Why were there so many anti-drug games in the past?

[Anonymous No.6258712]

[Anonymous No.6258716]

>>6258712
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7l8dx-h8M

[Anonymous No.6258787]

Because Ronnie Raygun, you underage motherfucker.

[Anonymous No.6258810]

>>6258712
It was a different, better time.

[Anonymous No.6258895]

>>6258787
It was Nancy's fault

[Anonymous No.6258906]

>>6258787
What does making secret deals with Iran have to do with NES games?

[Anonymous No.6258917]

[Anonymous No.6259000]

>>6258712
Because, for all their overreaction, people(adults) actually gave a fuck if we(the youth) ruined our lives back then.

[Anonymous No.6259002]

>>6259000
this desu

[Anonymous No.6259004]

>>6259002
It's almost like they cared if you were a loser.

[Anonymous No.6259005]

>>6259000
>>6259002
>>6259004
People should be allowed to fail. If they do then they deserve whatever happens to them.

[Anonymous No.6259014]

>>6259005
I don't disagree with this, but that's like not schooling someone and then blaming them for being stupid. Giving people the incentive, or just operant conditioning, to resist their baser instincts is uplifting to society.
We don't even let them fail. We give them a bunch of tax money in handout form, treat their medical emergencies for free, and even blame their nature on their environment.
I'm not saying that's a good or a bad thing, it just is what it is. We don't let them truly fail. We subsidize their failure just before the point of totality.

[Anonymous No.6259016]

>>6259014
That's because society is too cowardly to just let the weak die.

[Anonymous No.6259020]

>>6259016
I don't disagree with you. It is what it is. I think it's possible to bring our zeitgeist back around to "teach people to be better than themselves" but not possible to directly bridge our current zeitgeist(tabula rasa and also capitalism is evil so everyone is forced to do bad things and it's oppressive to suggest they should do good things) directly to a fundamentally stoic one.

[Anonymous No.6259052]

>>6258810
no it wasn't
it's the basically the same as this time, and once we are far away enough that people can only listen to the propaganda they'll think this decade was great too because people have no standards

[Anonymous No.6259060]

>>6258712
Because drugs are bad M.kay.

[Anonymous No.6259063]

>>6259052
that's not true, your perspective is just limited. things change, and they often change in objectively positive or negative ways. often society views the time they grew up in as flawed(for extreme and obvious examples think kulaks or jews circa their respective genocides) and make changes for the better.

this conversation is not retro

[Anonymous No.6259084]

>>6259063
holodomor was before the 2000 /vr/ cutoff tho

[Anonymous No.6259106]

Retard Reaganite boomers had their hands in everything.

[Anonymous No.6259107]

>>6259063
>jew genocide

yeah right, the holocaust is literally fake news

[Anonymous No.6259454]

>>6259016
>The weak die, might makes right
Very rarely does someone take this sentiment with them as they fall. It always exists as some vague justification for current class position.

[Anonymous No.6261185]

>>6258712
Manifesting a point of resistance to create a generation of druggies who drug as a means of rebellion.

[Anonymous No.6261187]

>>6261185
that's deep, dude

[Anonymous No.6261210]

>>6261187
Take a look around. Doesn't take a genius to see that this is what happened.

[Anonymous No.6261212]

>>6261210
People used drugs as rebellion long before the 80s tho

[Anonymous No.6261474]

It was because of the crack cocaine epidemic of the late 80s and early 90s. A lot of pressure was put on the government to do something to steer kids away from that, hence the Just Say No program and these shitty games made by no-name companies trying to cash in on that. We all know that one poor kid who's mom bought him one of these because it was wholesome and educational.

[Anonymous No.6261514]

>>6261474
This is the only correct answer. These games were cash grabs and allowed them to market to conservative parents who otherwise were skeptical at best about videogames.

[Anonymous No.6261616]

>>6261474
This, it also created movies like Robocop and Terminator, movies set in dirty, rundown cities hostile to everyone. Games were also more gritty and urban, playing you as the hero cleaning the streets up.

America eventually recovered, well until the opioid epidemic which is so many times worse than the crack epidemic that billions have been put aside to fight it.

[Anonymous No.6261657]

>>6259060
I came here to post this

[Anonymous No.6261660]

>>6258712
>1.5%
>wah too many

[Anonymous No.6261661]

We thought explicit "don't do drugs" messages to children would keep them from doing drugs as adults. It didn't work.

[Anonymous No.6261674]

>>6259052
Pre existence of mainstream internet, pre cell phones, pre strong PC/SJW/social media presence, pre internet porn and widespread pro sexual degeneracy/pro slut propaganda, pre "mental health"/psych pill popping craze. You're wrong; 80s and early 90s western society was very different

[Anonymous No.6261683]

>>6258906
The Regan-era drug war basically provided a pretense for American operatives to do their dirty gangster shit on foreign soil worldwide, thanks to terms forced into unrelated shit like foreign trade agreements. This was a period in which CIA/USAID/etc spooks were getting pretty arrogant with the free reign they had in South America which was both a hassle for the scandal potential and the need to have bespoke covers all over the place with the Cold War excuse about to expire any day, while "drugs" was carte blanche to be everywhere they already were and more.

Not to gloss over the domestic utility (where it was kinda like the PATRIOT Act as a standing excuse to violate civil rights at will... funny how there always seems to be one of those), but you're probably pretty familiar with that, since that was the point since Nixon (which his staff have literally admitted).

Anyway, if you think about the Cold War propaganda being phased out, that's a pretty significant level of mind-share.
And "corruption of the youth" isn't exactly the loaded gun that aiming NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE at the public's head was, so they went with quality over quality.
Hence vidya and all kinds of other unrelated vectors.

[Anonymous No.6262135]

>>6258712
Because police need to be able to felonize you for "possession" of something they can easily hide under their uniform and slip out when their hands are off camera.

[Anonymous No.6262141]

>>6258712
That was the age when games were made by game developers, not committee groups rooting out micro aggressions and shitting out diversity projects.

[Anonymous No.6262165]

go ask my fucking death father how great drugs are and why they should be legalized

[Anonymous No.6262169]

>>6262165
Can't, he's death

[Anonymous No.6262193]

>>6259060
Poosieees!

Whoooaaaahhh! Hoooleee sheeeiiit! [dances to the PacMan jingle]

[Anonymous No.6262198]

>>6258712
Presumably the same reason why US TV series did Very Special Episodes in the past.

[Anonymous No.6262201]

>>6262193
Hey pacman what's up

[Anonymous No.6262209]

>>6259454
It's called the original position fallacy. Supporting something because you think you'll be part of the group that benefits from it. Like how some people would support the reinstatement of slavery because they think they'll be the ones owning slaves.

[Anonymous No.6262232]

>>6258712
Because drugs are bad

[Anonymous No.6262236]

>>6258712
I don't know right most black people didn't own a gaming console back in the day

[Anonymous No.6262307]

>>6262232
*smokes a cigarette*
*drinks a six-pack of beer*
*eats two dozen deep-fried cheeseburgers*

[Anonymous No.6262503]

>>6262236
They went the arcades for the most part. Why do you think black people love fighting games?

[Anonymous No.6262506]

>>6262307
s e e t h i n g

[Anonymous No.6262530]

>>6262307
nicotine and alcohol are considered drugs mate
and burgerland tried to ban the second one once before

[Anonymous No.6262557]

>>6262503
I thought they only play sports games

[Anonymous No.6263020]

>>6259014
School doesn't work though.

[Anonymous No.6263198]

>>6262307
consumption of cheeseburgers and cigarettes does't have a positive correlation to murder and other violent crime

[Anonymous No.6263264]

>>6259454
Not him and I very, very rarely that that position. But ‘might makes right’ doesn’t really apply to this situation, barring human trafficking victims (who are genuinely victims) there’s no mighty person forcing anyone to ruin their lives with drugs.

I’ve experimented with them and smoke pot on the regular, and it’s sad when someone lets themselves go too far. I’m not without sympathy and not against helping them with charity. But charity has no moral obligation, it’s just extra. Someone ruins their life with drugs, nobody is accountable for that but them.

videogames

[Anonymous No.6263291]

>>6262165
Only weed should be legal

[Anonymous No.6263335]

>>6263291
I agree

[Anonymous No.6263336]

>>6258712
Unironically the crack epidemic

[Anonymous No.6263354]

I thought the OP pic was meant as a parody of the scenes in Golgo 13 NES where Togo is taking to someone, but then I reverse image searched it.

[Anonymous No.6263369]

>>6259107
Yes it is, take it to >>>/pol/
>>6261616
Crack was nigger population control, thank the CIA.
>>6261661
It didn't stop me.
>>6262209
That would be a good thing.
>>6262236
If they did they sold it for crack.
>>6262503
And climbing trees, it's in their DNA.

[Anonymous No.6263405]

[Anonymous No.6263569]

>>6258906
>>6261683
total /vr/ conversation, nice job bros

[ !Codeine.pA No.6263645]

People who played games at the time were 100% nerds. Today it's closer to 99%, but these types of strange messages are no longer considered acceptable by most gamers.

The same reason top selling franchises very rarely include Sonic-style mascots. Most of us have grown up. The rest regularly post on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.6263654]

>>6263569
I mean yeah, it kinda is though.
We didn't ask for William S. Sessions to wave his cock in our face every time we wanted to become a turtle skilled in ninjitsu.
But he did, so it's kind of a bitch move to pretend we don't know the context, like it or not.

[Anonymous No.6264146]

>>6262165
drugs are illegal only because they open your mind to the idea that everything authority has told you is a lie.