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Thinking about how Nintendo YouTubers have dominated gaming discourse online for so long that they've shaped what we consider as popular or iconic about the past. Banjo-Kazooie sold around 3 million units. You know who else sold that much? Croc: Legend of the Gobbospic.twitter.com/1eHcAsZ5Vf
A literal Scrimblo Bimblo. And this isn't a jab at Banjo or a statement on each game's quality. I haven't played either. But it's a bit odd that I've literally never heard about this random PSX title but keep seeing the same old Nintendo N64 titles touted as generation-defining
Essentially, we've allowed the childhoods of like 10 YouTubers to re-write history, and everyone else plays along with it because they're young and don't want to sound stupid. And since it's been happening for so long, it gets repeated by people who weren't even alive back then.
When I was a kid, I watched a ton of AVGN (who I still love) and with it learned of Castlevania. The way he talked about it, it seemed like a franchise on par with Mario and Zelda that kids talked about on the playground. The number of entries also seemed to back that up.
No Castlevania title even pops up in the list of top 75 best-selling NES games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games … The first game didn't break 1 million until the GBA re-release. The best-selling Castlevania game is the Kojima reboot for the PS3/360 and it sold 1.77 Million.
Now, am I saying Castlevania isn't a classic? Not really, the games are great and even have a genre named after them (post SotN). But it's not popular, it never was, and a ton of its modern popularity is owed to this cultural mythos that formed around it.
Again, IT'S NOT ABOUT QUALITY. Many of the games I love sold like shit and are unpopular. But you can't claim something has a huge reach and is iconic to millions when it doesn't sell. The N64 itself sold poorly outside of the US and UK, and I can't stop hearing about it.
There's also another possibility. Nintendo fans always get super hype about games coming to their consoles that they won't buy or play - maybe that's an old phenomenon lol
"Banjo is remembered because it is better" if you bothered to read the thread, you'd understand that doesn't matter because most of the people revering Banjo right now haven't played the games. The first game is 23 years old.
Most Tekken games sold like hotcakes too
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