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

Remember when movies and TV shows would hammer buttons to a controller or system that didn't even have a game in it?

Remember when we made fun of the nerds who got upset about it?

I miss those days.
 
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That Darn Mimic said:
Remember when movies and TV shows would hammer buttons to a controller or system that didn't even have a game in it?

Remember when we made fun of the nerds who got upset about it?

I miss those days.
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My brother used to hold his NES controller upside down when we were kids. The kid is probably a leftie.
 
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Megaroad said:
Saw some kids unable to get a NES working a few years ago because they didn't know you're supposed to push the cartridge down.

Dark times we in.
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Be fair. The NES's whole desing gimmick outside of japan was to emulate VCRs (after the american game crash) which have been dead for nearly 2 decades and you'd think the contacts would line up when you push it in like any other game system.
 
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It's kinda weird but the Japanese Famicom controllers have English letters and writing on them. Might have played a small part in this as if they used Kanji instead of English the kid would have noticed the fucking thing was upside down pretty fast.

However.... what sort of fucking dingus things the cord would come out of the bottom of the controller? They're always on the top, always have been and always will be. I mean, has that kid never seen anything but a wireless controller? Has he never seen a controller with a cord attaching it to the fucking console?
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
However.... what sort of fucking dingus things the cord would come out of the bottom of the controller? They're always on the top, always have been and always will be. I mean, has that kid never seen anything but a wireless controller? Has he never seen a controller with a cord attaching it to the fucking console?
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  1. The charging port on phones is typically on the bottom.
  2. Using your non-dominant hand for movement is more exceptional than a cord on the bottom. Can't blame a child for thinking the controller was designed for normies, not autistic button-mashers.
 
Safir said:
  1. The charging port on phones is typically on the bottom.
  2. Using your non-dominant hand for movement is more exceptional than a cord on the bottom. Can't blame a child for thinking the controller was designed for normies, not autistic button-mashers.
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So the kid is just an idiot who's never seen anything but nigger technology and can't figure out left from right? The future is fucked.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
It's kinda weird but the Japanese Famicom controllers have English letters and writing on them
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Nah that's standard for Japanese games, especially old ones. The Latin alphabet only has 26 characters while the smallest Japanese alphabet has 48 characters and we only have 40kb of ROM space, English it is.
 
vertexwindi said:
Nah that's standard for Japanese games, especially old ones. The Latin alphabet only has 26 characters while the smallest Japanese alphabet has 48 characters and we only have 40kb of ROM space, English it is.
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That explains why the Japanese code their games in English, not why they print English characters on products meant for Japanese people who's native language isn't English. I mean, they can't spell "Start" and "Select" in Kanji on the thing? Just seems weird to me, like a US gaming company deciding to use Russian lettering on their controllers. It's just kinda weird.

Then again, Japan is fucking weird, so I guess it just makes a sort of sense.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
That explains why the Japanese code their games in English, not why they print English characters on products meant for Japanese people who's native language isn't English. I mean, they can't spell "Start" and "Select" in Kanji on the thing? Just seems weird to me, like a US gaming company deciding to use Russian lettering on their controllers. It's just kinda weird.

Then again, Japan is fucking weird, so I guess it just makes a sort of sense.
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Eh that's just a culture thing. They like cool English words like we like mysterious and wise kanji tattoos.
 
vertexwindi said:
Eh that's just a culture thing. They like cool English words like we like mysterious and wise kanji tattoos.
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I like to tell people their tattoos mean something completely different from what they intended. Wouldn't be surprised if I were actually right.
 
ExceptionallyExceptional said:
That explains why the Japanese code their games in English, not why they print English characters on products meant for Japanese people who's native language isn't English. I mean, they can't spell "Start" and "Select" in Kanji on the thing? Just seems weird to me, like a US gaming company deciding to use Russian lettering on their controllers. It's just kinda weird.

Then again, Japan is fucking weird, so I guess it just makes a sort of sense.
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Then again, Japan is fucking weird
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English is so tightly integrated into Japanese today that they sort of have their own version of English they use. Advertisements use "Let's (activity)" all the time, and that's just perfectly normal from a Japanese perspective. https://legendsoflocalization.com/japans-mysterious-love-of-the-word-lets/

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This horrible video stands out as something specifically made just for Japanese audiences. It comes off awkward as shit but follows the flow of how Japanese advertising tends to work, with "Let's enjoy the rest of the performance with the app!" at the end to really tie it all together. It's all in English, but notice how he keeps it fairly simple with no Western-friendly finesse. Like, he says "songs", but not "music" or "tunes". Obviously the subtitles are there because you're not supposed to understand all of it, but most Japanese adults could get the jist of what he's saying without subs. (or maybe not because he's still speaking in an American accent)

"I knew our talented Domino's Pizza crew could work together to create great Vocaloid... songs."
 
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BoingBoingBoi said:
it's also not even plugged in.
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You see, what these people don't know that this is the right way to hold a controller.

If you're that little brother or sister that wants to play video games with your older sibling.
 
Well i could relate, i loaned my old Game Boy Advance to my godson last year and he called me to bitch about how it doesn't come with a touch screen, a kid holding wrong a Famicom/NES controller is not rare
 
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Cubanodun said:
Well i could relate, i loaned my old Game Boy Advance to my godson last year and he called me to bitch about how it doesn't come with a touch screen, a kid holding wrong a Famicom/NES controller is not rare
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Now he knows what we old fucks went through. Hope it gives him a greater appreciation for the technology he's been growing up with because we had to make do with far more primitive technologies. Shit, remember the old grey GameBoy classic? Those things didn't even have fucking color and had to rely entirely upon sound quality that couldn't surpass a MIDI file!
Ahhhhh, them good old days. Things were so much simpler back then. I feel as old as my avatar looks.
 
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ExceptionallyExceptional said:
It's kinda weird but the Japanese Famicom controllers have English letters and writing on them. Might have played a small part in this as if they used Kanji instead of English the kid would have noticed the fucking thing was upside down pretty fast.

However.... what sort of fucking dingus things the cord would come out of the bottom of the controller? They're always on the top, always have been and always will be. I mean, has that kid never seen anything but a wireless controller? Has he never seen a controller with a cord attaching it to the fucking console?
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It was not entirely rare for failed consoles to do that. Heck, even the original version SMS had the cord come out of the side instead of the bottom.
 
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