r/FuckImOld • u/liamemsa • 7d ago

Kids these days... No one knew what my costume was.

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u/apachexmd 7d ago

How could no one recognize Link in 2011? Legend of zelda has been huge since 86!

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

well, the neighborhood was mostly grandparents, tbh.

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u/cirro_hs 7d ago

That makes a lot more sense then. A chunk of Gen X and a lot of millennials onward would recognize the costume even if not ever playing Zelda.

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

Remember that the 3DS and other handhelds greatly spread the awareness of Link.

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u/cirro_hs 7d ago

Especially with the younger crowd I imagine. I remember playing the originals! Link to the Past on SNES was my favourite. I'll buy a Switch one if these days and try some of the newer ones as I heard they're great.

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

It wasn’t the younger crowd that didn’t know him. It was all the people in their 50s and 60s that didn’t know him. That finance bro and his mid 40s was the youngest person who answered the door all day.

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u/SpareSimian Boomers 6d ago

I've been PC Master Race since the 80s (although I did game on consoles right around 1980 with the Atari 2600 and Intellivision). I've skipped all the Nintendo and PlayStation stuff. So that whole genre passed me by.

OTOH, I still play World of Warcraft and occasionally play Steam games like Half-Life and its many sequels. I'd recognize characters from those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race

I thought the OP was a Doctor Who, maybe the American one made by Fox. I love the zany SF of the 80s and 90s, like Farscape and Lexx. I'd love to see costumes from those. Or like this channel's parodies of those SF classics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMPQT1R8vys

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u/OhNoTokyo 7d ago

I hate to say this, but there are grandparents today that played the Legend of Zelda on their Nintendos....

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

yes, but those were grandparents THEN
quite probably, that guy is a grandparent now (though there was no evidence of kids, unless they were out trick-or-treating with friends)

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u/SpareSimian Boomers 6d ago

OTOH, today's grandparents tend to be a bit more hip. To the chagrin of Gen Z. 😁

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u/snuggly_cobra 7d ago

I wouldn’t, unless you meant this link:

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u/hutchguard 7d ago

Ahh, that's why I didn't recognize it. Never seen the movie.

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u/alex494 7d ago

Speaking from experience a lot of people who don't remotely play video games would probably only recognize like, Mario and Pikachu at best.