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This comparison meme outlines the widely perceived differences in how three major video game companies handle fan-made games created using their intellectual property. The first entry features the Sega logo paired with the cover of Sonic Mania, noting that Sega officially supports and releases high-quality fan games, having previously hired Sonic fan game creators to make Sonic Mania an official title. The second entry shows the Valve logo next to the cover of Black Mesa, a fan-made remake of Half-Life, explaining that Valve allows fan games to be sold commercially if creators adjust the title slightly and acquire a license, even drawing inspiration from these fan projects for their own official games. The final entry features the Nintendo logo next to the cover of AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake), a popular fan Metroid title that was hit with a DMCA takedown shortly after release, with the punchline reading 'Hippity Hoppity, your game is now my property' followed by 'DMCA Takedown Notice' mocking Nintendo's reputation for aggressively taking down fan projects using their IP.

Hippity Hoppity Your Fan Game Is Now My Property

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This satirical meme uses crude stick figure and Wojak art to comment on the video game industry. Multiple major game publishers and platforms including Ubisoft, Blizzard, EA, Nintendo, Epic Games, PlayStation, and Xbox are depicted as decapitated/exploding stick figures, representing their repeated anti-consumer decisions, failed launches, and self-inflicted reputational damage. The Steam platform is shown as a calm, unharmed Wojak character standing to the right. An angry bearded Wojak points at Steam and yells "Monopoly!", mocking common accusations that Steam holds an unfair monopoly, when in reality all competing platforms have actively harmed their own user bases while Steam avoids self-sabotage to remain dominant. A small GOG (Good Old Games) mascot appears as a minor, largely irrelevant competitor in the bottom right corner.

Steam does nothing and still wins

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This is a relatable humor meme using 8-bit pixel art assets from the classic Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. 3. The top of the image has bold white text reading 'REMEMBER THAT LEVEL IN SUPER MARIO 3, WHERE THE SUN IS TRYING TO KILL YOU?'. Additional bold white text on the right middle of the image says 'THAT'S TODAY.'. The visual shows the iconic hostile angry sun enemy from Super Mario Bros. 3's desert levels floating in a bright blue sky, with Mario standing on sandy desert ground with small hills in the background. The joke draws a comparison between extremely hot, unbearable sunny real-world weather and the infamous difficult game level where the aggressive sun chases and attacks the player character.

Super Mario 3 Killer Sun Level Hot Day Meme

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This two-panel meme uses the popular Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz 'two nickels' template from *Phineas and Ferb* to joke about the recent trend of AAA video games raising their standard edition price to $79.99 (colloquially referenced as $80). The first panel features Doofenshmirtz next to the official *Grand Theft Auto 6* cover art, with text stating 'If I had a nickel every time a game's standard edition started at $79.99, I'd have two nickels'. The second panel shows a confused Doofenshmirtz next to the *Mario Kart World* cover art, with the follow-up text 'Which isn't a lot but weird that the first nickel was a Mario Kart game'. The joke highlights the unexpected rise in base game pricing, and the additional surprise that a Mario Kart title was one of the first major releases to adopt the higher $80 price point before the highly anticipated GTA 6.

GTA 6 And Mario Kart Are Both $80 Standard Edition Meme

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This humorous gaming meme displays a grid of six different electronic and gaming devices under the heading 'Systems my family owned, according to my mum:'. Each device, regardless of its actual brand, is marked with a red 'Nintendo' label. The devices shown are a Sony PlayStation 1, a vintage desktop PC setup, a Nintendo Game Boy, a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, a Sega Dreamcast, and an original Microsoft Xbox. The joke is a relatable commentary on how many parents unfamiliar with gaming hardware refer to all game consoles and even unrelated electronics as 'Nintendo' indiscriminately.

Everything is a Nintendo to My Mum

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This 4-panel meme repurposes the iconic *Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring* scene where hobbits Merry and Pippin ask Aragorn for a second meal after breakfast. The dialogue is rewritten to joke about video game consumer culture: first, Merry asks 'What about Ocarina of Time Remake?', next Aragorn responds dismissively 'We already had it.', then Merry acknowledges this while showing the official *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS* remake box art saying 'We've had one, yes.', finally he follows up cheekily 'What about second REMAKE?'. The meme jokes about widespread fan demand for an additional modern high-definition remake of the classic Zelda title, as well as mocking Nintendo's common business practice of re-releasing older games for new consoles for full price, as referenced in the associated post title that parodies Nintendo as 'Johntendo' demanding consumer money for the second remake in 2026.

What About Second Ocarina of Time Remake LOTR Meme

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This is a two-panel black and white edited manga meme displaying the heavily polarized common fan reactions to official Nintendo Direct presentation events. The left panel shows an edited, overjoyed, tearfully happy version of One Piece protagonist Monkey D. Luffy with a dialogue bubble reading 'THIS Nintendo Direct IS SO GOOD I COULD DIE!!', representing fans who are extremely satisfied with the announcements shared in the Direct. The right panel shows an edited, horrified and enraged version of Luffy wearing a Super Mario franchise hat, with a dialogue bubble reading 'THIS Nintendo Direct IS SO BAD I COULD DIE!!', representing fans who are extremely disappointed by the Direct's content, highlighting the frequent split opinions that follow these Nintendo events.

The Reactions of the Nintendo Direct basically

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This is a two-panel gaming meme. The top panel shows a mockup of a Nintendo Switch 2 logo paired with the official logo for *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time*, implying a port or remake of the classic Nintendo 64 game is coming to the next Nintendo console. The bottom panel edits Majora's Mask, the iconic cursed mask from *The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask*, over the character Lloyd Christmas from the film *Dumb and Dumber*, in the famous 'so you're telling me there's a chance' reaction scene. The joke expresses fans' hopeful excitement that if *Ocarina of Time* is getting a modern re-release, there is also a possibility *Majora's Mask* will get the same treatment, which the mask character is enthusiastically reacting to.

I like those odds

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This is a parody meme joking about a supposed upcoming remake of Nintendo's Star Fox video game franchise. The top text reads "The Star Fox remake looks great so far:", below which is edited promotional art for the 2024 DreamWorks animated film *The Wild Robot*. The art features the film's core cast of anthropomorphic animal characters: a frog with a magnifying glass, a blue macaw, a fox in a brown jacket, and a rabbit holding drumsticks. The official Star Fox logo is overlaid on the image to complete the gag, as these four animals visually align perfectly with the four core members of the Star Fox video game team: Slippy Toad (frog), Falco Lombardi (bird), Fox McCloud (fox), and Peppy Hare (rabbit).

The Star Fox Remake Looks Great So Far Meme

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This is a two-panel comparison meme featuring Bowser from the Super Mario franchise. The top panel displays the bright, stylized, cartoony in-game version of Bowser standing aggressively with clenched fists, labeled 'Gameplay:'. The bottom panel shows the more detailed, realistic, gritty version of Bowser from the 2023 Super Mario Bros. Movie with a furious expression, labeled 'Cutscenes:'. The meme humorously highlights the common, often stark difference in graphical quality, tone, and character presentation between playable gameplay segments and high-production pre-rendered cutscenes in video games.

Bowser Gameplay vs Cutscene Contrast Meme

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This meme jokes about Microsoft's failed attempt to launch Blinx the Time Sweeper as the official Xbox mascot to compete with Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic. The top section is a scan of a vintage Official Xbox Magazine cover featuring Blinx with bold text reading 'Mario, Sonic... Prepare for war BLINX IS HERE!', which was a real promotional announcement for the 2002 Blinx game. The bottom section shows official art of Mario and Sonic both laughing hysterically and pointing mockingly at the old announcement, referencing the fact that Blinx never gained mainstream popularity and was quickly forgotten as an Xbox mascot.

Microsoft Really Thought They Had a Mascot

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This meme is a screenshot of a post from X (formerly Twitter) user @mothcharm, whose display name is 'sword' with a trans pride flag and 'SHOP OPEN' tag in their handle. The post text reads 'internet going down, mutuals hop on', placed above a screenshot of the classic Nintendo DS local chat room selection menu. The menu shows four available chat rooms: Chat Room A has 3 of 16 possible users joined, Chat Room B has 1 user, and Chat Rooms C and D are empty, with buttons to go back or join the selected room. The joke plays on nostalgia for the Nintendo DS's local offline chat feature, humorously proposing that mutual close online friends use this old system to stay in contact when the wider internet is not working.

Invite mutuals to join Nintendo DS chat when internet goes down

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