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Nintendo + Neoliberalism looks like a really bad trip man. Whatever happened to the wonderful company Yokoi Gunpei made toys at?

• datavirtue 4y ago
  Same company, only recently engaged in direct sales to consumers.
  • kwatsonafter 4y ago
    Respectfully I disagree; Nintendo fell apart after he was willfully assassinated by Nintendo executives. (cough, cough). I think despite what is perceived as a recent renaissance (it isn't) The Big N (god do I hate myself) has never reclaimed it's pre-Lost Generation magic. There aren't people to replace that, "manga and computer games" generation in Japan. Hideaki Anno made comment on this a few years back: https://kotaku.com/evangelion-creator-predicts-the-death-of-anime-1706738732 https://kotaku.com/evangelion-creator-predicts-the-death-of-... I'm sincerely hoping the kids are still alright!
  • kwatsonafter 4y ago
    I think it's worth noting too (now that we're all in the same room) that despite a kind of mythology from people my age (31) that it really wasn't Shigeru Miyamoto and the 80's Star Fox brigade that made Nintendo what it was; Nintendo has and I hope always be a kind of weird ass toy company that happens to sell, "home computers." http://blog.beforemario.com/p/nintendo-before-mario.html http://blog.beforemario.com/p/nintendo-before-mario.html I would fight in bloody wars for a competent, "modern Famicom" with a sort of Mario Paint Forever built in.