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> The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/06/the-suc
by Lammy 3y ago
> The ads were EVERYWHERE and people I knew who had never even owned a games console were buying the PS1.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/06/the-sucking-origins https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/06/the-sucking-or...
“When we saw the first commercials for the Playstation — glitzy, MTV style affairs that spoke to the sort of people we weren't — we began to worry. They were selling our heritage to the same fucking guys who used to beat us up in P.E.!”
- rovolo 3y ago> Our heritage Wow, that's quite the historical artifact. I can't get back into the headspace where people like PA thought they "owned" the concept of video games.
- sublinear 3y agoI'm so glad this phoney baloney marketing concept called "nerd culture" finally died during the covid years. It was the basis for a lot of silly crap on the internet that should long be dead by now.