Made a scene while playing Trivial pursuit... - Off-Topic

#1 Posted by GenghisJohn (243 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

" this console launched in 2001 was the first to have a built in hard drive and broadband connection?". So of course I answer the Xbox. Nope, the fucking card says the GameCube.

Fuck you trivial pursuit card writer!

#2 Posted by tunaburn (1824 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

well the gamecube did come out before the xbox. same year but earlier. so it was technically the first to have those things right?

#3 Posted by Hizang (8536 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

The GameCube had zero online functionality though right, so why would it need that?

#4 Posted by thebroken (105 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@Hizang said:

The GameCube had zero online functionality though right, so why would it need that?

You could play Phantasy Star Online. I think those might be the only online games.

#5 Posted by Superfriend (1278 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@tunaburn said:

well the gamecube did come out before the xbox. same year but earlier. so it was technically the first to have those things right?

Did your Gamecube have a harddrive? Mine sure as hell didn´t. As for online, you needed some weird nintendo like addon adapter to play Phantasy Star online and the other few games that had online modes.

#6 Posted by notdavid (541 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

I'm pretty sure the Gamecube had neither of those things built in. Online required an adapter, and I've never heard of a hard drive for it. In short, fuck Trivial Pursuit.

#7 Posted by Deadbutt (15 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

Don't worry breh, it's only a game.

#8 Posted by Sumbog (449 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

Game Cube had memory cards... Maybe it had an tiny bit of internal storage?

#9 Edited by Apparatus_Unearth (2742 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@tunaburn said:

well the gamecube did come out before the xbox. same year but earlier. so it was technically the first to have those things right?

According to this secret awesome website I know of called GiantBomb, the Xbox came out 3 days before the GameCube.

#10 Edited by htr10 (305 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@Apparatus_Unearth said:

@tunaburn said:
well the gamecube did come out before the xbox. same year but earlier. so it was technically the first to have those things right?
According to this secret awesome website I know of called GiantBomb, the Xbox came out 3 days before the GameCube.

Proof that the TC has had an unjust deed inflicted upon him! Gentlemen, we must take to the streets!

#11 Posted by chocolaterhinovampire (1115 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@thebroken said:

@Hizang said:
The GameCube had zero online functionality though right, so why would it need that?
You could play Phantasy Star Online. I think those might be the only online games.

it was a 56k modem

#12 Posted by Oldirtybearon (3097 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@GenghisJohn said:

" this console launched in 2001 was the first to have a built in hard drive and broadband connection?". So of course I answer the Xbox. Nope, the fucking card says the GameCube.
Fuck you trivial pursuit card writer!

That's goddamn rough, man. I've ran into situations like that with trivia games before and it's an absolute bitch trying to convince the people you're playing with that no, you're right, the asshole who fact-checked the question is wrong.

Hopefully someone else could back your claim and secure dat wedge.

Online

#13 Posted by Little_Socrates (5439 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@notdavid said:

I'm pretty sure the Gamecube had neither of those things built in. Online required an adapter, and I've never heard of a hard drive for it. In short, fuck Trivial Pursuit.

Here's the Online Adapter's instruction booklet, as found through Wikipedia.

Can't find even a tiny internal hard drive in the specs. No hard drive.

#14 Posted by TooWalrus (11834 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

@chocolaterhinovampire said:

@thebroken said:
@Hizang said:
The GameCube had zero online functionality though right, so why would it need that?
You could play Phantasy Star Online. I think those might be the only online games.
it was a 56k modem

Actually there was both a Broadband adapter & a 56k Modem adapter. Neither was built in, though. I seriously considered getting a Broadband adapter for Mario Kart... but it was like $100, and I was 13.

#15 Posted by Jayzilla (2391 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago

because none of your friends or you had a phone lying around that you could use to google the facts about any of that?

#16 Posted by NecroMongo (46 posts) - 4 months, 22 days ago