This video of a Nintendo-related news report from the late 80’s is awesome on so many levels. First: Bill O’Reilly was the host of Inside Edition back then, rather than an incredibly popular/controversial TV political show host. Second: Inside Edition is still on the air almost 20 years later! Third, it’s a video game story that doesn’t have any negative thing to say about video games other than the fact they’re fun and can sometimes be difficult. Fourth: The video game counselor’s heroic mullet. Fifth: Howard Phillips‘ bow tie.
I still have my Nintendo. It doesn’t work anymore, but I keep it just the same. I logged too many thousands of hours on it to toss it out for the trash. No matter how many hours I tried, I could never land that one super-long jump in Super Mario Brothers world 8-2, so I never beat the game.
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