Danny Aiello was the first person I ever heard say the word "Nintendo" on TV, outside of a commercial or newscast. It was jarring at the time. An adult, a grown adult adult, talking about "playing Nintendo" in a heist movie. I suppose the point of the reference was to hammer home how much the world had changed while Bruce Willis's burglar was inside. It's jarring again how well it works, in retrospect. Eddie went in at the start of the 80s and came out a decade later and the in the middle of his lost decade, a hundred-year-old playing card company revitalized and revolutionized the home video game market by sneaking their console onto post-crash retail shelves as a toy robot "entertainment system". Nothing has been the same since.
Quick Hits & Stray Thoughts (12/13/2019)
Quick Hits & Stray Thoughts (12/13/2019)
Quick Hits & Stray Thoughts (12/13/2019)
Danny Aiello was the first person I ever heard say the word "Nintendo" on TV, outside of a commercial or newscast. It was jarring at the time. An adult, a grown adult adult, talking about "playing Nintendo" in a heist movie. I suppose the point of the reference was to hammer home how much the world had changed while Bruce Willis's burglar was inside. It's jarring again how well it works, in retrospect. Eddie went in at the start of the 80s and came out a decade later and the in the middle of his lost decade, a hundred-year-old playing card company revitalized and revolutionized the home video game market by sneaking their console onto post-crash retail shelves as a toy robot "entertainment system". Nothing has been the same since.