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Yakko's World, Thursday, Period 2
"Back in the early 1990s, we were ignorant about the rest of the world," Yakko said, standing in front of a curtain at the front of the room. "Sure, we knew the rest of the world existed, we'd had some wars and stuff. But what we also didn't know was that soon we would learn something through the introduction of something else."
"That something else? A video game. It was Road Brawler 2, subtitle? The World Warrior." The curtain lifted, showing a variety of arcade cabinets for the original game, the Illustrious Volume, Mega Road Brawler 2, Road Brawler 2 Accelerated, and Yet More Characters. They were all basically the same thing, but each one had more characters.
"When you chose a character, you could see what country they came from. If you wanted to know where China was, pick the girl who's been the subject of way too many creepy pieces of fan art and one terrible movie. If you wanted to know where the US was, you had two choices, both of them blond. It was a magical game that told us that we're not all that different, especially thanks to limited graphical abilities and not caring if two characters had exactly the same moves."
"Unless you're from India, in which case you're a massive stereotype with stretchable limbs. But even that was fair, because who wouldn't want to punch someone from across the room?"
"Call it 90s nostalgia, I won't blame you," Yakko said casually, "but when I think of how people learned about countries back then, I think of my own song, Yakko's World, which was very popular and was used in commercials for my show. But this video game did come in at a very distant second."
"So go ahead and fight! Use the game, just start punching each other. I'm leaving the choice up to you."
"That something else? A video game. It was Road Brawler 2, subtitle? The World Warrior." The curtain lifted, showing a variety of arcade cabinets for the original game, the Illustrious Volume, Mega Road Brawler 2, Road Brawler 2 Accelerated, and Yet More Characters. They were all basically the same thing, but each one had more characters.
"When you chose a character, you could see what country they came from. If you wanted to know where China was, pick the girl who's been the subject of way too many creepy pieces of fan art and one terrible movie. If you wanted to know where the US was, you had two choices, both of them blond. It was a magical game that told us that we're not all that different, especially thanks to limited graphical abilities and not caring if two characters had exactly the same moves."
"Unless you're from India, in which case you're a massive stereotype with stretchable limbs. But even that was fair, because who wouldn't want to punch someone from across the room?"
"Call it 90s nostalgia, I won't blame you," Yakko said casually, "but when I think of how people learned about countries back then, I think of my own song, Yakko's World, which was very popular and was used in commercials for my show. But this video game did come in at a very distant second."
"So go ahead and fight! Use the game, just start punching each other. I'm leaving the choice up to you."
Talk to Yakko