The Legend of NES

A gaming blog with an emphasis on nostalgia, video games, and Nintendo. Enjoy. And.. in the wake of a Trump candidacy I must get political.

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Atari 2600 (VCS) - Disassembly and Review

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Artist のば

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PlutoniumPlayPin

All about movies and video games.

Weird

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Merry Holidays!

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In Super Mario 64, some non-playable characters keep blinking even when the game is paused.

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Vectrex ad

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Vintage Target ad, Super Nintendo

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The Pac-Man Christmas Story

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Classic NES commercial, NES Classic Edition, Sold out!

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Corporations Buy Their Stock Back Instead of Passing Profits Onto Their Workers As Wages

Wages stagnate as profits are passed directly to shareholders. [i.e. not you]. 

Share repurchase (or stock buyback) is the re-acquisition by a company of its own stock. It represents a more flexible way (relative to dividends) of returning money to shareholders.

In most countries, a corporation can repurchase its own stock by distributing cash to existing shareholders in exchange for a fraction of the company’s outstanding equity; that is, cash is exchanged for a reduction in the number of shares outstanding. The company either retires the repurchased shares or keeps them as treasury stock, available for re-issuance.

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there was a sharp rise in the volume of share repurchases in the US: US$5 billion in 1980 rose to US$349 billion in 2005.

In 2007, buybacks peaked at $589.1 billion

Context: This all started in the 1980s

“For much of the last century, companies were not allowed to buy back stock, except in exceptional circumstances. In the United States, companies have been allowed to buy back stock for most of their existence, but the pace of buybacks did not really start picking up until the early 1980s, which some attribute to a SEC rule (10b-18) passed in 1982…”

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Me inviting boys over.

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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

After all, a fake is a fake… and no matter how much you dress it up, the real thing always wins!

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USA 1993

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Intro Animated with Mario Paint by Mike Matei   

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPi2icrs9c

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Game Gear ad, Sega