NINTENDO EFFECT
If you are a gamer or if your children are, then you would know what’s an Nintendo
But do you know what’s an Nintendo effect?
There are two definitions. The first one is very simple and clean while the second one is a wake up call to humanity…
The FIRST “Nintendo Effect” generally refers to the phenomenon where the company’s unique, accessible, and often nostalgic games or hardware revitalize older franchises, drive massive sales, and normalize gaming through high-profile, CC mainstream popularity.
It frequently highlights how Nintendo’s brand and portability turn niche or older games into popular, must-own, “portable” hits!
All okay, you say, but then you have the Nintendo effect of the war! Being in the middle of one, this is the best time to tell about this…
The “Nintendo Effect” in war refers to the sanitization and gamification of military conflict, particularly how precision-guided warfare in the 1990-1991 Gulf War was presented to the public, resembling a video game!
News media, supplied with Pentagon footage, showed nighttime, black-and-white, high-tech weaponry (cruise missiles and laser-guided bombs) hitting targets with extreme precision, creating a “virtue-less” view of combat.
This presentation, often described as a “Nintendo War,” altered public perception by making warfare seem clean, precise, and low-cost in human life, according to analysis of that era.
BUT THIS IS A CATASTROPHY!
This trivializes the conflict!
Modern interpretations of this phenomenon suggest that portraying military actions via gaming-style interfaces or “stylized” media can sanitize the brutality of war!
The “Nintendo Effect” highlights the tension between the reality of war and its representation in media, often reducing complex and devastating human events into simplified, sanitized, or “gamified” narratives!
Basically, a person sitting in a close room, much away from the battle in just in front of the TV screen can just push a button and thousand can be killed! But he or she would not even see or feel the human aspect!
As far as she or he is concerned, he or she, Might as well, be playing a game!
That is in short, the Nintendo effect!
When will we wake up and smell the coffee and realise that war is not a game?
Or sleep away silently as lives are lost and peace gets rare…
Or listen to some nice songs say by Sujatha Menon…
Your choice…
Humanity or insanity…
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