Is 2017 Nintendo's Finest Hour?

[bigjon]

VGPolyglot said:

TheWPCTraveler said:

"Finest Hour" means nothing without context, which everyone else seems to have missed in this thread - including the OP.

Let me quote the last two paragraphs of a speech by Winston Churchill.

What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over ... the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Think of this as overcoming great odds that were not in their favor - and 2017 being Nintendo's Finest Hour suddenly makes more sense.

And here's another quote by Winston Churchill:

 "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

I think the point he is making is that if the people of those regions had gotten their shit together over the millennia prior to the European colonial era that they would not have been conquered essentially. See place like Japan or China that also figured out how to create functional civilization.