just saw a video where someone who does retro computer and video game stuff was talking about stuff people sent him
he got a box full of sega master system stuff, pulls a boxed copy of Phantasy Star off the top of it, "I'm not familiar with this one" puts it aside
what
to be fair he mostly does stuff about 8-bit computers like the C64 and early PC-compatibles, rather than dedicated video game consoles but still
it's _phantasy star_.
not the greatest game ever (people do look back very fondly on it though) but surely the _series_ would be recognisable at least?
then again, this is the same video in which I learned that the apparently quite well-known spy vs spy was a video game and not a cartoon (hey, that art style looks very much like it could be a hannah-barbara cartoon or something) (it was the game underneath phantasy star in the stack, and the guy said "oh now this one I know, this was one of my favorites on the amiga")
different people have different experiences and sometimes it throws us off a bit when something you consider to be a _very_ basic thing, one of the absolute classics, turns out to be something someone else has never heard of
@Felthry Yeah, I've got a circle of younger friends I'm in a similar boat with. Sometimes have to ask if they're familiar with my favorite franchises before I tell a joke.
Well, originally it was a long running comic that had a one-page cartoon in every Mad magazine. Then it was made into a game on the early PCs, had a few translations to carts on early game systems, and then got made into a cartoon on the MadTv series.
It was honestly a very fun game!
I'm actually really hoping that they were making a joke.
like, how do you do anything even tangentially related to video games and not know the name phantasy star