in response to prior Croc-posting
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that whole era is amazing. especially the sheer amount of “sonic is fucking over” energy. the ridiculous amount of agression over all these loose zoo animals collecting gems and fruit or whatever.
this vexx ad is something else though they dont even call out actual game characters it’s just like “why are you playing OTHER games instead of vexx”
just a cornball era
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my theory is that several generations of advertisers were so hypnotized by that Keystone Light commercial about “bitter beer face” that they were convinced the secret to success is just like relentlessly trashing the competition in your ads in as grotesque a way possible
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and then of course this is all part of the great ‘console wars,’ the aftermath of which created a spawning ground for the worst elements of ‘gamer culture’
going to make a 4 hour youtube video connecting ‘bitter beer face’ to donald trump being elected president via gamergate
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must deliver the narration in your best fake adam curtis voice though.
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It is so hard to tell what’s going on in that Vexx ad. At first his hand sort of looked like a crown with a bunch of goop on it? It is so huge and the mascots are so small?? They aren’t instantly recognizable as parodies of other mascots? They could be anything?? I thought the Nise Lara Croft was Hermie Hopperhead and the boobs were his knees??
I just woke up and Vexx is one of the first things I saw and I feel like this is a bad omen??
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It was, in short, a nightmare … on Elm Street.
The thing is - they started on the wrong side in a war they couldn’t win.
cue song montage, set to indie music. Wait, chiptune indie music.
this reminds me of the little overworld messages in the shareware episode of Jill of the Jungle that are very much like this:
this one is extra funny in retrospect:
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Nearly all the envelope art in EGM was the same vibe with Mario and Sonic doing Fatalities™️ on each other and the like.
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how even third party c-tier nintendo switch games are like £50 several years after launch
otherwise i’d probably fuck with astral chain
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Relatedly, one thing I often think about is how people feel the need to retcon a worldview where pricing of intangibles like videogames is more grounded in the factors of production than it actually is
Once I expressed irritation on a twitch chat that all three console vendors now have moved to a subscription model just to access multiplayer whereas it was free on Playstation in the early days, and the streamer angrily insisted that that’s how much the servers cost
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Yeah the lowest they ever seem to go is like 40 a few times a year, but ones like Astral Chain get largely forgotten, meaning they almost always just stay at 60.
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it just won’t vacate my skull
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Tamanegi flavor
(Tamanegi flavor)
Wish I was a playa
(Wish I was a playa)
I’m a tax payer
(I’m a tax payer)
Need a good lawyer
(Need a good lawyer)
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“big chungus is more famous than bugs bunny himself” is a deeply kojima statement
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not just the voices but the writing is so on-voice
pedantically explaining jokes in exactly, scientifically, the least funny manner
a wikipedia article culminating in the end of history! and ambition
“I will not let myself be cursed by my recessive memes”
glorious
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I am going to be thinking about how i could stare at that overblown unreadable TV and identify the game in less than 10 seconds.
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