/vr/ - Retro Games

One thing I've noticed with all of these 'people' trying to rewrite the history surrounding the mania of FF7 is that they nearly 90% of the time, are usually Americans, Nintendo fans, or both.

FF6 was a pretty big deal in America, and yes, it was the original hotbed for Final Fantasy. And while the series and VI were never released in Europe, their styles were already pretty apparent in most media here; that Medieval Fantasy thing was already in the culture and it wasn't that groundbreaking either if you tried pushing for it. But, when 7 was released over here, it was considered very unique. To blend high-fantasy with a cyber-diesel setting was something Europeans found incredibly interesting, and especially amongst the British Isles. 6 was not even known here, until they got re-released on the PlaySation years later.

Also, Tomb Raider was also a huge fucking deal over here in Europe as well, especially in the Atlantic areas. Not a single fucking soul heard of Samus and if they did, it was only through the basement dwellers that did nothing but play Nintendo games the whole time. Lara Croft was considered 'The' female icon of games too, which drew them into the hobby. Its funny there here too, that Americans and Nintendo fans show up again to try and rewrite this bit of history, when Samus wasn't even intended to be girl until the last second. Lara, on the other hand, was a girl the moment the magazines were released.

I get pretty tired about all of this, and its infuriating too, because these exact same kinds of people who are trying to rewrite this kind of history are now in charge of the ""Nostalgia Merch"" for games across most of the EU, and there's a definite bias towards Nintendo and games that were popular over in the US.

Pretty ironic that these exact same kind of trend-setters doing this are deliberately obtuse to the trends of what made these things popular in the first place, not to mention getting their information completely wrong in the process.