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Anonymous Sun Jul 22 16:35:23 2018 No.4922805 [Reply] [Original]

who the fuck is the intended audience for this series? Most of the references are to stuff that no kid at the time would recognize, but the gameplay and visuals are all aimed towards kids, and on top of all that there's a ton of corny sex jokes that only a 13 year old would find funny.

Anonymous Sun Jul 22 16:40:27 2018 No.4922823
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who the fuck is the intended audience for this series? Most of the references are to stuff that no kid at the time would recognize, but the episodes and visuals are all aimed towards kids, and on top of all that there's a ton of corny sex jokes that only a 13 year old would find funny.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 16:41:56 2018 No.4922824 >>4922805 I was 12 when i picked this game up. My parents would make me and my siblings watch old tv shows, movies and such. I am the demographic for this game and i love all of them even the gb games!!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 19:18:47 2018 No.4923168 >>4922805 Back in those days, it was a lot more common for kids to watch old TV series because reruns were common and they didn't have a ton of other modern stuff competing for their attention.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 19:20:13 2018 No.4923171 >>4922823 Dot is cute!

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 19:34:03 2018 No.4923197 >>4922805 >Most of the references are to stuff that no kid at the time would recognize OP, were you born in 2005?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 20:28:16 2018 No.4923274 >>4922805 >Most of the references are to stuff that no kid at the time would recognize Kids of the mid-late 90's wouldn't recognize Looney Tunes, Star Wars, Bruce Lee, James Bond, Godzilla, Jurassic Park? When were you born, OP?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 22 20:28:49 2018 No.4923275 >>4922805 >i'm young, dumb and full of shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 00:57:45 2018 No.4923815 >t. jimmy 2008

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 00:59:45 2018 No.4923821 >>4922823 I loved Animaniacs as a kid, despite not understanding many of the references

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 01:04:45 2018 No.4923835 >>4923821 The weirdest thing about the show was the jokes about cartoon writers and their contracts. The fuck?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 01:27:33 2018 No.4923879 >>4922823 >Most of the references are to stuff that no kid at the time would recognize, Wrong dumbass, watch the cartoon instead of parroting Cracled memes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 01:28:50 2018 No.4923883 >>4922805 I still don't understand the "Don't drink tap water at Jerry Garcia's!"

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 01:54:03 2018 No.4923917 >>4923883 https://youtu.be/znn8dl-SDCA

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 01:57:33 2018 No.4923920

>>4923879
He's not wrong though, Animaniacs and Tiny Toons were both pretty bad about referencing pop culture stuff not intended for kids and doing tons of in jokes about the animation and film industry.

I guess Looney Tunes was kind of like that too to some extent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 03:43:29 2018 No.4924091 >>4922805 I accidentally came on this board but FUCK you OP, Gex was great remember OP is always a faggot

>>	Clarence Mon Jul 23 06:06:22 2018 No.4924278 The creators confirmed that Gex is an uncircumcised virgin on Twitter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:41:04 2018 No.4924319 >>4922823 >>4922805 kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 06:44:13 2018 No.4924325 >>4924278 You've just fucked my world view into pieces, wanker.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:04:12 2018 No.4924365

Like the shows being mentioned, it is "kid friendly" but is for general audiences. This isn't uncommon, many cartoons from around this time were like this as well, such as Dexters Lab, Powerpuff Girls, and even Spongebob. You just don't notice(or care) when you're a kid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:30:12 2018 No.4924406 >>4923835 >>4923920 The writers have admitted in interviews that they for the most part wrote shit that they found funny, and didn't really care if kids would find it funny, or even get the joke.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:32:50 2018 No.4924410 File: 59 KB, 500x378, 28BED911-0E08-4B99-8734-99B6F6BA56D1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4922805 edgy 90s preteens

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:33:00 2018 No.4924412 >>4922823 https://etd.auburn.edu/handle/10415/1436?show=full

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 07:50:05 2018 No.4924436 >>4923274 And Scoody Doo.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 11:49:48 2018 No.4924775
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>>4922805
Back in the day it was typical for families to own one t.v and one only(unless you were particulary well off), so when a kid got to have some vidya time, it wasn't uncommon that your parents would be pottering about looking on at what you're playing. One of my fondest memories of Gex was when my parents actually started laughing at some of his references. I didn't get it but I didn't care, it was a nice feeling when your mum & dad got some enjoyment out of something you enjoy too.

Those were the days. Life comes at you fast. :(

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 11:53:33 2018 No.4924781 >>4924775 You were poor if your household had only one tv in 1998.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 11:56:59 2018 No.4924786

>>4924781
to be honest it this would have been closer to 2001, so I suppose my household really was poor. Didn't feel that way to me though. Ah to be that young and naive again. Although I don't think we were that poor, I mean, I did have a Playstation.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 12:02:23 2018 No.4924797

>>4924786
Some people are just frugal and won't buy duplicates or replace things that aren't broken, and some have an odd way of thinking that views a tv as a super expensive permanent fixture. My mom was paying $1000+/year for cable to a standard definition tube until just a few years ago.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 12:08:26 2018 No.4924807
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>>4924797
My parents let me bring their bedroom tv into the basement when I got a playstation so I wouldn't hog the one in the living room.

13 inch sony with a terrible mono speaker god what a piece of shit that thing was for playing games.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 15:06:27 2018 No.4925212

>>4924781
>You were poor if your household had only one tv in 1998.

This. Hell, my family WAS poor living in a shitty apartment in the late 80s but even my dad got my sister and I our own used TV for our bedroom with our own cable box.

LOL, funny thing was, when you ordered pay channels, like the Playboy channel, it would go to ALL the boxes in the house, as it was analog signals and there was no way to determine which box got which channel, so we got to see plenty of softcore porn until my parents figured it out and just cancelled the channel and my dad just rented porn videos instead.

Anonymous Mon Jul 23 15:40:26 2018 No.4925296

>>4922823
The ‘Frozen Peas’ Pinky and the Brain segment still amazes me. Not only does the audience have to be familiar with Orson Welles in general, they have to specifically know about those commercial outtakes. The 90s had a really short golden age where writers/producers of children’s entertainment really gave a fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 15:41:49 2018 No.4925303 >>4922823 This show essentially introduced kid me to the concept of meta and Hollywood insider humor.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 15:48:25 2018 No.4925318 >>4923197 >>4923274 haha http://gex.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_quotes_in_Gex:_Enter_the_Gecko

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:31:41 2018 No.4925786 >>4924410 get out of my room ferg-face

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:37:49 2018 No.4925798 >>4924807 I think I grew up using the same tv for my genesis, worked fine for that though

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 18:51:07 2018 No.4925837 I hate to invoke this, but if you can comprehend Family Guy, you can comprehend Gex.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:04:21 2018 No.4925863 File: 210 KB, 1200x1600, 009.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4924278 >Gex is an uncircumcised virgin wtf is there to circumcise?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:07:34 2018 No.4925871 >>4925863 did you seriously google "lizard dick" or something

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 23 19:09:44 2018 No.4925876 >>4925871 Bing, actually

>>	Dillweed Mon Jul 23 20:23:09 2018 No.4926002 >>4925863 You're a diddler.

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