tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448613549782052868.post7232359807212297128..comments2024-01-23T16:31:22.429-08:00Comments on The Nintendo Project: An 8-Bit Psychochronography: Elsewhere there be Dragons (Double Dragon, Double Dragon II, Double Dragon III)Elizabeth Sandiferhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18337209180846868581noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448613549782052868.post-55163540548025813002011-01-27T03:10:20.456-08:002011-01-27T03:10:20.456-08:00Wow.
...yes, I think I'll be subscribing via...Wow. <br /><br />...yes, I think I'll be subscribing via RSS, definitely...<br /><br />Very interesting blog. I always thought that the way video games marked the culture here is quite under-recognized by much of the older generation.<br /><br />I myself never owned a console, actually - only a 3/486 PC, and the staples of my childhood were games like Commander Keen, Bio Menace and Jazz Jackrabbit, none of which originated in Japan.<br /><br />Much later on, I realized that the number of people who played those iconic DOS games is absolutely dwarfed by the number whose childhood staples were Sonic and Mario (which I didn't get around to playing until over a decade after they came out).<br /><br />The Commander Keen community is still around making mods & fan sequels, and a few people even include Keen tributes in that modern equivalent of folk art, Flash animations (notably, TMST). But they're dwarfed by the huge number of sprite movies and "parodies" that people create featuring mostly characters from Nintendo and Sega systems:<br />http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/videogameparodies<br /><br />But the actual foundation of both of those cultural properties is a weird syncretism that's just incredibly bizarre, at least as bizarre as the syncretism between the Hellenistic and Hindu worldview that came about in the Indo-Greek Kingdom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com