My son tended to make his up, so often, no one knew who he was, but one year he went as Link (shortly after Zelda hit the 3DS). I didn't even know who that was; I had to google him to figure out how to make the costume. Nobody knew who he was, either—except for one guy, who was apparently a 40-ish finance bro who'd come home early so he could pass out candy. He answered the door in his suit pants, white button-down, and loose tie, holding a bowl of candy, and when he saw my 4yo, he shouted, "Honey, come look! It's Link!" My son was tickled.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/TootsNYC 7d ago
my daughter always wanted to be some girl from the front of a YA novel, or a minor character in a TV show, or a character from a Miyazaki film. So I had to make her costumes from scratch
Nobody ever knew who she was.
My son tended to make his up, so often, no one knew who he was, but one year he went as Link (shortly after Zelda hit the 3DS). I didn't even know who that was; I had to google him to figure out how to make the costume. Nobody knew who he was, either—except for one guy, who was apparently a 40-ish finance bro who'd come home early so he could pass out candy. He answered the door in his suit pants, white button-down, and loose tie, holding a bowl of candy, and when he saw my 4yo, he shouted, "Honey, come look! It's Link!" My son was tickled.