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BeyondWalls posted...

Except that's not true. This is a logical inconsistency in the movie. Because the whole neighborhood (including the Coach) is camped outside the rich kid's house waiting to play the NES like it's PS5 rare. Why is the Coach offering money to play the NES if you can pick it up at the store? The movie acts like it's rare one minute then easy to get the next. You've got one scene where the scalper has got one NES left and then a scene where the local store is fully stocked. Whether the NES is "rare" depends on which scene you're watching.

I don't actually recall there being anyone stating that the reason the kids didn't have NES was because it was rare. That might be the assumption you made based on the scenes but I didn't make that assumption. The crowd of kids in front of the house (and the guy with the money) is supposed to emphasize how cool the NES was to the kids (and even adults) and make the point to the daughter that the NES was as important to people back then as the cell phone is to her. The scalper having an NES wasn't supposed to be that this is the only way the kid could get one, it was supposed to give another avenue where the child could have gotten one but his Father once again denied it.

I could be wrong, but I don't think scarcity of NES was played up at all. That was just the conclusion you came to and assumed when you watched it. As someone else mentioned, it probably isn't realistic to think no kids in the neighborhood would have an NES at that point (other than the one kid), but that's the story they chose to tell in this movie. But it wasn't due to not being on shelves, it seems the movie was going for that it was the new toy and all the kids wanted it. I don't recall if it was because the parents couldn't afford it (was the one kid who had it played up as a rich kid?).

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