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look what happens if you don't write ethnocentric stuff about japan. it's 1 am and you only got one comment or whatever that is.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Super Madrigal Brothers. Established 2002.

Have you seen the Zelda fuzzy wristcuffs at Hot Topic? They're marked down. And they aren't marketed to me.

look what happens if you don't write ethnocentric stuff about japan. it's 1 am and you only got one comment or whatever that is.

I don't know what you do on Friday nights, but I hope you have greater thrills in your life besides chiding younger people on the Internet.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Super Madrigal Brothers. Established 2002.

Momus - always two steps ahead. Always. Even in the joke entries.

You boys must be proud!

your comment about picking up video games in 1996 is a little off base. im 18 right now, and graduated high school just last year. I, and many of my friends, had NES's in our homes growing up- discussing nes games in kindergarten and first grade was a major part of the socialization process for us, so i dont have a problem believing that current high school students' nostalgia is legitimate. the kids in high school now had older siblings growing up, they didnt grow up in bubbles.

You're right, although I still find it strange that games I played when I was 7 or 8 when they were the hottest thing around were still played by kids in the era of Super Nintendo and Sega CD.

Am I wrong to think there will be no nostalgia for the Super Nintendo?

Nick Currie. Est. 1960
David Marx. Est. 1978

With a cushy 18 year head start on Marxy, the big question is why isn't Momus a few MORE steps ahead!?

Agree with James.

I'm in high school and have been playing super nintendo games my whole life; granted, my siblings are 5 to 11 years older than me, but I remember the Super Nintendo era just fine. Also, I remember getting those '90s Nintendo Powers in the mail, and they're probably still in my room somewhere.

But we already established that your comments are a bit off base, right? :X That's okay.

It's also extremely popular to think Atari/Nintendo/Super Nintendo is cool. I think even JC Penny's is selling shirts with crap like "Old school!1" with a Nintendo controller these days, and of course, so is Hot Topic.

I can't wait to hear about Chronic-Narnia-Cles. Google is giving me nothing.

With a cushy 18 year head start on Marxy, the big question is why isn't Momus a few MORE steps ahead!?

Cos I'm "young at heart" and he's "older than his years"?

Youth gone wild?

You just really can't get enough River City Ransom these days--- it's totally and completely not overdone in the slightest.

Also, Chip Music is where it's at--- 8bit rocks.

Nick Currie. Est. 1960
David Marx. Est. 1978

does this simplify the oedipal thing ?

and, did you have to embaress me in front of everyone

I don't know what you do on Friday nights, but I hope you have greater thrills in your life besides chiding younger people on the Internet.

marxy, I'm sure some 33 year old is bemoaning your pong joke as well.

LCDsoundsystem had a jibe about young hipsters and their "nostalgia for the unremembered 80's". I think that once grunge comes back enough the same kids will be nostalgic for that. Highschoolers just lack the cultural clout to push nostalgia for the products of their own youths, and so cling to the well established late 80's.
Their hipster precociousness was every bit as present in people like you and me (est 1979) taking part in the popular revival of the 70's that spanned the early to mid 90's.

For a while, I wondered how history would treat the late 80s. I guess Nintendo is one of the more obvious high points. I don't see a big Debbie Gibson revival happening anytime soon, although you shouldn't quote me on that.

Marxy -- do you wear BluBlockers when you blog?

I too have to disagree with Marxy on this one. I'm 18 now and I got my NES when I was four or five years old. Everyone had a NES, and although it was technically the time of SNES and the Genesis (Megadrive around here), everyone was talking about the games they played on their NES, even those fortunate enough to have an 16-bit console. Our generation feels nostalgia towards NES games only, really, I can't think of anyone my age embracing the other cultural phenomena of the late 80's.

Oh, we also played games on Commodore 64's and Amigas. It was a lot cheaper and easier for parents to buy an old, used computer / game console than blow wads of cash on a spanking new SNES, because if someone had a NES or some other late 80's system, games could be traded and enjoyed by as much people as possible.

This is great. I'm out of touch with the kids, and they all surface to catch me up. Getting old has never been easier.

Mario Systems ...nintendo music set to piano.

Even general nostalgia for retro-gaming is a mystery to me--- spend any ammount of time with an NES emulator and you'll realise that moving a blocky pixilated blob over awkward jumping puzzles makes you want to smash your pc.

Something to remember is that once you got older, your parents sold your NES at a garage sale. Then the younger set would start with a used NES before graduating to an NES. I actually started with a 2600, in spite of its being far behind the curve. (Worth mentioning: NES games are mostly still fun/playable. With only a few exceptions, Atari games are not.) Of course, I'm post-collegiate, so maybe things changed in the 5 years between me and today's high schoolers.

Ahem, "graduating to an SNES."

atch me up. Getting old has never been

wait, see, you're being oedipalized from both ends.

I don't see a big Debbie Gibson revival happening anytime soon, although you shouldn't quote me on that.

i think certified bananas dropped the Shake-Your-Love drumapella on their Lemon-Red Mix a few months back (october maybe?)

in two years that 12" will be probably be worth real money.

to keep it japenese related, why is no one talking about the tongari kids song b-dash?

i think certified bananas dropped the Shake-Your-Love drumapella

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alin:wait, see, you're being oedipalized from both ends.

you dirty!