A Love Letter to Plastic Junk: Nintendo’s weirdest Inventions
Why the loud, clunky gadgets of the 80s reveal what we've lost in the age of frictionless tech.
Look at a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox Series X today and you see a monolith. They are sleek, silent, matte-black or white towers designed to disappear into your media cabinet. They are 'frictionless.' They are optimized. And, frankly? They are a little boring.
Walking into a living room in 1989 was like seeing a crime scene of grey plastic. You saw a floor…
