Well, there's not enough words to describe me. Thats because:
1- My Englsih don't suck, but it's far to be perfect
2- I can't make a decent Bio even in Portuguese (my native language).
My name is William (believe me, it's a common name even in my country. I'm from Brazil (live and born here), 20 years old, and... gamer. I play video games since I was a little and annoying 5 year old boy, it was an Generic Atari that I played, and I was completely in love for that thing. Yeah, in 1994 I was playing Atari games while you rich boys were playing your powerful PSX!
It's 1997, progress has come and after lots of lots of tears I won my 16-bit console that was my SNES in the time (my other lot of tears was useless against my evil dad and I didn't get a Mega Drive. yeah MEGA DRIVE, not GENESIS!), it was my partner for a long period of 3 years! This was the time that I really could call myself a real gamer, it's when my love for that freakin' brick plugged in my 14" CRT TV has finally bloomed (so emo T.T). Since that playful age I'm a fannatic for gaming and hee I am trying to write something about it.
NOTE:
That person from DeviantArt that I got the cartoon, please let me know if you mind! I still have the PSD. =X
First of all, we, brazilians, are not playing Zeebo, not the hardcore gamers! This console is totally "Parent Cheater" for us.
What's a "Parent Cheater", anyway? Let me help you guys to understand, I'll give you the example of a good father, in xmas time trying to please his little gamer son claming for his Next-gen console with a brand new super gaming machine that fits his "Pocket Power$". Our parents in this country are, most of them, a bunch of "newbies" when we talk about technology, and specially gaming, no matter how much they love their sons, they will ever buy that "cute and as cheap as possible thing", look at this console:
now, little closer:
Resident Evil 4: Zeebo.
Yeah, it's the Cellphone edition. And the Crash Nitro Kart Racing is the iPhone adapted for the joystick.
Off course this console is cheaper than a PS3 and Xbox360 here, let's compare:
A Xbox360 costs officially R$1,899.00 here (the offcial Brazilian kit including Too Human + PGR4), and at least R$1,250.00 by Import, a PS3 80GB about R$1,490.00 (There's no official kit, it's imported) on the Stores, a Nintendo Wii about R$1,799.00 (I SWEAR!). And a Zeebo, well, Zeebo you can take home paying "just" R$599.00. Thats R$100.00 cheaper than a PS2 (the most popular console here).
Edit: R$ 1.703 = US$ 1.00
(That absolutely and unproportional prices are govermental taxes)
I'm not saying that our kids should not play Zeebo just because their parents couldn't bring at least a Playstation 2 inside their home. I'm just saying that if you want to please your hardcore gamer son, please, DON'T MAKE SURPRISES! Avoid this kind of situation:
Zeebo can cause it!
But please, if you're not able to buy even a PS2 for him, please explain the situation, have a talk to your son, let him decide if he wants a Zeebo, if he wants there's nothin' wrong! It's good for him to have fun after all!
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