nikka, Playboys and porn are marketed to adults but it's still a "rite of passage" in the life of every adolescent/teenage boy, so this whole "marketing" point is unrelated.
Cartoons for one, in response to the thing you bolded. Many of you are highlighting shows that actually were meant for kids as a mark of you growing up in the 90s (which is crazy because these shows were definitely NOT marketed to you, which shows how nullified your point of "marketing" is)
I had a Super Nintendo, brand new. I had a 64, brand new, I had a Game Boy, bought brand new. I'm the oldest child. You have to remember that the internet was not in the lives of many people back then. nikkas didn't know how to even find or begin to search for release dates, so people would buy things and then something new would come out some months later and the shyt would sit on the market for 6 years. So even though you bought the Game Boy when it came out or in 93, that same product was still "marketed" to me years later anyway. The way you all bring marketing up as a point is silly as marketing doesn't seek to target birth years, but age groups.
Y'all's point is really moot.
I mean Im not one of these old ass nikkas.... I was born in 87' so I pretty much was young enough to see all the good cartoons and old enough to fukk with the systems... 86'-89' are the prime years imo...
and you're right, You still could play with all those old systems when you got old enough, but just know you were on that outdated technology while everyone else had moved on

Street Fighter sessions with like 10 nikkas in a round robin tournament didn't really exist for you because according to you, by the time you played them, it was years later and new systems had already popped up... Which is what folks mean by maybe you didn't get the FULL experience...
Either way its all good... just be happy we're aren't 30 years old +
