>show makes video games references/parodies
>It's always old nintendo games
Why?

>>712995921 (OP)
sorry that they dont reference the obscure scrimblo bimblo game from 1996 that was only released in south korea
nintendo has the widest appeal retard

They were the most popular video games of the time

>>712995921 (OP)
manchildren are the target audience, and the people behind these crappy shows

>>712995921 (OP)
Nintendo is the most popular video game company.

>>712995921 (OP)

>even shows from other networks cannibalize SpongeBob seasons 1-3

>>712995921 (OP)
Because it's immediately recognisable as a game

>>712995921 (OP)
Because it's the most iconic images in video games.

>>712995921 (OP)
Much like the internet gaming fractured, they could parody Half Life and only 10% of the audience will recognize it, or they could parody the first Mario and most will unddrstand is a videogame.

>>712996467
SpongeBob didn't invent having imagination.

I unironically love TTG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgs18qh1Yg

It's for the same reason that all artists creating these shows are liberal. The system filters out those with inspirations or beliefs considered eccentric.
Creating shows is something for the elite. You won't be part of the right groups, have the right contacts, study in the right places, produce the right things, if you're an eccentric whose inspirations are completely foreign to normalfags with above-average education. If your inspirations are obscure, your production will most likely be too, and you'll end up becoming an underground artist. You may even end up penetrating the elite because they also like to have a weirdo among them from time to time, if he is capable of making money, but that's it.

>>712996865
What

>>712995921 (OP)
I hate this show with a passion and the original was one of my favorites.
It's like they dug up its corpse just to parade it around and dress it like a tyranny.

>>712996938
Congratulations, you said "normalfags know it" in way too many words. Kill thineself

>>712999793
>someone offers an explanation slightly more in depth than what one sentence can portray
>KILL YOURSELF!!!
why are you like this?

Let's hit the showers!

>>712999773
the "original" show did the same to the Teen Titans comics so it's fine.

>>712996135
this and Nintendo is the family friendly company.
the only exception I can think of is gumball
https://youtu.be/fyki5QDJW_8

>>713000010
You're not that smart buddy

>>712999793
It turns out that consumers don't need to know, recognizing the reference is not necessary, it's like those shitty Tarantino movies that everyone likes but no one recognizes a reference to some obscure B movie like, I don't know, Black Mama White Mama or some piece of shit that's almost impossible to watch.
These guys are using Super Mario Bros or some Nintendo game as a reference, sometimes literally putting fucking Mario right there (I think it was Futurama where there's a parody about video games and Mario literally appears there), because that's their culture. Modern artists are all normalfags perfectly aligned with corporate and mainstream values.

>>713002032
Reddit is to the left sir

>>713000010
your explanation amounted to it being a conspiracy that normies are using mario as a recognizable videogame reference instead of Baroque for the sega saturn

>>712995921 (OP)
I used to find it weird that cartoons in the 2000s would still show vidya as these pixellated pieces of shit even though real games looked more realistic than ever. And then devs actually started to crank out pixelshit (and voxelshit) in great abundance. So now Minecraft is one of the most commonly referenced vidya aesthetics in media.

>>712995921 (OP)
but that episode had both spyhunter and pac man if I'm remembering correctly

>>713002193
Ah, I see, you're the retarded Nintendo fanboy who patrols all the threads to fight any criticism of Nintendo.
I basically wrote:
>Nintendo is used because the artists are normalfags whose knowledge of video games is mainstream and superficial
and you took it personally because Nintendo is your religion.

>>712996135
You mean the target audience are the creators, and then manchildren?
>>712996467
It really does look like that huh
>>712996938
>only liberals are in touch with the above average common man
Last I checked, having genuine appeal isn't a requirement to make shows and TTG isn't for those with any education given its fart sniffing jokes and existence on a cartoon channel
>>713002032
>Futurama
Now I know you don't understand what "mainstream" culture is

>>713003043
>goes into a schizo rant
Lovely

It's getting harder to ignore how mentally ill many of you are

>>713004634
Don't quote me anymore, I'm prejudiced against autists like you.

>>713003693
>only liberals are in touch with the above average common man
What I said (and what is easily observable, by the way) is that the higher you climb in the hierarchy of these things, the more dominantly liberal the place becomes. The conclusion is obvious: there is a bias in favor of elite values when it comes to, guess what... naturally elitist jobs (who would have thought!).
This is just an analogy, though. It's to show that you only get to the top if you align yourself with the dominant culture. The eccentric people who will see the reference to video games as a chance to do something weird full of references to obscure games they like because they have deep knowledge of the medium are not working in big studios. Those who work in big studios are a homogeneous group totally aligned with corporate values, and when they think of video games, they immediately imagine "Nintendo", the king of soulless corporate games, the god of normalfags.

>>712995921 (OP)
That's when video games peaked

>>713005512
>the higher you climb in the hierarchy of these things, the more dominantly liberal the place becomes.
But you said
>You won't be... if your inspirations are completely foreign to normalfags with above-average education.
Liberals aren't normalfags with above-average education. Liberals are their own subculture. As are elites.
>eccentrics who like video games aren't a part of the medium
Yet eccentrics who like obscure anime are 99% of people, especially the literal elites, haven't heard of.
Normalfags know video games as "Oh Minecraft/Fortnite? My kid likes that"

>>713006245
>Steven Universe
I don't get it

>>713006656
>queer cartoon made by and for a very specific subset of 30 year old women
>low effort animation and art style was too hard to keep consistent in the same episode
>anime "references" and "homages" (frame by frame plagiarism)
>gimmick of the show is treated like sex: remember no means no!
Is it liberal? Yes.
Is it elitist? No.
Is it corporate? No!
Is it normalfag? Fuck no!
Is it educated? Absolutely not!

I agree that you need to be in a clique and a part of their culture to make something but fuck no is referencing ye olde Nintendos a liberal or educated or even boomer value.

>>712995921 (OP)
Because the Gen Xers behind those shows still think that videogames are all bing bing wahoo pixel platformers.

>>712995921 (OP)
nintendo won at video games. not even a tendiesnoy, this is just facts.

>>712995921 (OP)
The children the show's intended for know mario since the series is still going and they keep re-releasing even the old games. Mario's also got distinct characters you can parody. Ditto for pacman which had a cartoon recent enough there was a FNF mod for it.

Contra's about the same age, but there haven't been any recent re-releases and your characters are functionally identical shirtless men with guns. The only unique gimmick you could parody off the top of my head is how fucking weird it is when the aliens show up after you've spent all game fighting human soldiers and machines.

>>712995921 (OP)
Same reason boomers referenced their childhood in 90s cartoons.

>>713011525
Based