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Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991 (www.youtube.com)

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Ahh, boomers...

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[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Funny enough now I think this conspiracy is truer than ever, because only a handful of new releases actually require the full capabilities of a PS5 or an XSX, and most of them are being made by first-party studios to sell those consoles.

If we think of phones, that is definitely true. To the point some brands like Apple have been found actively undermining older devices to sell new ones.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Sony made it even more deliberate. They blocked sales on PS3 for the same games that were on PS4. So a game may be $40 and on sale for $12 on PS4 but it would stay $40 on ps3. Developers complained about it and it was out of their hands

Didn't happen on Xbox. And of course on steam it was the same game all along

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[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Good that they do, because our wages sure aren't.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Wait, you mean you get a wage?!

[-] Fantomas@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 1bluepixel@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] wjrii@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was outrage marketing. That's more common today, but even back day there were ads trying to sell games like Sonic by saying that your mom wouldn't like it.

[-] JTode@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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...

[-] UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Commodore gang assemble!

[-] discomatic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I did the same thing, but before I could actually read. The program didn't run lol

[-] JTode@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Drtrillphill@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Ah the OG Steam library

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

It's okay to critisize, but spoiling the end of Super Mario World is just spiteful.

[-] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Sc00ter@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

If you're a high skill player, meaning you have the skill of a 9 or 10 year old...

Haha I love it

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As he's driving in reverse

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The shade those parents must've felt to have their interviews used in what turned out to be free marketing for Nintendo lol

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

She’s got hair like that cat Pepé le Pew wants to hook up with.

[-] transporteraccident1@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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"?

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Imgonnatrythis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Is that April from TMNT?

[-] SRo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Wow - I think this is the first time on social media that someone uses boomers correctly. What a day.

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

A moment of silence in honor the sacrifice of Kent Shocknek, taken from this world too early while trying to jump his car o7

[-] hardypart@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

This is great, thanks for sharing! Parental anxiety will never stop.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Won't somebody please think of the children!

[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"Things have definitely come a long way since Pac-Man".

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Huh, at 1:38 you can see the Super Mario World title screen also show "Super Mario Bros. 4". I legitimately have never seen that. Must have only been in a beta/marketing release.

[-] endslavemorality@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Super Mario Bros. 4

That title screen was one of the founds in the 2020 Nintendo Gigaleak.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, Super Mario World was developed at the same time as Mario 3. They even used Mario 3 assets in the early builds. They wanted to make 3 as a send off of the NES and World as a highlight of what the SNES could do.

[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] neblem@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And emulation is so much easier, so if you don't make legal access easy, you are stopping an easy revenue stream.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

So I'm pretty sure that was meant to be surge protection, but for a minute there i was thinking I totally missed out on the part of the 90s console wars where they rolled out the trebuchets.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Android's keyboard and random changing of things is going to drive me to iOS someday

[-] dunestorm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is this the same year Karen was invented?

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