Sonic the Hedgehog has been around for a quarter of a century .
The Game Boy is all grown up at 27-years-old .
Released in 1989, the same year as the fall of the Berlin wall.
If Mario were a real person, he would be about 59 years old .
According to Shigeru Miyamoto , Mario “was about 24-25 years old” when he first appeared in Donkey Kong back in 1981.
High school seniors today have NEVER experienced the release of a Sega home console.
The final Sega home console, the Dreamcast (I’LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU!), was released in the US on September 9, 1999.
“Fatality” took on a whole new meaning when Mortal Kombat first splattered pixelated blood on our screens 24 years ago.
And caused the formation of the ESRB .
It’s been 12 years since we last got a Mega Man X game.
And it’s been A DECADE since the Wii was first released.
The console was released on November 19, 2006.
If the Playstation were a human, it would be old enough to drink.
Released December 3, 1994 . Discontinued 11 years ago.
It’s been 14 years since wireless controllers were released forever liberating us from accidentally tripping over them.
It’s been 22 years since Battletoads (Pimple, Zitz, and Rash) had their own game.
Their last official game was Battletoads Arcade, released in 1994.
You can now play Doom, the ultra-violent, mind-blowing, first-person 3D shooter that broke all sorts of technical grounds back in 1993, on the Macbook Pro Touch Bar .
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The N64 is older than the class of 2017 .
Marvel vs. Capcom was released the same year Google was founded .
This is how old the main cast of The Wizard is today:
Yes, that’s Fred Savage.
Final Fantasy VII will be 20 YEARS OLD next year.
…and so will Mario Kart 64 .
Speaking of 64, the last video game to ever be labelled “64” was released 15 years ago .
Dr. Mario 64 was released April 8, 2001.
Pokémon Red and Blue was introduced to the world the same year that Tom Holland, the new Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Homecoming, was born .
And there were 651 LESS Pokémon back in 1996.
You can fit the entire NES library into a single 128 gb SD card roughly 426 times.
According to this Reddit thread .
If Lara Croft were a real person, she would be 48 years old.
She was born February 14, 1968 .
This viral video of the N64 kid was uploaded onto YouTube TEN YEARS AGO.
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The video itself is 18 years old.
Kylie Jenner was barely two weeks old when this game was released:
Here’s what Phil Moore, the host of Nick Arcade, looks like today:
Street Fighter II is older than Justin Bieber:
Street Fighter II came out in 1991. Bieber was born in 1994.
Also, Ryu is 52-years-old:
And Ken Masters is 50.
According to TMNT: Turtles in Time, in four years, this is what the year 2020 will look like:
Filled with neon and hovering Turtle boards.
This commercial for the first Super Smash Bros. came out the same year that Napster debuted:
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NO ONE from the Class of 2017 was around when The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was first released.
If Final Fantasy VIII continued until today, these would be the ages of the main characters:
The first-ever commercial video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released 44 years ago .
And finally, here’s very young Paul Rudd in a 1991 Super Nintendo commercial looking…pretty much like he does now:
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