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@mjdxp he just has annoying zoomer opinions that ignore the contemporary time that consoles and games are released in when it comes to older games (and is also so so nintendo biased lmao) and also ignores a lot of the overseas history of things and then people watch the videos and start saying the exact same things as he said without actually reading any further into it. I like his main channel but the second channel is kinda like, hearing his dumb opinions just slightly too much as to be annoying

@mjdxp when I worked in a game shop back in the UK I had some coworkers who were younger than me and you could tell who got their opinions from youtube and Americans on the internet. People talking about how the snes was so good and successful (mega drive outsold it WILDLY in the uk) and saying "oh but chrono trigger", "oh but earthbound" like man those games didn't even release in this region?? Not saying the snes is bad and I'm very glad these titles are widely available to play now but when you talk about the history of consoles and games it has been so poisoned by American gamers on YouTube talking on the topic in an insular way it's frustrating lol

@Velveteen i think a lot of people into retro games should learn a lot more about the japanese gaming industry of the time because it's really completely different and really fascinating. i've never been huge into the NES but something about the famicom really hits the spot for me. the console design is way better, the cartridges have way more personality, there are a bunch of weird and cool variants like the twin famicom, there's the famicom disk system which is like its own console, and there's even stuff like a full on BASIC programming environment with a keyboard add on (which i do have!) there's also a lot of fascinating stories to be heard from countries such as post-soviet countries and china where nintendo never officially sold their consoles, so companies made their own clones and bootleg games (although i think calling them all "bootlegs" is really doing a disservice to the effort a lot of developers put into making some unlicensed games). i should also try to learn more about the european market, i've learned a bit about british home computers (and i really want to sit down and play elite some day) but i don't know as much about the console market

@Velveteen i do also kind of disagree on his opinions on atari 2600 games, i don't think he really "gets" them, i see them as amazing feats of engineering that miraculously end up being really fun and complex despite the ridiculously weak hardware available, but i get the feeling he doesn't really see them that way. i believe scott has said he plays atari 2600 games on a composite modded atari 7800, which i think kind of hurts the magic a bit. playing on an original 2600 with RF video is something else, it just feels a lot cooler to me than playing on a newer console with significantly better video output