Ahh, boomers…

  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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    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!

  • whenigrowup356@lemmy.world
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    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

  • Eccitaze@yiffit.net
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    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

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    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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        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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      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.