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  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Honestly same. The passage of time is weird

    People think 52 is like super old… but really that’s just Gen X

    Hell you really wanna know how warped our perception of time is?

    Most people think 20 years ago Mario was an 8bit platformer that revitalized interest in video games after Atari killed the medium with oversaturation and nonexistent quality control.

    What was Mario 20 years ago? An aging mascot with a divisive summer themed pollution game that I loved but others seemed to hate, on a console that only did well with diehard fans… 20 years ago Nintendo wasn’t the big man on campus, that was Sony with the PS2 despite it being weaker than GCN and Xbox.

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          1 year ago

          Lemme break it down then…

          Most people, if asked what a Mario game, one of the most iconic and best selling franchises in gaming history… beaten out only by Pokemon (owned by the same company) was like 20 years ago, they’d describe this - https://youtu.be/7qirrV8w5SQ

          When in reality, Mario 20 years ago, was this - https://youtu.be/WIHFSgPv3Ak

          This is due to how bad of a perception of time we as humans seem to have… It works for other things

          20 years ago “Ah yeah that’s when we were using floppy disks right?”

          Heck my brother’s a pretty sharp guy, but at one point he seemed to think my dad’s generation grew up with black and white silent films, and not… Friday the 13th or Ghostbusters

          • Crass Spektakel@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Well, in the 1970/1980 there actually were still a lot of black and white movies on TV. “The Streets of San Francisco” “Kojak” “Dragnet” not to mention the endless reruns of Stan and Laurel.

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                1 year ago

                For reruns in Argentina, nothing beats Disney’s Zorro. It’s a full-on revered classic here.

                Wow, I remember that one too from my child hood. The German TV played it once, the Austrian TV played it like over and over again. Don’t ask me why but the Austrian TV was always miles better than the German TV. Living close to the border allowed us to watch both, sometimes even the Swiss TV which was usually attrocious.