CRT Television

So a lot of points of the intensive, like if it's relevant, Mikael will crack out a screenshot folder and then everyone has to kind of like, it's like when the teacher brings the projector in or the TV and like, you know, I go back to the 80s now with like, you know, I'm sure classrooms are more technologically advanced, but like, you know, oh, we're going to show a video.

So you have to use something like those old CRTVs, CRT TVs, right? And they'd have like a trolley for a big trolley with a VCR on it.

They'd have to wheel it into the room, you know, like, oh, shit's going to go down.

So it's the same kind of vibe, like Mako's on the floor and everyone has to gather around and like read something off his slightly smudged screen or not read something, but look at some pictures.

Why was he electrocuted?

Because that giant CRT TV landed on his head and you heard the buzzing sound, him going underneath, Shaggy style.

This is the thing with all the body count and with all the suspects, right? There's a lot to manage here.

And one character who isn't adequately explained is Sydney's dad.

And Bison's headquarters is this great underground supervillain lair, and he's got what all 90s kids dreamed of.

The one wall that's a giant bank of CRT TVs.

Yes.

Everyone wanted to hook the Nintendo up to that.

Mm-hmm.

I have a theory that this game takes place around, like, 1995 or '98 or something like that because there's, there's CRT TVs everywhere, videotapes.

Mm-hmm.

But there's also, you'll find a, a, like a candy bar cell- style cell phone.

... then he's talking to Cobra and, like, like-

A giant CRT TV.

Oh, man.

You're like, "Oh my God, this guy."

Our light guns were...

So light guns, if you don't remember, like, the, back in the day, they can only work on CRT TVs, and the light guns we had, probably because we got them from Tim, um [laughs] they, the sights were off, so you had to, like, aim slightly to the right to hit your target.

I'm pretty sure they all had issues eventually.

Yeah.

You think it's, how could the light guns work back then with technology we had? But it's so simple the way it works.

And it can only truly work in CRT TVs.

When you use them now, it's not using the same technology.

It's literally using gyroscopes and all that to where you're actually pointing, like the Joy-Cons.

So that was kind of the design of it, was to create ambiguity around when it is because you never know where you are in a dream.

And so you have technology, and then you have those CRT TVs, but you have modern cars, and you have old cars.

And-

Right

Yeah.

No, we didn't have mute on CRT TVs back then.

Oh, my God.

I wonder if kids played Mario Brothers listening to that the entire time then.