couchmonkey on 09 October 2007
I first noticed it in the Super NES / Genesis era, like others said. The thing is, without the internet, people had to talk and get along in real life...I don't know about you guys, but I don't see such heated, "I hate console X" debates in real life...people want to get along. On the Internet, nobody cares about getting along so they can say whatever they want.
Had the Internet been available, I'm sure fanboy rantings would have been just as bad back in the 16-bit era as they are now. I remember after Mortal Kombat came out, magazines started getting flooded with "envelope" art of Mario and Sonic performing gory fatalities on each other. It's pretty funny in retrospect.
