If you meant “teenagers and older,” they didn’t play Metroid when it was contemporary either. They either didn’t play video games at all, played games on an IBM/Tandy/AppleII or went to corner arcades. The NES was designed and marketed strictly toward children who were too young to be teenagers.
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“I accidentally thought there was rocket ships in the 1400s. Easy mistake to make, but I edited it out, so it’s all good and the point still stands.”
I see that you made a reference to “complaining on websites” to another poster.
Oh, I don’t think Punk will be (successful). Shamrock was entering a fledgling, chaotic, free-form sport at 22 and carried an extreme size/fitness advantage over practically everyone he fought for the first 10 years.
“Electronics” and “NES” weren’t considered the same thing in the late 80s. You couldn’t go to an “electronics” or “computer game” store and buy a NES before Babbages (now called Gamestop) went national in around 91 or 92. Nintendo only shipped the NES to toy stores, which, otherwise, didn’t sell electronics. In 1988…
No adult gamer would have touched Nintendo in 1989 except as a joke, let alone talk to their co-workers about a character’s reveal in a kid’s magazine.
Nobody older played Nintendo. They all went to arcades.
Arcades were popular and it wasn’t uncommon for someone’s dad to, for example, play a rudimentary flight sim on his Apple II GS or whatever, but the NES was a different animal. There was a firm perception that that thing was just a toy.
In 1989 or so, anyone north of, say, 12 didn’t touch the NES (they went to arcades, if they played games at all) and anyone younger than 8 or so had trouble understanding they could guilt-trip their parents into buying one if they worked them long enough, so had no access unless they had an 8-11 year old brother with…
Dude, see this for what it is. It’s not some hyper-accurate flight sim; it’s a marketing tie in.
Ken Shamrock did make the transition from Studio wrestling to MMA, it just wasn’t WWE to UFC. He started out in some small WWE wannabee promotion and went from there to Pancrase in the early 90s.
Yeah, Lesnar outsized a lot of that division. Punk won’t have that advantage.
Yeah, I’m guessing he was and you weren’t.
Personally, I liked when they were just love/hate, though I’m sure you got angry emails from marketing people about it. Kept the reviews concise, easily scannable and to the point while remaining nuanced. It was left to the reader whether the author’s misgivings about a particular thing were meaningful to them or not
In this case, the victim is Eramo.
Presently, companions are Gods. Last night I AFKed with 3 mobs aggrod and returned to find them all dead and my Shadow tank at 100% health. This was in an instanced 2 man heroic mission, so it’s not like some passerby did me a solid.
I think 60% of all things I was doing after consolidating the old borders and throwing back the Aztecs was castrating minor nobles who had seduced one Empress or another.
There were thousands of castrated men running around my Restored Roman Empire because of that mod.
It’s not that hard. Just start small somewhere isolated and work your way from there to more complex stuff. Ireland and Iceland are popular, but I learned in the Pyrenees and then Austergotland.