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Editorials   Super Gamecube V.S. NES 5
- By Francis Bonnet

Well, Nintendo has quite a lot of thinking to do in the naming of their next console. My co-staffer Lander suggests that "Super Nintendo Gamecube" would be an ideal name, however, I'm rooting for "Nintendo Entertainment System 5." Since gaming news is somewhat slow as of late, let me waste everyone's time with this editorial in writing about why.

The Nintendo Entertainment System came out in 1985. That was Nintendo's first home console. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System came out in 1991 making it Nintendo's second home console (Gameboy & Virtual Boy don't count since they're portable systems, not home systems). When the Nintendo 64 was released in 1996, I thought that Nintendo screwed up royally because, let's face it, N64 was just a horrible name for a console; NES 64 would have made a MUCH better name. At any rate, the N64 was Nintendo's third home system and the Nintendo Gamecube in 2001 was their fourth. So now Nintendo has their new console being planned for release in 2004 or 2005 (maybe even 2006). So why name it the NES 5?

When you think about the naming of movies and their sequels, calling the next Nintendo console the Nintendo Entertainment System 5 makes perfect sense. You don't need to number every sequel in to understand how they relate to each other. When Jurassic Park was released, and then later The Lost World: Jurassic Park came out, no one questioned that it was the second movie in the series even though there was no "2" in the title. Later on, Jurassic Park III came out and all was well and understood. The Star Trek movies stopped numbering themselves after part VI, yet many people still refer to the newest Trek movie, Star Trek: Nemesis, as Part 10. Another really good example is Friday the 13th. Friday the 13th Part IV didn't have a "IV" in the title, it was simply called Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Paramount resumed numbering them again with part V and then stopped the numbering with part VIII. Jason Goes to Hell (part IX) didn't even have the infamous "Friday the 13th" in the title, but it was understood that it was part of a series. Jason X (part, uh X) again left the "Friday the 13th" out of the title but anyone with a brain knows that it's part 10 of the series. The point I'm trying to make is that the NES was the first in a series. Just because the last two home consoles (N64 & Gamecube) dropped the "Entertainment System" name, it doesn't mean that they aren't part of a series of quality Nintendo consoles, all which begain with the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Okay, so Nintendo's next system probably won't be called the NES 5 or Super Nintendo Gamecube. I can live with that, and I'm sure Lander can too. It's fun to toy with the idea, though. Maybe we should take Lander's idea of an NGenres poll a little more seriously... Lander's always got such good ideas (next to Eric, of course). Okay, I'm done wasting everyone's time now.