• Xenny@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Capitalism for you. The videogame market crash taught game producers at the time that they need to market sexually to young boys to keep the industry alive…and well they did that.

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        That example was also Sega being deliberately risqué compared to Nintendo., to the point that their slogan was “Sega does what Nintendon’t.”

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      Oh, minor miscommunication. Game sticks in that era had to start flacod due to technological limitations. If you don’t rotate it in a circle or a bit yiu are just gonna lose at Sonic or whatever.