When a 9-Year-Old Sued Nintendo
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- čas přidán 3. 09. 2019
- In 1989, Clark Thiemann was excited to play his brand new NES game, LJN's Major League Baseball. But when he started playing, his favorite MLB superstars weren't in the game. So what did he do? He sued Nintendo, LJN, & Major League Baseball.
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Hey! I'm back! I'm finally all moved in and back to making videos. This is a short one, but I wanted to get something out as soon as I could. Still working on a few big videos as well. Enjoy!
Hey Norm, for real though, will you do an earthbound video?
Welcome back Norm, or as I like to call you, the Ken Burns of video games!
Welcome back,missed your videos!
Thank you
So glad to have you back! 😃👍👍👍👍
"Father, this game contains insufficient data to allow me to make managerial decisions" - Clark, 9 y.o.
I’m not sure why I read that with a British accent
And quote
@@zavier3644 me too dude
I read it in hugh laurie's impression voice like he does in 'fry and laurie'
@@zavier3644 damnnn so did i
“When a 9 year old’s father attempted to sue Nintendo and lost.”
Lol true
Well, he did sue, didn't he? They even showed up in court.
Henrik Vaula Rasmussen True
Im the 666 like
666 likes lol
"why would a kid sue Nintendo?"
video: "… LJN..."
"oh..."
“he’s gonna take you back to the past”
"to play some shitty games that suck ass"
“He rather haaaaaaaaave a Buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear”
He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
Ljn got claped
If a kid sued Nintendo, does that mean i can sue Tony Leondis for making the Emoji Movie?
Yes
According to matpat the movie is illegal
@@justaguy5855 in the end of the video it says that it is legal, so the video was just a rant on how movies don't have to say "this movie was sponsored by" while on youtube you have to
I will be Your lawyer 👌
@@theartillery9724 watch the full vid
That kid's first mistake was wanting to play an LJN game.
Yep.
I agree. The kid should have checked the internet to see what other people were saying about it, THEN made a decision. What an absolute fool. I mean, he's 9 years old. Should be aware that everything isn't as it seems and be cynical about everything ever...
@@dadamj the internet wasn't nearly as big and widely used as it is now, chances are, the kid didn't even know the internet existed when he bought the game.
EDIT: I just realized this is sarcasm, my bad.
But back then people didn't know about LJN.
Corky was displaying how absurd it is to expect a 9 year old in the late '80s to research these claims by taking it to the extreme.
Their comment is a criticism of those who absolve companies of all responsibility for false advertising and expect the consumer to do research before buying any game.
So the family sued Nintendo because the box failed to accurately represent the game. What would've happened if the kid had bought the original Mega Man?
That's an entirely different matter, but you have a point.
I don't know why anyone would buy the game to play as the dude on the box art lol
or even most games for the C64, most covers had images from other, better ports.
this matter is laughable, even for the era
R.U.S.E 35 because he had a gun?
@@seankorch6280 Because uncanny valley.
They probably later mailed him a picture of the duck hunt dog laughing.
They should have, if they didn't
I remember my mom bought me Ghostbusters on the NES at Toys R Us and when we got home, I was so traumatized by its awfulness that we returned it, no fuss. They must've known.
Wow I feel you.
I think it depends on the Retailer & such if they allow you & such. I never ever even heard of this store.
@@kerry1979 You've never heard of "Toys R Us"...? Whoa..they were basically the biggest toystore around, both in terms of stores and actualy size of the store, seriously I don't think there was any toy-store bigger "Toys R US", it was the size of a Wal-mart. They had stores internationally, not just in the US.
Well, that is until they eventually went bankrupt 2018 and closed all there stores. In 2018, they were acquired by WHP Group, the same company that owns Macy's and they opened an online store..But it's just a shell of it's former self, just another faceless generic online retailer using the Toy R Us name for it's name value and brand recognition.
Nothing will ever be able to replicate that magical feeling you got as kid entering Toy's R Us" and looking through aisle at all the various toys to eventually pick one out. The whole experiance was like a kids dream come true.
(Supposedly, WHP Group is planning on opening up to a dozen flagship Toys R Us stores in select cities at Macy locations this year. It's not quite the same thing, but it's better than just an online store!)
He settled on a game: LJN’s Major League Baseball
Me: Oh no...
You didn't need to comment oh no your pfp says that perfectly XD
I would slap my kid if he ever got a game from ljn
Lol right soon as I saw ljn I said here we go...
@@Takinthehobbitstoisengard they had some cool wwf games for snes
All I heard was Ljn and I said the same thing
I'm sueing this video for false advertising because it sounds more like the kid's DAD sued nintendo
r/wooosh
@@flourtortilllas9147 I'm sueing you for trying to sue me for sueing this video, that depicts the father of a 9 year old child sueing Nintendo on the child's behalf, when i bet the kid didn't even care that much and the legal case was completely out of his hands once it got to his legal representative, i.e. his dad
Stop with the sueing!
r/canwepleasestoplinkingsubredditsoutsideofredditthankyou
@@Discrym yes WE NEED REDIT NOW
"LJN"
Well there's your problem right there.
Little joking numbuts
*laughing
Laughing Joking Numbnuts
I’m sure AVGN would be very pleased to find out that “Laughin Joking Numbnutts” was sued.
Now Nintendo is suing nine year olds for uploading music/gameplay of hacks on youtube
Good job commenting on a video you didn't finish watching.
@@johnalbertson79 What?
@@johnalbertson79 Good job commenting on a comment you didn't read.
Oh so that a revenge, i just realised that
@@fieryelf Nice
We were poor in my house. My dad only let me sue Atari. I was always jealous of the kids that got to sue Nintendo.
👍🏼
Noo poor atari whyy
lol hahahaha
Underated Comment!
Truly underrated
Lmao I love how he's complaining about the players not having a name when graphically they all look the same.
That's the point. If you can't identify a player by its name what will you use? A bunch of pixels?
@@altus3278 yeah, this comment is so dumb
Vishwa your right
weimu you use their jersey number
@@Celicagame13 yeah good luck with that
This kid probably grew up to be the frat boy who constantly reminds you that his dad is a lawyer if he even feels slightly uncomfortable.
I give him props for collecting soda cans to earn money to buy the game with his own money, when most lawyers woulda bought their kid the game for them.
No I don't think so the kid was hsut worst because she didnt know what his favourite players are and his dad just saw cash signs.
*Gets rejected by girl of his dreams*
"My father will hear about this! He's a lawyer!"
If we assume that entire part of the story is true to begin with.
Incomplete game in 1989: "Give me back my money!"
Incomplete game in 2019: "Shut up and take my money!"
@Jacob Harvath Back in the day, we demanded our money back for incomplete games. Today, people buy incomplete games and keep throwing money at it for DLC. Didn't think my comment was so obscure?
@@psolus21 now Developing a game is more expensive, do *YOU* want to pay 150 Buck for a complete game?
Justin Y. Gamers would like the full release of the game,dlcs is making the release longer,well the developer did do something to check the game.
@@resmur8095 not really more expensive , if you have a good team you can make a good game with not too much resources , also developers earn more money from games
This is why I love 2019
“When a 9-year-old’s lawyer-father sued Nintendo.”
Sounds to me he wanted them attorney fees
Sorry wrong reply
Let’s sue Norm!
It depends on how the paperwork was filed. If the father was only representing his son, then it is the son vs. Nintendo. But I am not sure if a minor can sue in their state so it may have been the father bringing the lawsuit.
Look man, it gets more clicks. Norm needs money just like the rest of us lol
Up Next: A five-year old sues Microsoft for not having enough exclusives.
After that: a 2 year old sues Sony for making a console he can't even play yet
Good luck trying to play starfield in ps5
Newborn sues Sega for not giving him a bottle
69 likes lol
@@bobertdraws9139 70 now!
"LJN's Major League Baseball" well that was a terrible choice
That's right
The true story
Child: can i sue Nintendo because of a game?
Father: *y e s*
And he sis
fathers idea
You realize nobody comes back to your comment to see how it's doing so why do people like you make those stupid "edit"s thanking people for liking your comment?
RBLXMC YOUR WELCOME 👋😇👍 nowon kjhg☝️😾🖕
nowon kjhg Facts why tf do people do this shit it’s not cute
Me at 9 years old: **playing with my game cube**
Clark at 9 years old: **tries to sue a whole entire company**
I mean, Clark lost so you are not missing out much
You mean fails to sue a while entire company
@@pwnership3292 Don't you mean "Sues a company but fails the case"? "Sueing" doesn't include winning. It just means going to court saying that someone or something did you wrong by law and that you want them investigated, as well as giving you a lawyer if you don't already have one.
@@moondust2365
well you just cooked the joke.
Is Clark still alive or is he dead
I remember me, my brother and sister all chipping in to buy that game brand new for $70! The disappointment was that the game sucked, it was just awful.
That’s why I think this lawsuit should’ve won. There was a huge problem back then because you were taking a gamble on games you’d never played. That was bad for the industry. And it wasn’t like people could easily make copies of the games. Doing that required expensive equipment
No returns after shrink wrap was bad and anti-consumer
@@MaxOakland How was no returns after shrink wrap even legal? If you buy something and it's not what you expected, you should be able to return it, because you obviously wouldn't know the game was different from what was advertised until you broke the shrink wrap. Yes, you shouldn't be able to return something if you just change your mind, but when the packaging is misleading, I don't see how this was legal.
@@xei2694 I agree 100%. That never should have been legal. Consumers need more protections from corporations
If only it had players names, you'd have been happy. Lol
I had that game as a child...I remember being confused by the roster too. I also recall a glitch where you could get your players into the stands...and the ball physics were pretty wonky.
PLOT TWIST!!! That nine year old kid grew up to be the AVGN...And now you know, the rest of the story.
Maybe that’s why Nintendo got pissed when James used the original title “Angry Nintendo Nerd”
Ah, so that's why he never plays sport games, it left a mark in him for the rest of he's life lol
Excellent Paul Harvey reference. Well played.
DW3010, no I don’t
Paul Duhamel glad you noticed that ;)
I bet the kid got upset that he lost his case and ended up becoming a Sega fan.
Sega (and later EA) did shell out big $$$ for player liknesses unlike LJN here.
Sega would welcome him to the next level with open arms
Not a Sega fan, but they had excellent sports titles.
@@allewis4008 World Series Baseball I & II for the Saturn....oh my yesssss that game was frickin epic
can't lose the case if it's not heard :D
9 year old: *sues Nintendo
Mario: This is Not Okie Dokie
Rare footage of young AVGN fulfilling his dreams.
@@rollinontheboard it's a joke
"Dad my game doesnt have player names. Can I sue somebody?"
"Sure son! You can always sue somebody!"
@@ashkitt7719 🎵FUK YEAH!!🎵
@@encountersltd yum
teen: hey dad, my red bull didn't give me wings
Dad: Then we sue red bull
teen: why?
Dad: because suing people solves everything
Reminds me of Dib and Professor Membrane
I read this in Markiplier's voice for no specific reason...
Everyone should learn a lesson from this story: never buy LJN games.
except spiderman maximum carnege that is actully a good LJN game
Phone Guy's Yeah “ITS NOT SHIT!”
They're a publisher, they're more a toy company than a video game company and it should he clear by now that they commissioned games by actual developers such as Rare and Atlus
The WWF Raw & Royal Rumble games on the SNES & Genesis weren't half bad for their time and they were also published by LJN
Their wrestling games were great though.
instead of buying his kid a 40 dollar game, he spend 1000s in legal fees.
Just goes to show you, any idiot can finish law school.
wasn't he a lawyer himself? so what legal fees?
@@sampanna6983 the Attorney they hired? Lawrence Kanaga? The one he mentioned out loud
Thumbnail says:
Clark: "I don't like this game! It sucks!"
Nick: "Shut up you damn spoiled kid!"
This is the 1989 version of leaving a one star review.
Lol
The outro always feels like I just watch a show from PBS.
I always think this and I think it's intentional.
This video was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by contributions from viewers like you. Thank you!
The nostalgia man.
I think that's the idea.
Yo it does makes it 100x better
Moral of the story: Sports games suck, go play normal games for the love of god
>normal games
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
No indication the game sucks. Just didn't have the players' names
moral of the story: pirate everything. eff nintendo and every other capitalist
Bro NBA jam slaps and I don't even like sport games that much
@@nil0bject especially from communists, wouldn't want them breaking their ideal by making profit for themselves off of "evil" capitalism. Its better to hold them to their beliefs.
If they're living in Westport, CT they can afford the $40 loss.
As soon as you said LJN, I had a bunch of flashbacks of AVGN
LJN?!?!?!
Those are some Laughing Joking Numbnuts
Same
AVGN has Vietnam flashbacks to LJN.
Fred Fuchs is behind this
"Ricky Henderson would also like to have Ricky Henderson on Ricky Henderson's team!" - Ricky Henderson
Jay Cee Funny, except you spelled his name wrong.
@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew he stole the e
@@21stCenturyDub nice.
I actually heard that in my head like a voice over from one of my ancestors!
God what an absurdly frivolous lawsuit
Plot twist: he was avgn
“Child World” would definitely be shut down as a kids store in 2020. Lmao
david freeeman yeah and so is toys r us
It’s got non-essential shit lmao.
Oooooooo
I feel bad for you Americans, your kids will never experience Toys R Us
@@mooplex4466 no Robo rods kinda sounding sad doe
You want to know what his problem was
Buying a LJN Game in the first place
Lol you deserve more likes
@@yurisstories2865 thank you for writing that comment really appreciated it
Avgn would totally agree
-y e s-
As soon as I heard "LJN" I was like, "Well, there's your problem."
The grass isn’t as green as it is in the game cover THIS IS UNEXCEPTABLE REFUND !!
Imagine suing Nintendo because your 9 year old son got a little upset over a game.
The 9 yr old was quote "not able to make efficient managerial decisions " lol... it's funny that kids thought to sue decades before players would.
Yeah, how many 9 year olds wanted to play "fantasy baseball" in 1980? None. They just wanted to swing and watch the ball go over the fence. Or pitch a strikeout. The fact that this plaintiff took the time to cross compile which player with which states and which jersey number was actually on which team shows that they were not representing "misled children" who played video games, but maybe just children who played Nintendo all day and were also baseball card collector nerds.
@@gdeangelkick yeah
This kid should meet the AVGN and talk to him about how he SUED LJN
Alexei Blagonadezhdin That would make a quality episode we must find the boy and crowdfund a ticket 🎫 to get him to the AGVN “studios”!
Though the kid would now be an adult. I know, just a nit pick, just saying though.
He would probably have some washed up comedian pretend to be the kid.
But LJN is bankrupt
@@scott56994 and ? We still talk about them and their shitty games that suck ass.
What is funny is if someone released an MLB game today, licensed by the MLB and it did not have any of the players on it, people would lose their minds and it would be destroyed by reviews.
This is why back then if there was a game I thought looked like it would be great, I'd go rent it first. If it sucked you were only out the $1 (what it cost back when I had an nes). That's a lot better than being out $30, $40 or more in some cases. One place I used to rent from was even nice enough to let me switch if the game was really bad (no longer in business unfortunately).
If I told my dad that,he would just say ‘I told you not to buy it’😒
Nick, a lawyer
Decided to take things into his hands
*Ace Attorney music starts*
Nightmare of Snipers on Hightower you are not a clown..
You are the entire circus
Reading this as soon as he says it
The dad should have truly taken things into his own hands and not had children.
Objection!!!
Me at 9: *Decorating my Animal Crossing house on my 3DS*
Clark at 9: *Suing a while company*
This is what would happen.
Me: Dad the game isn't what I wanted.
Dad: Told you it was a waste of money before we went in the store...
Me: "Today's kids are DUMB!"
1989:
Generation X: Hold my beer.
ok boomer
Oak ay boom air
Ok boomer
Ok boomer
“Not enough casinos in my basketball game” 0/10
Well this was a baseball game...
@@xarvis9047 r/wooosh
@JoJoMKWUTeam but, it was a joke.
took me a while, but i realized you are talking about nba2k20
@JoJoMKWUTeam I know it was baseball as well.
Imagine being a Japanese corporate giant and then some self entitled 9 year old brat who tells daddy to sue..
lolol can a nine-year old begin litigation? No. Can a nine-year old speak for himself in court? No. Why are all these people chomping at the bit to yell at this kid when it was his father who actually did everything? People are fucking weird.
This kid was way ahead of his time, imagine if sports videogames worked like today back then with the limited 8 bit technology. He definitely didn't know about development time and hardware limitations, but cared more about a player full name and current team.
This is why I'll never understand sports fans...
The embodiment of “let me speak to your manager”
My parents would’ve just laughed at me and said “You should’ve spent your money on something more useful”
Lawyers have a collective reputation of being either disproportionate prissy drama queens or arrogant disconnected bullies against common sense and truth. I wonder why.
9 year old: daddy, can I sue Nintendo?
Dad:Sure.
It's The dad's decision you dumb fuck.
Dad: sure I needed some more money anyway
[Zr]•ɢʀɛʏɮǟʀօռ• No shit dumbass
[Zr]•ɢʀɛʏɮǟʀօռ• why you so angry dog
Dad: Bet
So this continues to affect sports video games even today.
whenever you boot a sports game, one of the flash screens that shows during loading will say when the rosters are accurate as of. Sometimes it’s on the packaging as well.
Everybody when he buys in ljn game: YOU FOOL
This kid is having a hell of a time playing MLB today.
Id never heard of Child World, so the first image made it look like that guy bought a kid at the store
LOL
Mahanahan child clown outlet vibes
The one in the town I grew up in closed in I think 1990. I know I went there but can't remember a thing about it since I was so young at the time.
I remember Child World. It was awesome but not as awesome as Toys R' Us.
I thought about picking up a kid from Child World but it had an LJN logo and I said screw that noise.
Looks like some people have too much time to spend... I guess that kid must now be the kind of guy suing a gun manufacturer for shooting himself a bullet in his foot because he forgot to enable the safety...
As soon as you said LJN i already knew i was in for a hell of a ride.
Long story short, this kid has bad taste in video games. Should've bought Super Mario Bros.
he probably already had it dude
@@L33PL4Y then he should've bought another good game, like Metroid, dude
@@Kodeb8 maybe he already had it, dude
Chillin' Like a Villain Killin' Krillin he should’ve bought another good game, like 7 granddad, dude
@@emo-nordegraf He probably didn't have that, dude.
Poor kid, of all the games he could get, he choose a sports game, and made by LJN nonetheless.
asdaffewwerqa asafdaqwrad it was a fun game though! I came within one team of sweeping everyone. Sadly the only baseball game I was ever good at playing 😅
Could be worse. He could have bought a sports game made by present day EA. If the father sued Nintendo for selling his son a crappy game, imagine what he would have done to EA when he found out his son bought a pre packaged casino.
asdaffewwerqa asafdaqwrad what do you mean poor kid he sued Nintendo 🤬🤬🤬
Yeah, I mean anyone who is stupid enough to actually spend money on a sports game is also stupid and enough of a jackass to sue a children's gaming company.
@@jeremyzak654 😂😂😂😂
This is a very entertaining video with pleasant visuals. great job man!
Alternative title: "When Nintendo sent a 9-year-old to the Shadow Realm".
Everybody: Not everyone can sue a major company.
Clark: Hold my juice.
Hold my Juice😅🤣
Me:hold my Nintendo
Can relate to "hold my juice"
This was a great story! Thank you for a great and informative video!
I am sorry. I remember that game. As a 14 year old sports fan. Being a NYer I was a Yankee fan to be specific. We were absolutely amazed there was a baseball game with real teams and "Numbers" to represent players. We passed it off as the limitations of the system. Even though that wasn't the case. We were happy none the less. Yes, bases loaded was the better game. But real teams and real players ... can't beat it.
*And I do not believe for 1 minute the lawsuit was the kids idea. I think it was entirely the fathers idea when he couldn't get his $39 back. I wish I knew him. At 14 with my paper route. I would have given him his damn money and happily taken the game off his hands.
But hey. Maybe he should have bought RBI baseball that had the real player names and not the real team names.
It just seemed the league and the players unions were not on the same page in the 80s. But each game gave all the players and teams. Just with different ways of handling the lack of licensing.
The lawsuit should have been towards MLB and the MLB players association. Not Nintendo. And even if they did sue them. Their lawsuit didn't have a leg to stand on.
*And for the record. That kids Dad was an ambulance chasing Sheister just trying to make a quick buck thinking he would have the people on his side. But the reality is ... the people saw him as a cheap crybaby trying to leech off the success of Nintendo.
**Furthermore. The ambulance chasing sheister asked for punitive damages. When there was no damage at all. If his claim was 100% truthful. His son was not scarred from the experience. Instead he learned a valuable lesson. That lesson is research before you buy. And before people say, "There was no way to research back then". Nintendo power. Game Informer. GameSpot were all available back then. Also ... video game rentals were a thing back in 89. And every town had 5 Video rental stores. And everybody and their mother had a membership to those stores.
On one hand I'm glad that a father stepped up to the plate for his son, on the other hand, dafuq is he bringing that to court for?
Bidisha Dey Since when? If you’re talking about that one infamous lady who sued McDonalds- the coffee was so hot that it fused her legs together and caused 3rd degree burns. She was hospitalized for 8 days and had skin grafts done. It rooms years of medical treatment to fix it. I’ve spilled a normal decently fresh cup of coffee on myself, and I could rinse it off with minimal damage. There was no reason for that coffee to be that close to boiling. People don’t just sue for hot coffee, they sue because of the hospital fee’s and damages.
Bidisha Dey she was a 79 year old lady... accidents happen- how would you like it if a restaurant served you a drink so hot that it’d give you 3rd degree burns? It’s a safety hazard- when I make coffee in a pot it doesn’t come out 190 degrees Fahrenheit. When you make tea, there’s a waiting period. You don’t immediately eat pastries right out of the oven. She won the suit, for good reason. There were about 700 others who were also scalded by the coffee as well. You don’t just serve people near boiling anything- especially without their knowledge. You’re making light of something that literally scarred someone for life.
@@bidishadey3815 Um, no, no sane person makes coffee with water that hot unless they want their coffee to taste like crap and be too hot to drink. Coffee is supposed to be made with water well below boiling at around 170 farenheit at the most. That McDonald's had been warned twice that their coffee was too hot for consumption before that woman was so horribly burned.
@@bidishadey3815 You are still missing the point. They were warned their product was not safe for consumption. They knew full and well someone could be seriously hurt and they kept selling it at that temperature. It was hot enough that it would have caused burns to the mouth and throat had it been drunk black. So yes they were responsible for her being hurt! There was no God damned reason for her to wind up with third degree burns from a cup of coffee!
b Dey She didn’t pour it on herself- she spilled it and she admitted that. McDonald’s even agreed with her that it was dangerous to serve a beverage at that temperature. Also- that makes no sense- her legs are burned so badly they fuse together, yet drinking it somehow mitigates that? What if that was your child or friend who was hospitalized? You’d probably somehow find the empathy to realize that she didn’t make the hazard, what if that was your 79 year old grandma in the hospital..? Over a stupid little coffee spill? When you buy a coffee the expectation is that it’s hot- not broiling. The jury even agreed- she didn’t even go out of her way to sue, but McDonald’s agreed to pay for medical bills but gave $800 when there was a total of $20,000 dollars worth of procedures to get her skin back. You don’t drink the coffee while it’s boiling- do you? If so, then you’re Superman. Gatekeeping coffee is a really weird way of discrediting someone- I don’t usually order coffee at a drive through. I just brew it myself, so I know the risks.
“At that point, Nick, a lawyer...” Meh, go figure
Exactly. This was more about a lawyer getting his name out there, than a father doing something for his kid.
@@finkelmana Wow, I don't know why I didn't even think of that. Totally makes sense now.
E Mansini dzhoos
OMG a sports game and from LJN of all companies, that poor kid got schooled early!
My gosh this is like suing the writers of a cartoon because the plot didn't go where you wanted it to. XD
I was 8 in 1990. I should have sued them for the crappy WWF games.
Wrestlemania Challenge was pretty decent
Getting WWF Steele Cage was a big disappoinment for my birthday! 😭
But one year later we'd get the Wrestlefest arcade game from Technos.
Yeh they have wwf game
Yeah I don't understand why people praise those games
That dude is 38 now... Would've been amazing if you chatted with him for a bit.
VoLiTioNvx He went to Princeton
@@daytonasayswhat9333 Yes well Strange thing that this guy goes to private school and has a lawyer Daddy unlike most whom have no DAD and so he collected cans like a fucking hobo to buy a video game 🤔
@@damienhartley3222 dude most people do have a dad that's how your born
I took it as dad making him earn his own money for games as a way to instill personal responsibility in him at a young age.
Damien Hartley What’s your point? Maybe take just a moment to read it with you right down sometimes and try to make it a bit more clear. This is pretty unintelligible.
This guy's a kind dad ngl
Thanks for suing LJN Nick, Avgn would be proud.
Should’ve sued only LJN. They mess up everything
Except Nintendo gave that game its seal of approval, so the lawsuit applied to them, too, as well as MLB.
And the result would've been the same, anyway.
WHAT A SHIT LOAD OF FUCK
When you sue someone, you go after everyone. You let the court decide who's at fault.
The game box never explicitly said “Play as any famous mlb player you want”
Polly the Bird explicitly is a whole different word my mans
ikr
Well he was 9 9yr olds are pretty dumb
the sour cookie Says the person with the run on sentence.
Exactly
This is like suing your dvd player manufacturer because the movie you bought was bad
the person that illustrated this video is amazing!
"At that point, Nick,"
Me: *pfft no way this daddy gonna sue ninte-*
"a lawyer,"
Me: *suprised pikachu face*
Came across this comment the exact moment that he said this
A dumbass lawyer. Sorry but damn. What kind of grown adult thinks that lawsuit would have worked? Doofus. I bet his son didn't even want or play the game, he was just one of those people looking for a reason to sue.
trainz 4460 productions Same bro.
Kid: " why doesn't the roster of a 1988 game have the real life player lineup of 1990?"
Lol was he expecting magical updates via his phone line or something? Boy, that'll be the dsy
You can though! For only 59.99 per year!
@@D0ntTaseM3Br0 that's only a small price to pay compared to the whopping $10 a month payments Xbox and Playstation offer.
You kids and your sci-fi pipe dreams.
Next you'll tell me that I can play muh interactive stories with anyone in the world with some sort of invisible magic instead of having an actual person next to me.
As if a 9 year old would know when a video game was developed and published?
They could have recalled the game's copies just to update it, but that would have been really annoying for obvious reasons if they were to do that every single year.
It’s funny, my first baseball video game as a kid was Ken Griffey Jr Presents MLB on SNES. I remember learning the roster for my favorite team from the game, and being confused when none of those players were playing when I saw the real thing.
i’ve watched this at least 7 times and still find it funny
So... wait... they buy a game with a 1988 copyright date and somehow expect a trade to be included that took place in 1989...?
That should be grounds enough to throw the case out for wasting the courts’ time...
It was a nine year old, what did you expect
Even now, thirty years later, sports games don't get roster updates after a year.
@@NilesTheRobot The lawyer wasn't nine years old.... Not making that silly claim, even if a client wants to, is part of a lawyer's job.
+Joshua Pearce No, the child was 9 years old.
@@SawyerIque And the child had an adult lawyer, you obstinate nitwit.
Jesus Christ this video is only 5:55 minutes long but it feels like an eternity, lmao!
Ikr
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@@leighdappa ha that's funny! Nothing and nobody can destroy the game hostorian
My dad would smack and say in Spanish “jerk I payed money for that and your gonna complain instead of being thankful? Play it unless you want me to break your PlayStation”
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The Angry Video Game Nerd is having PTSD from the mere mention of LJN.
Aka when you have a cheapskate father, and they would rather sue then take a $40 hit.
Kid literally had to save trash for years to buy this, and his dad is a lawyer? He wouldn’t buy a game for his son but he will launch an expensive lawsuit that cost him 10x over. Makes sense.
Maybe he wanted to teach his son to stand up to shady business practices? Even if the reason they sued was kinda stupid I can see the logic
it shows the old generation viewed video game consoles as a stupidly expensive toy, they think they're teaching their kids a lesson about wasting money, when really they're just inspiring their kids to get an after school job, ignore their studies, and buy that new video game console
Gol D. Roger or it could just be your typical responsible parent that still cared about teaching their kids that only through hard work could u achieve any goals in life instead of just spoiling him by just throwing some cash at him and neglecting to do your job as a parent/ life mentor
@@shamansprout4394 yo this was what I thought was normal everywhere
40 dollars went further in 1989
I love the gaming historian. I often listen to these videos on bike rides
It only takes 31 seconds to find out what its all about:
LJN
I can't beleive nobody sue Ubisoft, Capcom and EA games at this moment
You’re kidding right? Please say you’re kidding
D:
Mental note:
Never look at the cover in old games.
Never look at the trailer of new games, expecially from ubisoft, unless it's stated
I like those illustrations, great job
LMAO @1:55 = "at that point Nick, a lawyer...." SHOCKING!!! the brat's dad was an attorney well gosh WHO could've seen that coming? lolol