Then I take it your factual "inaccuracies" are also supposed to be a joke? Neither of those characters were released on the NES, rather, they were on the SNES. But they were not Nintendo icons like the article claims, either, both were whored out to so many different systems that it's not funny. (Chuck Rock's start was on the Amiga, and Bubsy was simultaneously on the Genesis, Jaguar, and I believe something else alongside the SNES release.)

I'm sorry, but if this article is not ignorance, it's trolling. Neither of which should have been allowed by a competent staff, especially for things so verifyable. And if you're trying to anger people, that's even worse. For a magazine that tries time and time again to say they're not biased, they sure need to work on it. Actions speak louder than words, and the bias in their actions is impossible to ignore.

It's quite obviously a joke. The writer is being sarcastic. Even without the Chuck Rock and Bubsy references, it's quite clear that it's a joke, with the writer assuming the comedic role of faux-ignorance based on the fact that Pit/Kid Icarus disappeared for so long.

They're also the ones that thought Mario Kart Wii had 24 tracks.

Isn't that just the perfect alibi? Everytime I say something stupid, ignorant or inaccurate I can follow with "It was all a joke". For example:

A: Did you know that italian people love pizza so much they named some regions after the pizza?

*awkward silence*

B: You know that it is the other way around don't you?

A: *after a long pause, pretending he is not retarded* Of course, that is part of the joke.

It may be a joke after all, but not clever enough to tell it wasn't just a dumb mistake.

It's actually funnier if you get that Bubsy is a slightly more recent character than Kid Icarus.  The article is basically saying, "come on, Nintendo, are you really going to use a character almost two decades old and not make us a new game, so normal people who don't fact check their game on Wikipedia actually know who the guy is?"

How is that trolling anyone?  They're saying they want a new game in the series, and that it's been a really long time.

Also, I wouldn't take it too hard that Makingmusic doesn't remember as far back as Kid Icarus.  He had the distinct disadvantage of not being born yet.

Someone can't use Google, I guess.

I guess  we can say the cancer is getting HUGE?!

:p

I don't know if I'd call Bubsy "slightly more recent" than Pit; the difference between the 2 is 7 years. (Kid Icarus on the FDS dates to 1986, Bubsy released first in 1993.) And the article doesn't scream that they want a new Kid Icarus game, it screams to me of ignornance of the actual existing past. Should that be their goal, then they failed in doing it.

Yes, there are some who don't remember when Kid Icarus was out. But technically, MM was born before the second game, which launched in 1991. At the profile age of 22, that puts his birth year at 1987-1988, or an age of 3-4 upon release of the Game Boy sequel. By this time, I know I was already playing games in my life, so it stands to reason that he may have been exposed to Pit. Of course, I don't know this for certain, but I'm not going to definitively state it one way or the other without all the facts.

Yeah, this is called worrying about the details too much.  It's a joke.

(I think, I'm only 99% sure, but I do trust my perception of reality more than people who freak out over jokes and think video game related factual errors are worse than likening a generation of your fellow forumites to cancer .)

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