Ahh, boomers…
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It’s okay to critisize, but spoiling the end of Super Mario World is just spiteful.
Culture was just different back then. Spoilers weren’t a big deal, except maybe for Star Wars fans.
I remember the era when anime episodes would tell you what would happen in it, if someone dies and stuff like that.
When the first NES came out I was over there with my C64 and my shoebox full of disks with games I hadn’t tried yet like, lol suckers.
I wish I had seen this, there might have been a moment when we could’ve shifted some parental money from Nintendo to Commodore with the right campaign, and kept the Amiga going…
Commodore gang assemble!
I learned programming on my 64 at 8 years old. I typed in the code from a programming book, ran it, saw what it did, and changed it around to alter the output to my liking.
I’ve made a whole career out of that.
I have lamented, many times, the fact that they took SO long to get Super Mario Brothers working on the 64. If they had done that the year after the NES came out, history would look very different, you ask me.
Ah the OG Steam library
Watching his boomer ass go backwards around that track whilst aspousing the evils of video games tells you everything you needed to know back then, now and forever.
I think he was throwing shade on the parents by showing how much fun he was having. Though why he went in reverse is a boomer mystery.
The story is so weird, like somebody (the reporters? Nintendo?) wanted to do a puff piece that was just letting people know the SNES was coming out and it looked cool, but somebody else wanted a serious but uncreative “outrage” angle so they tacked it on and then promptly ignored it. Dude’s literally playing FZero on the weather department’s green-screen.
The shade those parents must’ve felt to have their interviews used in what turned out to be free marketing for Nintendo lol
So parents think it’s a big taking advantage of you conspiracy to get you to spend $200 every 5 years but I don’t remember seeing these news stories about cars lasting 5-7 years and needing to be replaced
Remember, news has always manufactured outrage for its customers (advertisers). Guess Nintendo didn’t spend enough on the network
This is great, thanks for sharing! Parental anxiety will never stop.
There are several places where the reporters don’t use what would today be typical words for things. I guess at that time the general public wouldn’t have understood words like “graphics” or “platform”?
It’s a metaphor for their struggle. You think you can go backwards to better times but it’s just an illusion. Then you will explode
dude I remember this outrage. Kind of funny that we now expect some inter-generational compatability from our consoles. I guess it’s less scary for the platform holder now that most sales are digital.
To be fair, siege protectors with a ton of outlets weren’t a thing back then so it was a real struggle when you were already using your 2 outlets
And emulation is so much easier, so if you don’t make legal access easy, you are stopping an easy revenue stream.
Fun fact, that $200 in 1991 would be about $450 today. The most expensive Nintendo console today is the Switch OLED at $360. Nintendo is beating inflation!
Good that they do, because our wages sure aren’t.
Wait, you mean you get a wage?!
If you’re a high skill player, meaning you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old…
Haha I love it
She’s got hair like that cat Pepé le Pew wants to hook up with.
Is that April from TMNT?
A moment of silence in honor the sacrifice of Kent Shocknek, taken from this world too early while trying to jump his car o7
