Thread 11943834

How did Miyamoto predict the early 1990s dinosaur craze? Is there no limit to his genius?

He didn't predict it. He started it.

>>11943834 (OP)
Dino Riders was a somewhat popular cartoon and had action figures in the 80s. Maybe it was from that or something

He just simply wanted Mario to ride a horse. No really, that was it. They couldn't make it happen in the NES era but they finally could by SNES, and since the SNES game was taking place in "Dinosaur Land" the "horse" was replaced with a dragon a dinosaur.

i never read yoshi as a dinosaur... to me he was sth like a common garden lizard

Dinosaur discourse was already in the air. Remember, the hypothesis that dinosaurs went extinct due to an asteroid collision was proposed only in 1980.

>>11943892
Pretty sure it started with Jurassic Park.

>>11943834 (OP)
Dinosaurs and astronauts and fast cars were the cornerstones of young boys in the 80s

>>11943938
The Land Before Time predates that.

>>11943938
JP was just the peak of the dino craze, it had been going on much earlier than that.

>>11943834 (OP)
Little spoiler for you zoomie.
Dinosaurs were always popular
The craze started in the late 1800s.

>>11943947
Yup, and Miyamoto stole the look of Yoshi from Bluth's film.
What a hack.

The Jurassic Park book and SMW came out the same day basically (november 20 for JP, and november 21 for SMW, but given Japan's timezone, it was still november 20 in the west).
Crazy coincidence.

>>11943892
This, nintendo didn't necessarily invent dinosaurs(though there's no proof they didnt) but they did invent people liking dinosaurs AND people thinking dinosaurs are cool.

>>11944018
Dinosaurs are a trick by the Devil to make people think evolution is real. If you are correct, Nintendo is a tool of Satan and must be stopped.

>>11943834 (OP)
Kids liked dinosaurs in the 80s tendie

>>11943834 (OP)
What kid didnt like dinosaurs?

>>11944023
Well yeah that's been obvious since the get go, they're company was based around gambling and now is based around luring in children with idol worship, they absolutely are capturing souls for the beast. In fact nintendo invented using mass media to rob men of their souls.

>>11943916
So they decided to go with a dinosaur because they had already decided to go with dinosaurs, got it

>>11944031
Makes sense, they were in bed with the Black Dragon Society.

>>11944048
Rumors are that when Konami went over to Sony with Symphony of the Night after Nintendo being the main way to play Castlevania for years they wrote the cutscene with Richter and Dracula to reflect their relationship with Nintendo

>>11944057
What a horrible company to have an experience with.

>>11944081
Yeah you get it

Stop liking Nintendo

>>11943938
You are very wrong.

>>11943912
Dino Riders is awesome yeah, but it's not like kids didn't love dinosaurs for a long time before the 90s in general. Dinosaurs were always considered cool by boys until they got feathers.

>>11944560
Soientists ruined dinosaurs forever with that feathers bullshit. T-Rex that stood up and stomped around like this was much cooler too.

FUCK dinosaurs

>>11943920
Anon. Any reptile is essentially a dinosaur.

>>11944560
Dino love died when Pokemon got popular.

>>11944621
>Any reptile is essentially a dinosaur
Not at all, dinosaurs are a specific branch of reptile that evolved things like a completely different hip and leg structure, warm blood (in at least some cases) and hollow bones

>>11944632
Pokemon released in the West soon after Jurassic Park's sequel did (which turned out to be shit and made dinosaurs uncool)

>>11943834 (OP)
Wasn't Japan deep into that stuff before the dinomania?

>no companion GBA game
What the FUCK was SEGA thinking?

>>11944640
Pokemon made boys like cutesy effeminate monsters instead of rough looking dinosaurs. It's all about infantilization to create a more captive consumer class.

>>11944656
You're describing Generation 2 Pokemon, bits of Gen 3, and beyond it.
Generation 1 Pokemon are mostly testosterone as fuck designs from mutant lizards to bioengineered clones. Meanwhile Gen 2 had a few Gen 1 remnants among the baby shit they introduced and replaced cool stuff for stupid shit like Shudo's pool toy dragon over the lead of the Legendary Beast trio. Gen 3 tried to bring it back but it was too fuckin late and they were still adding shit that pandered to "that's my bf/gf" type of designs like Blaziken instead of literal awesome chadsaurs like the Aggron line.
By the time the anime made the franchise successful and worked on the next game, they fagged it up, softens and rounded everything, made it animator friendly, and pandered to japanese girls and womens buying toys because *gasp* the merchandise fucking sells.

>>11944693
>testosterone as fuck designs
Whatever helps you cope, kiddo.

>>11944693
>>11944709
Even Pokemon like Pikachu were cool and not just cute. Original fat Pikachu was cooler. Hell, if Gorochu was made we also might've gotten a tough looking monster as a final evolution (art is just a fan interpretation based on what we have).

There's also Pokemon like Jigglypuff, so calling it all testosterone as fuck is stretching it. But I get what he means, there were a lot that were just badass monster designs like Nidoking, Rhydon, Scyther, etc. Gen 2 made things a bit more rounded with the anime in mind and also added baby Pokemon.

>>11944724
Raichu is badass.

>>11944724
Aw, so cute. I want to squeeze his plushy for $29.95+tax.

>>11944693
>fanart
>oversized to seem cooler
Nidoking is a 4'07" (~140cm) purple bunny rabbit with spikes on it

>>11944754
>fanart
Pretty sure that's a Sugimori original

>>11944802
https://x.com/fenyo_n/status/1694810388985225557
Nay, it's from an artist going by fenyo_n. He also does very convincing Toriyama imitations.

>>11944770
Kawaii!!!
Sqee!

>>11944802
No, what I posted was a Sugimori original. That anon posted fanart from here: https://x.com/fenyo_n/status/1694810388985225557
Nidoking is small

>>11944809
I stand corrected, that's damn impressive.

>>11944813
tbf sizes weren't always consistent in official artwork either

>>11943834 (OP)
Because there were caveman platformers Pre-Mario.

>>11943954
>The craze started in the late 1800s.

I thought it was around the 1950s.

>>11946469
Close. By the 60s, there was a "Dinosaur Renaissance." This was around the time we started to find out Dinos were more bird-like than we initially thought.