• @[email protected]
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    442 days ago

    And the Nintendo of my childhood was responsible for pretty much every anti-consumer practice and cultural trend concerning videogames during my childhood:

    Inventing the idea that videogames are toys only for little boys only for marketing purposes. Betraying and exploiting established relationships with developers. Screwing over partners on disc technology and reversing course to limit technology to be under their control. Supporting Jack Thompson throughout his campaign to ban all videogames with any adult content at all. Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit to hold the entire industry back. The list goes on.

    • Chloé 🥕
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      352 days ago

      you forgot:

      • making it mandatory for any 3rd party game to stay exclusive to the NES for 2 years, essentially giving themselves a monopoly
      • suing to make cheating devices like the game genie illegal (they failed, thankfully)
      • suing to make game rentals illegal (they also failed)
      • introducing the lockout chip, normalizing walled gardens on consoles, as well as region locking
    • fushuan [he/him]
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      92 days ago

      Wym only for boys, don’t you remember the sparkly pink “🌟✨✨🌟 Game Boy Advance SP Girls Ediiitiiooooonn 🌟✨✨🌟”

      /s