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uglyteradon
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My Amazon UK pre-order is still sitting pretty... I'm contemplating having it shipped to a friends house out there and have them mail it to me. Is that smart or just paranoid?
Giant_Gamer
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I'm glad that you are able to really enjoy Super Punch-Out, and thankfully we don't have to choose one over the other.
If I get this SNES I will play all the games, including SPO. But I remember not having any fun with it when my mom rented it from Blockbuster as a kid.
The number 1 game I look forward to playing is FF3(6), but probably not before I check out what the Super FX Yoshi's Island looks like. (I only ever played it on GBA, I love this game!)
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They stated any change to the order may result in a later shipping date...I honestly wouldn't risk it personally.
I wouldn't touch it, personally.
What I would do is try to get a preorder from another site that ships to the UK and get a back up order to your friend who can ship it to you.
If Amazon UK let you check out, then they will ship. When the "item won't ship to US" notice suddenly appears, it means an item is low stock.
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Um, the Internet existed in 1998, it was pretty ubiquitous by the point.
Giant_Gamer
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Aww. Hi new friend! Punch Out is not a bad game... There isn't a bad game on the list.
I have no real attachment to it, but I am willing to play it and try it again.
reaperztoll
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41% of adults in the USA used the internet in 1998 and only 147 million people worldwide which was 3.6% of the world population. So I'd have to disagree.
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Cherry-picked stats for the win!
"Adults" include a pretty hefty number of older people who don't even use the internet today. And using the entire "world" population as the pool is even worse. The internet was definitely in wide-spread use in the US 1998. I ran a school district website back in 1996 in rural America and it was widely used by both parents and kids. Sure that's anecdotal, but still.
"Adults" include a pretty hefty number of older people who don't even use the internet today. And using the entire "world" population as the pool is even worse. The internet was definitely in wide-spread use in the US 1998. I ran a school district website back in 1996 in rural America and it was widely used by both parents and kids. Sure that's anecdotal, but still.
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Not doubting you, as many people have said it's likely they're going to ship, but how are you so sure?
Boozle061083
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Sorry but I have to chime in here. You're saying the internet wasn't widely used in 1998 yet the Sega Dreamcast had a 56k modem for online play and web browsing just one year later in 1999 and the PS2 had a modem just two years after that in 2001 so....
reaperztoll
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The US Census says 42% of homes owned 1 or more computers in 1998. That means 58% of homes owned less than 1. I'm not cherry picking anything I'm going off of the available data.
The term used was ubiquitous, "present, appearing, or found everywhere", which the internet was most certainly not.
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My first internet usage was in 1996. Remember n64.com before it was a Nintendo-owned domain. :lol: So much has changed ...
My family owned a computer by 89 or 90 (I think), but it wasn't hooked up to the internet. Wasn't a Windows PC, either. Could do word processing for school, which was what it was for, though.
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NES had online stock stuff in Japan in the 80s. SNES had satellite access for "online" play.
Stridix
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There are some UK sites for UK residents only that could still be taking preorders. I would advise to order it from those sites and do that instead.
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Petey Parker
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He never said the Internet didn't exist. In 1998 many people were just getting or didn't even have Internet access yet depending on where you lived.
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I was on AOL 3.0 I think it was back in 1996. You had to pay $3 per hour for AOL. My grandpa would yell at me to get off the internet all the time because we didn't have much money as it was, plus he couldn't use the (rotary dial) telephone while I was connected.
Conversations in AOL chatrooms were like:
tohel69: Hey baby, A/S/L?
SugarBabyXxX: 14/m/ur moms house btch
Conversations in AOL chatrooms were like:
tohel69: Hey baby, A/S/L?
SugarBabyXxX: 14/m/ur moms house btch
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Helldweller87
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Well if they do what they did with the Skyward Sword Amiibo - only Prime members will get to order and it will be limited to 1 per account which would be nice.
I was able to pre-order a Breath of the Wild LE from Amazon UK and after 10 minutes or so, I figured I'd order a second one (to keep sealed) and that's when I noticed the "won't ship to US" note and couldn't check out. The item was OOS a bit afterwards. The following day, it came back in stock and I was able to order a 2nd one just fine- and then again, an hour later it showed the "won't ship to US" again. I received both copies just fine. There are items that have the "won't ship to US" at all times and I find that these are items that are usually larger CEs.
I used to import a lot and I think it's due to VAT, and this is simply my theory: for a large retailer like Amazon, I'd imagine it's to hard to keep track of how much VAT they collect vs how much they sell, so when it comes to reporting that VAT to the government, they need to explain why they collected less than sales- as they shipped a number of units to foreign countries and thus did not collect VAT. Once the numbers get low, they stop foreign sales so as to avoid complications. Again, my theory, I could be 100% wrong. There's really nothing wrong with trying to get a backup just in case.
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happydogs
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LOL that made me remember when Ocarina came out, and Nintendo wanted to register zelda.com, but it was already registered. It was a porn site. Nintendo tried to buy it from them, but the owner refused, and N had to settle for zelda64.com. At least the porn guys were nice enough to put a warning message on the front page that their site had nothing to do with Nintendo or The Legend of Zelda, and may have even had a redirect to the actual site.
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Totes!!!
My brother worked at Nobody Beats The Wiz back then. We used their log in info to get free dial up at home for years. Great times, those were.
maykol
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Super Punch Out is not the weakest game here. I had a blast playing that game and it improved on the original punchout. If you play it again I am sure you will realize how much strategy goes into beating your opponent in the shortest time possible.
To me, the Kirby games and Starfox game are weak. But then again they are Nintendo IP.
Petey Parker
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There was the internet, just not what we see here and now. I remember around 95/96 or so using Netscape that I had to purchase. It was mainly hyper link driven IIRC. AOL was coming into it's own around then I believe.
After that, around 97-98 I remember using webtv for internet but pretty basic.
Having a modem in a console for online play back in the Dreamcast and PS2 days wasn't really full blown internet.
Hell I had 56k modem in 93 but all I connected to was BBS sites. Hell, I can remember logging into the BBS sites on my buddies Commodore 64 and 1200 baud. Lol. That was slow.
Ah good ok days.
Kirbys Dream Course is not only weak, but a pretty lousy game overall. I know it has it's fans, but I've never met anyone who remembers it fondly.
Grammaton-Cleric
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Count me in as another defender of Super Punch Out!
That game is fantastic and in many ways better than the original, which is also one of my favorite games of all time.
That game is fantastic and in many ways better than the original, which is also one of my favorite games of all time.
thegame956
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Saturday night slam masters, sunset riders, shadowrun, super double dragon!!!!
Yeah. Super Punch Out was pretty awesome, definitely better than Dream Course. I would have to rank them roughly this way -
Masterpiece tier -
Final Fantasy VI
Super Metroid
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Secret of Mana
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Earthbound
All time classic tier -
Mega Man X
Donkey Kong Country
Contra III
Awesome tier -
Street Fighter II Turbo
Kirby Super Star
Yoshis Island
Super Castlevania IV
Super Punch Out
Great tier -
Starfox
F-Zero
Super Ghouls and Ghosts
Kirby Dream Course tier -
Kirby Dream Course
Masterpiece tier -
Final Fantasy VI
Super Metroid
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Secret of Mana
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Earthbound
All time classic tier -
Mega Man X
Donkey Kong Country
Contra III
Awesome tier -
Street Fighter II Turbo
Kirby Super Star
Yoshis Island
Super Castlevania IV
Super Punch Out
Great tier -
Starfox
F-Zero
Super Ghouls and Ghosts
Kirby Dream Course tier -
Kirby Dream Course
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WOW that is horrible, this whole time I was thinking Kirby 3, I didn't realize it was Kirby DREAM COURSE...what a waste of a slot.
Stridix
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Even Toys-R-Us in Canada is beating the guys in the US in updating their pages....seriously what is going on in the US of A?
http://www.toysrus.ca/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=132733516&fv=2510384&f=Taxonomy&fd=&fg=&keywords=snes&x=-1072&y=-170&foreSeeBrowseSampling=15&foreSeeBrowseLoyalty=1&foreSeeEnabled=true
http://www.toysrus.ca/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=132733516&fv=2510384&f=Taxonomy&fd=&fg=&keywords=snes&x=-1072&y=-170&foreSeeBrowseSampling=15&foreSeeBrowseLoyalty=1&foreSeeEnabled=true
Mark_VI1955
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Me. I remember you could only send a handful of e-mails per month without incurring fees. Good times.
ftfy
Super Star is by far the best Kirby game ever made.
I agree with your putting Dream Course as its own tier though... lol.
It'll be hacked fast. Lol.
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