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Teens React to Nintendo (NES)
- Thread starter Cody_D165
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sixteen-bit
Member
if you include Dreamcast, gen 6 started 16 years ago... so this age bracket
KillerMan91
Member
Well you are pretty rare exception. You were born same year as SNES released in US(if you are -91 like me). PS1 was the shit for most of people born early 90s and if we assume these guys are something like 6 years younger sixth gen is perfectly normal time for their gaming start.
KojiKnight
Member
My 4 year old not only knows more about the NES, but is way better than these teenagers... We sure these videos aren't staged?
burritosenior
Member
Gosh, they make me feel old. I'm not old. I find this disturbing. I loved my NES.
Duane Cunningham
Member
All this stuff is so stupid. Every time someone feigns (or justifies) ignorance of things because they were born after whatever it is, I cringe. "Who's Nirvana, I was born in 1995, lol"... piss off. The Beatles broke up well before I was born, too, it doesn't mean I never heard of them.
I don't think these videos are representative of kids in general, they're just representative of dumb kids with zero natural curiosity.
They should make a video called "Teens react to Abraham Lincoln" and it's just full of "who's THAT, haha, I was born in 1998! Why does he dress like that??"
I don't think these videos are representative of kids in general, they're just representative of dumb kids with zero natural curiosity.
They should make a video called "Teens react to Abraham Lincoln" and it's just full of "who's THAT, haha, I was born in 1998! Why does he dress like that??"
Maybe not the reactions and their shitty playing, but most likely the whole "You'll need to blow the cartridge for it to work." It shouldn't have happened more than once to one teen, but to all of them? Staged as hell.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I'm 20, my first console was a Game Boy Color in late 2001, then an Xbox, which was promptly sold for a GameCube. After loving the GameCube I went back and bought an N64, but sixth gen was my first home console
I love the one girl's comment: "Wait, how do you know the code?"
ARE YOU SOME SORT OF OMNISCIENT GAMING GOD?
Zeyphersan
Banned
Oh come off it. They don't know what a NES is, they're not brain dead. Why would a person who has no interest in modern games know about ones from before they were born? It's not a format like VHS, or a band like the Beatles, or a historical figure like Lincoln. It's a game system, which yes, to a person who doesn't play games, is a foreign thing
I swear some of you people just type out angry things without thinking
Metaternal
Member
Yeah, that was actually the most surprising thing in the video. I was expecting 5 at the most.
For the hell of it, I'm also 23 and my first console was a Genesis when I turned 5.
Starwolf_UK
Member
So like how did they "break" every single NES in such a way that was reproducible and only needed blowing. Also sucks that the blowing myth is kept (I thought it was inside the NES that was problem caused by things bending due to the silly cassette style loading it had).
I found it odd how they had a CRT here but for Punch-Out the teens were stuck playing on a (probably laggy) LCD.
I also found it sad how you could have an NES style iPhone case and not be aware of what it is referencing. I mean I don't think it is ironically pretty or anything.
I found it odd how they had a CRT here but for Punch-Out the teens were stuck playing on a (probably laggy) LCD.
I also found it sad how you could have an NES style iPhone case and not be aware of what it is referencing. I mean I don't think it is ironically pretty or anything.
MiniBossBattle
Member
I feel old but my older co-workers mock me for not playing on the Atari 2600. That said, the new designer's first console was the N64/Game Boy Color.
19, and my first console was an N64, but by the time I got it the ps2 was already out and all I had for it was SM64 (the first game I can remember playing), Mario kart, and later on OOT. Got a GameCube a little later and put an enormous amount of time into it. I consider that what got me into gaming.
sixteen-bit
Member
Epic hipster status tho.
I guess I just never really thought about it. I'd probably be more aware if I had kids, but then again I guess it also has to do with whether or not you knew people with older family members that had the systems too. There is actually a younger crowd into retro games now though.
I know the Sonic fans are aware, they cant help it lol.
I wonder how younger wii u owners feel about Nes remix?
What? That's just how NES consoles work. My NES hasn't worked without blowing on the cartridges since probably 1992.
You sound angry.
MikeXXIeaf
Banned
This.
Finebros. are absolutely wrong for trying to frame these videos as some sort of "sign of the times". They're getting the most stereotypical teens who are probably clueless about a lot of things and cherry-picking the most dumbfounded reactions. It's all in good fun but that's all it is. These videos don't represent anything.
Bomber Bob
Banned
eighteen
Everybody dies at the first goomba. Mario's physics is unintuitive like that.
The Metroid brand had a pretty huge resurgence in the west from 2001-2008ish (thanks to the Prime trilogy). It was right up there with Mario and Zelda. So it's no surprise that children born in the 90s who grew up in the 2000s would recognize Metroid.
You know I have never made that connection before. *mindblown.gif*
Candeldandel
Member
When the one kid asked "Has anyone beat the first level?" and the reply was "Everyone", for a second I thought he meant EVERYONE, EVER, as opposed to everyone who was reviewing it. What kind of a question is that?!
That was more heartening than the Game Boy vid, at least. There were a few who were really into it! They'd like the SNES even more... Though it makes me sad to think of gamer kids that've grown up without one
That was more heartening than the Game Boy vid, at least. There were a few who were really into it! They'd like the SNES even more... Though it makes me sad to think of gamer kids that've grown up without one
Zeyphersan
Banned
Not angry, maybe mildly annoyed?
No doubt, I'm one of those kids, grew up playing metroid prime. All I'm saying is Nintendo needs to hurry the hell up. :/
itzknickknac
Member
This video made me feel extremely old and I'm 25.
Duane Cunningham
Member
Lincoln my have been an exaggeration (for comedic effect), but I think as sheer pop culture iconography goes, NES, The Beatles and VHS all carry close to the same modern day general awareness.
JesseEwiak
Member
If you're an old man, sure. But, blluntly, why would a fifteen year old who wasn't even born when DVD's came out know what a NES or VHS is? That's like expecting to know what an 8-track was if you grew up in the 90's.
Dirty carts man. Not the console.
Nah, I cleaned my carts to high hell and my games didn't start working EVERY TIME until I put in a new 72 pin connector.
Zeyphersan
Banned
No child born in the last five years will know what a VHS is, and nothing of value will be lost. Not to say that the NES isn't valuable, but c'mon, they're VHS tapes.
Hell, I was born in 1993 and I've never seen an 8-track. I know what it is, but I've never seen one.
DonMigs85
Member
OsirisBlack
Banned
Made me feel old as hell..... the punch out video was priceless ... they should add an older gamer to their series to show these kids how to get it done.
Zeyphersan
Banned
I was actually pretty proud of the kids playing Punch-Out. People like to talk shit about how kids these days just want an easy ride and when a game gets hard they drop it, but they seemed to be legitimately enjoying the simple challenge
Revolutionary
Member
Pretty entertaining watch.
Oh and lol @ the kid saying Xbone. The name is here to stay, people!
Oh and lol @ the kid saying Xbone. The name is here to stay, people!
victreeb3l
Member
"I have an iPhone case that looks like this!"
Oh man.
Oh man.
sixteen-bit
Member
They reused that line from the Game Boy episode. Shit's scripted as fuck.
evilromero
Member
More kids knew Metroid than Zelda. But it doesn't sell!
But it doesn't sell!