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7491892 No.7491892 [Reply] [Original]

Why are americans so nostalgic for anything famicom related when it wasn't even released there?

>> No.7491904

I sat and watched some poor dude try to sell his super famicom collection at a retro game convention and it didn't look like anyone bought a thing. There will always be that one guy trying to sell his super famicom to nobody.

>> No.7492096

>>7491892
Nobody is nostalgic for it.. they just like the aesthetic.

>> No.7492124

>>7491892
you would be too if you had to put up with those ugly american NES and SNES designs

>> No.7492204
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7492204

Cool color scheme, cute cartridges. A wild west before console makers adopted standardized designs and packaging for their games and required every publisher to play along.

>> No.7492259

Maybe there's some kind of nostalgia by proxy due to it being associated with the NES, but I think mainly its just people appreciating it for what it is

>> No.7492262

>>7491892
Import shops likely

>> No.7492710

>>7491892
it was

we called it a nintendo but it was basically the same exact thing

>> No.7492806

>>7491892
Nothing specific to famicom hardware as it wasn't really imported at any meaningful amounts like some later consoles were.

If anything there is a subset of poorer americans that hold more nostalgia for cheap taiwanese famiclones rather than the famicom proper

>> No.7492809

They're not. The Famicom just has a cool aesthetic.

>> No.7493042

>>7491892
Same reasons why American car guys import Nissan Skylines and Japanese car guys import the Subaru Brat.

>people like to habe something they weren't supposed to have
>people like to obtain something they don't think anyone else will get so in their world it becomes one of a kind
>it sparks conversation when other people notice it
>they feel like their experience with that system is incomplete without It
>just bored with what's out there and looking for a surprise

>> No.7493049

>>7491892
Gold and maroon is a good color combo. Ots not nostalgia, it's aesthetics. I also like the super famicom look over the snes.

>> No.7494286

>>7492204
looks like dandy bootlegs

>> No.7494390

>>7494286
Well no shit anon, the Dendy was a bootleg Famicom.

>> No.7495349

>>7493042
>they like how it looks and performs

>> No.7497707

>>7491892
It looks cool.

>> No.7497965

>>7491892
ameritards love consooming products, ameritards are so empty they need products to identify themselves with

>> No.7498924

Huh. Must mean it's not nostalgia.

>> No.7499971

>>7491892
merchants have trained mutts to consume without reserve

>> No.7499998

>>7491892
Most people buying it weren't born yet when the original NES came out, so they have no idea what either a NES or a Famicom looks like.