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Nowhere does the us "center of the universe" mindset shine more through, then when to expect the world to remember the presidential dogs name.
by 21asdffdsa12 6mo ago
Nowhere does the us "center of the universe" mindset shine more through, then when to expect the world to remember the presidential dogs name.
- distances 6mo agoWell, the main hurdle was that we were 7-9 years old iirc and didn't know any English at all, beyond the memorized "knock knock" etc. So the topic of the questions wasn't on the table :-)
- lazyasciiart 6mo agoI love this story. I remember seeing two pre-literate kindergarten kids playing on a gameboy or similar handheld, one of them teaching the other strings of button presses for things like “save game” - just navigating through all the menus by memory.
- gambiting 6mo agoI played through the entire Pokemon Yellow without understanding a lick of english. You just remembered what the commands did, and you learnt by experimenting.
- bcjdjsndon 6mo agoEven as an English speaker the Pokémon all sounded gibberish to me so it wouldn't have been much help
- AyyEye 6mo agoThanks for this comment -- it dredged up a memory I had almost forgotten. I did this but inverted. When only pokemon red/blue were out in the US I downloaded a rom for pokemon yellow (discovered on whatever p2p I was using at the time) when searching for pokemon to play in an emulator. I didn't know it existed at the time and it was in Japanese. When I told my friends "pikachu follows you around!" None of them believed me.
- gambiting 6mo agoHaha, that's incredibly cool too! I actually played through a rom of Pokemon Green for the exact same reason - it was cool, no one at school believed me Pokemon Green was a real thing.
- riffraff 6mo agoI think everybody does this to some extent. Like, I remember someone telling me at one point that the thing in Head over Heels was a Dalek with prince Charles head. I didn't know either of those.
- yazantapuz 6mo agoI don't think that the larry games where to be released to the whole world.
- 21asdffdsa12 6mo agoLife is sweet, when you life in the cultural nexus that is a English speaking country and do not have to pay the translation tax.
- yazantapuz 6mo agoI live in south america.
- throwthrowuknow 6mo agoThat wasn’t the era of global releases via the internet. You had to either buy it in person or, order by mail or get a copy from a BBS. It was an American game made for Americans.
- gschizas 6mo agoRetail stores existed outside the US, even back then.