You watch people play those first-person kill-em-all games and the amount of concentration is fierce. It's like work. No looseness. All murderous tenseness. OTOH, when I first saw the Wii in NYC on its debut night, I thought, Geez, even a game spaz like ME could have some fun with THAT! I still recall how Nintendo was savaged for the lateness of it. And then how all the experts dissed it. (Hey, the same experts who dissed the iPod!) You watch people play those first-person kill-em-all games and the amount of concentration is fierce. It’s like work. No looseness. All murderous tenseness.

OTOH, when I first saw the Wii in NYC on its debut night, I thought, Geez, even a game spaz like ME could have some fun with THAT!

I still recall how Nintendo was savaged for the lateness of it. And then how all the experts dissed it. (Hey, the same experts who dissed the iPod!)

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