Child Holding Famicom Controller The Wrong Way Causes Outrage Online In Japan

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Random: Child Holding Famicom Controller The Wrong Way Causes Outrage Online In Japan

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If you ever want to cause mass outrage in Japan, apparently all you need to do is hold a Famicom controller upside down, get someone to take a photo of it and then wait until it goes viral on the internet.
This is what happened earlier this week when a photo of a child holding a Famicom controller the wrong way supposedly "went viral" on Japanese social media. The photo itself was actually taken for a supplementary reading book designed for elementary school children in Japan, which only added fuel to the fire. Even people who don't play video games within the country were reportedly calling it out.
The photo received so much criticism online, the Board of Education in Iwate Prefecture was eventually forced to respond by explaining how exactly the photo was taken. It said the child in the photo was simply asked to hold the controller, in order to illustrate how children played back in 1991.
As the school children of today are not familiar with one of the most popular video game systems of all-time, the controller was held the incorrect way. The board said more preparation, as well as research, should have been done to prevent such a "serious" mistake from happening.

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

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There is nothing I could add to this to make this funnier.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Imagine if that was an N64 controller

 

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

Imagine if that was an N64 controller

He'd probably end up stabbing someone.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

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There is nothing I could add to this to make this funnier.

I'm with you on this. It's just too stupid and funny that any attempt to add humor to it would detract from the humor already there in the first place.

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

it's also not even plugged in.

 

[Recoil]

Now you know how I feel when I see a DJ in a movie who's clearly not making whatever it is I'm hearing.

 

[BlueSpark]

I'm guessing the online "outrage" was like 10 retards who were genuinely angry and a couple thousand people posting memes.
Modern "journalism" is the easiest thing in the world, just find few people being angry online and claim "people" are "outraged" at whatever.

 

[DragoonSierra]

it's also not even plugged in.

Oh you sweet summer child. Let me enlighten you which my big brained video game knowledge:

Spoiler

Famicom controllers are hardwired to the system

 

[MemeGray]

Maybe the kid was just left handed?

 

[JM 590]

Nintendo Power Magazine, issue 20:

(that kid looked like the fucking devil to me when I was little)

 

[BoingBoingBoi]

Oh you sweet summer child. Let me enlighten you which my big brained video game knowledge:

Spoiler

Famicom controllers are hardwired to the system

i mean the console isnt plugged into anything---no power cable or tv cable.

 

[MediocreMilt]

Imagine if that was an N64 controller

If the Japanese don't like how I hold an N64 controller they can design a controller for those of us with only two hands.

 

[heathercho]

なんでやねん?

 

[Takodachi]

The longer you look at the picture the worse it gets.

 

[KotatsuApe]

Wait for the overseas weeaboo detachment to find out about this

 

[Clop]

I don't understand why everyone here isn't freaking the fuck out, this is a crisis. Don't you see? The next generation is going to be even worse at video games and our video games will suffer because of it! They're going to dumb down our precious video games even more!

I bet Nintendo is making an upside-down motion controller with three prongs RIGHT NOW.

 

[J A N D E K]

Now you know how I feel when I see a DJ in a movie who's clearly not making whatever it is I'm hearing.

Amen, brother

 

[Recoil]

Amen, brother

We would also accept: "Impeach the President" or "It Takes Two"

 

[oldTireWater]

I once met a woman who used the mouse upside down, buttons and cord closest to her palm. It's like a PM Magazine human interest story. Life finds a way I suppose.