GIZMONDO MAKING A COMEBACK – WE WILL FINALLY HAVE SOME NEW MATERIAL TO WORK WITH
All that’s up at the moment is a flash intro. And even that’s rubbish and doesn’t work very well. If this is an accurate teaser of what’s to come, many boots shall be filled over the coming months.
They’re already being half-hearted about it and can’t be bothered to think up names of their own for things. Very promising!
This odd message means it’s either a joke or is going to be an even more amusing disaster than the last time.
How is it possible to rise “again” when, initially, it didn’t rise above the level of industry joke? Roll on the Gizmondo comeback! Can we be highly-paid consultants with company cars, please?
filed in Uncategorized on Jan.23, 2008
January 23rd, 2008 on 4:04 pm
‘Psychic Worlds’? I want some of what they’re smoking.
January 23rd, 2008 on 4:38 pm
“How is it possible to rise “again” when, initially, it didn’t rise above the level of industry joke?”
You say that, but I personally witnessed some very powerful (and therefore clueless) people seriously considering stocking it in their major retail chain, before we peons vetoed it faster than a UN declaration that would actually sort something out.
It was so close. So close.
January 23rd, 2008 on 6:26 pm
“The legend is reborn”? I probably don’t need to say anything, rather leave a gap for poeple to fill with their own spluttering disbelief___________________.
On another note, is there even such a word as ‘Democratize’? Sounds like one of those corporate weasel words like ‘monetize’. I haven’t checked, but wouldn’t be surprised, the whole thing smacks of marketing consultancy anyway.
January 23rd, 2008 on 6:30 pm
It looks and sounds like an elaborate joke by some Uber Nerd. Probably the Quintin Tarantino of games.
January 23rd, 2008 on 7:19 pm
It only gets better… the flash intro is a template purchased off the shelf for $66.
Oh dear, and there was me hoping to shamelessly profit from a blog of their ludicrous spending. Sigh.
January 23rd, 2008 on 8:04 pm
I’m impressed that you tracked down the flash to a template. After the disaster of the handheld I’m surprised they have the balls to try anything else in the videogame market.
Oh and I too visited the Gizmondo shop for the brief time it was open on Regent’s Street. Apart from a bemused tourist and a floor salesman, I was the only one in there.
January 23rd, 2008 on 8:21 pm
A ukr forum? ukpforum.com
January 23rd, 2008 on 9:39 pm
I took a photo of the Gizmondo section of HMV. It was the day Nintendogs came out, whenever that was, so it did have a brief window of high street acceptance. And Argos.
I may have used the photo already, but probably didn’t seeing as it’s not here and that’s the day I took the photo.
Sorry. I don’t know why I bother leaving comments. They’re almost as dull as the actual updates.
January 23rd, 2008 on 11:35 pm
Man, a shitty games console with no games, advertised by retards and founded by organised crime! Hold me back!
January 24th, 2008 on 12:47 am
C’mon lenny, we’ve heard enough about the PS3 already! You late-bandwagon-jumping-on-er!
January 24th, 2008 on 12:57 pm
Would, would, wo… oh hang on.
January 24th, 2008 on 2:43 pm
Does the fact that I didn’t know what a Jizzmondo was until I read about it on UK:R make me ignorant, or does it simply highlight how shitty the whole shebang was?
Probably a bit of both.
NO WAIT! HE’S THE IMPOSTER!
I’ve jumped the gun again, haven’t I?
January 24th, 2008 on 2:57 pm
Someone needs to register gizmondolives.com and make some kind of funny joke using a picture of zombies or something.
I will, of course, take all the credit.
January 24th, 2008 on 3:14 pm
no
January 24th, 2008 on 5:32 pm
it appears to have been replaced with a logo created in microsoft paint.