Parents Upset Over New Nintendo Console - Super Nintendo - Circa 1991

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• sdcSpade@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• JTode@lemmy.world ⁨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…

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  • UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Commodore gang assemble!

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    • discomatic@lemmy.ca ⁨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.

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    • JTode@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • Drtrillphill@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah the OG Steam library

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• Fantomas@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • 1bluepixel@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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    • wjrii@kbin.social ⁨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.

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• Saneless@lemmy.world ⁨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

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• whenigrowup356@lemmy.world ⁨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

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• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨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!

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• transporteraccident1@lemm.ee ⁨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”?

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  • Saneless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a metaphor for their struggle. You think you can go back to better times but it’s just an illusion. Then you will explode

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• plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨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.

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  • neblem@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • Saneless@lemmy.world ⁨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

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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• hardypart@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Won’t somebody please think of the children!

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