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
like, how do you do anything even tangentially related to video games and not know the name phantasy star
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")
@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!
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