Kind of funny, but not laugh-out-loud, and I still laugh at the Seal of Quality regardless because the first thing to come to mind is that Nintendo certified the game for being good, so standards of good games have probably dropped a long way to still get these seals. How many people laughed at Superman 64 getting the seal? But I remember being suckered into wondering whether I was getting an authentic SNES game when I heard somewhere that an unlicensed version of "Super Punch-Out!!" would not unlock the Special Circuit at the end, so I asked the guy at the Toys R' Us counter whether this copy I was getting was licensed.
Man I loved Toys R' Us's way of getting videogames: you look at small box cover pictures, pick up a paper slip with a giant price slapped on it, buy the game, then go to this counter with hundreds of games in clear view. Guy takes the slip, skims through the giant stack of games, and hands you the box with the game in it, plastic and all.
I'm of the opinion that SNES and N64 box covers were simply better than the DVD-size covers today. Maybe it's the extra real-estate and how, when you rent an SNES or N64 game now, the size of the box is stunning next to the DVD collection on the other shelf. I say it's due to the physical size of the cartridges versus CDs. I remember when the Mario Paint box was huge compared to everything else. I guess we're kind of reliving that now with the huge size of Rock Band + instruments.
Sorry, topic, uh...
NES one about being priced high enough that it'd cost you that much in quarters to beat the game at an arcade, that was funny. I'd say it'd cost me way more than that. N64 one about mashing the analog stick... hey, I thought that only applied to Mario Party 1. GameCube one about releasing one game each month... yeah, I remember it taking forever for new GameCube games to come out. Took a long time for new N64 games too, I think. As for Wii, I think the comic's saying "as long as it fits in the Wii slot, it's good enough... the game itself could be horrible, we don't mind".
Is it really getting to the point that the Virtual Console (or maybe WiiWare) has a better list of games than actual Wii games, or am I getting cynical?