Jumpin on 29 May 2020
Yean, the Sega vs Nintendo wars of the 8 and 16 bit generations was probably mainly - if not completely - a Xennial affair.
What's a Xennial you might ask? It's the generation between Gen X and Millennial. In video game terms, young enough that the 8 and 16-bit Sega/Nintendo consoles weren't too kiddy for us, but old enough that Pokemon was. We're also the generation that first embraced messenger programs back in the mid-late 90s, probably the biggest into DIY stuff, the only generation to have really understood Paul Verhoeven films.
Here's a Xennial guy (a cultural icon of our generation) who explains it quite well (well, an Americanized version).
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
