Happy 24th anniversary, Nintendo GameCube

[Prowler]

Well when I was a teenager in 2003-2007 and I'd mention NES games to my classmates they'd usually be like "that's so old!" and not care. The older games they'd care about were the ones they played when they were little kids. Usually Mega Drive, PS1 and Game Boy games. So, Sonic, Crash, Pokémon, etc.

Keep in mind most kids I knew back then were casuals and thus weren't looking for emulators or anything online to play games from systems they never had. Of course there were also "nerds" like me who did that, but we were in the minority.

I know "geek culture" is more socially acceptable nowadays than ever, but are most people aged 25 and under nowadays really watching retrogamers on Youtube and Twitch instead of watching those big channels that play modern popular games like Fortnite?

The N64/PS1/Saturn are to those kids the same thing the NES and the Master System were for people of my generation (1990) when we were kids. Unless you grew up with a significantly older brother(born in 1983) like me, you'd never get to play the NES as a kid. Even though I loved the NES when I was 5-6 years old and was introduce to it, by then it was considered a pretty old console. And the majority of kids are not exaclty open minded when it comes to older stuff, let's face it.

Ofc some people aged 25 and under might be curious about Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye and Super Mario 64. Occasionally you see someone on Reddit sharing that they're playing OOT for the first time ever, whether it's on the N64 NSO app or the Nintendo 3DS or something. But I seriously doubt those people are the majority. They would rather be playing the latest hot Switch or PS5 or Steam game instead, surely?