@Iodine said:
@Branthog said:
Cartoons from our childhood were shit. They were half hour long advertisements for toys (and were even slotted as such in program scheduling). Transformers and He-Man and GI JOE were fine when I was five years old and too stupid to realize how truly horrible the shows were and what their real point for existing was, but I'm a grown ass fucking man now and the last thing I give a fuck about is having the stupidest parts of my childhood pimped back to me as something I'm supposed to be nostalgic over. I'm certainly not going to pay to play crappy games based on crappy cartoons meant to entertain a toddler three decades ago.
It is beyond my comprehension that, for example, Transformers based games are selling for $60 in an age where the only people old enough to remember then are in their late thirties and forties. I mean, who are these people clamoring for this crap? I generally feel the same way about Star Wars, but at least that is still watchable and is (okay, arguably, I guess) not aimed at five year olds.
Tell me what Johnny Bravo was an ad for besides mace and I will listen to you
I've never heard of Johnny Bravo before, but Wikipedia says it was a cartoon from '97 to the early 00's and were for the Cartoon Network. That's not the same thing. Back when we were kids, cartoons were all Saturday-morning-long and all afternoon after school. And they were all oriented to marketing action figures and various other toys (also into the 90s and probably even today, frankly). The animated GI JOE series, for example, was basically paid advertising to sell Hasbro's action figures. The same goes for Autobots, Transformers, My Little Ponies, Strawberry Shortcake, He-Man, Thundercats and countless others. They were really awful (try watching them, today -- it's like trying to watch an episode of Knight Rider, but worse). Today, a lot of cartoons are made for the sake of pure entertainment and programming. In the late 70s and 80s, cartoons were marketing vehicles to sell really stupid toys to children. I'm sure there were some exceptions, but I can't think of many. This wasn't a time of "hey, let's make a neat toy based on this cartoon". It was the time of "hey, let's make a new line of toys and market them with these shitty cartoons that five year old kids are too dumb to question".
Which, I guess, is fine. But why grown-adults would want to play video games based on shitty cartoons like that from thirty years ago is beyond me. I mean, yeah, I liked Transformers in the early 80s. He-Man, too. But I was a little kid and didn't know any better. I thought checkers was fun, when I was five, too.
Oh yeah all that stuff is a giant ad for toys, I agree, I forgot we are not all the same age.
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