It should be “playing with Nintendo” instead of “playing Nintendo” toe be fair. To be honest, “playing with Nintendo cards” would be the most accurate, but “with Nintendo” is still accurate enough and still gives the sentence the desired effect. But no, “playing Nintendo” isn’t correct. Unless they made some specific game variant and included the rules with their cards or something.
Guy who invited his friends over to play Nintendo, and when they arrive pulls out a deck of hanafuda cards.
He would be playing hanafuda, which is the Japanese card game that Nintendo was producing at that time. Not as funny as imagining Dracula trying to beat Ninja Gaiden or whatever.
Was that a general game or something they designed? If it’s something they made “playing Nintendo” works.
I’m really overanalyzing this joke, it’s funny either way, obviously.
They’re traditional Japanese playing cards. They existed for centuries before Nintendo.
Fun fact: Nintendo still makes these! (Although they might be hard to find, because I think they’re only sold in Japan.)
They probably said either the name of a specific game or “playing karuta”, which is a word derived from the Portuguese word for card (carta).
Well, did they have their own proprietary game for their cards? Or were they just making poker cards?
That’s the question I’m asking!
Hanafuda
Samurai at this point were samurai true, but mostly just office workers at this point. Not exactly the armored warriors most people would think of as a samurai.
Where would the pirates be from? Golden age of piracy had long past in Europe afaik. Or are we just being amorphous with the fact there are always pirates?
I think that’s your B story right there, the fact that they’re all misfits, too out of step with their times, driven by a wild yearning and a sense of romanticism. The movie itself is 0% anachronistic, but the protagonist are anachronistic in spirit.
Dracula meanwhile as a villain represents postmodernism, apathy, and the banality of evil. He’s ironic, sleek, with it - a Londoner par excellence, rich and idle, but his life is a living death, figuratively as well as the whole undead thing.
The third act sees the protagonists combine their fighting styles excellently, but without avail. However, their foolhardy spirit and absurd heroism inspires Dracula to an inner awakening, and they come to an understanding in the end.
Post credits stinger: Van Helsing and Captain Ahab combine forces to take down a were-whale.
Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai
Dracula’s always been the ultimate baddy
… and we thought present day action films were over the top.
This is not how time works
You mean Dracula didn’t exist 😰?!
Not remotely what I meant, no.
Woosh…
Not a woosh. You just said a dumb thing that was irrelevant to what I said.
Um…what?
Time doesn’t work like that.
And they could all coordinate by fax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#History
Whoa.
always check the comments… that’s wild yo 🧙♀️
He could have done it all in Katz’s Deli, opened 1888. At that point, the house band could’ve been rocking out on Zildjian cymbals that were already 250+ years old.
Now you’re telling me that Dracula keeps Kosher??
Consuming blood is not kosher!
Well Katz’s doesn’t serve blood. Clearly he’s there for a delicious corned beef sandwich.
It’s actually why he sucks the blood out first like that.
the house band could’ve been rocking out on Zildjian cymbals that were already 250+ years old.
Yeah, the mehter takımı would have gone hard. What is this, Yahşi batı?
A reminder that there is an actual wild west gun slinger (sort of) in Dracula. He’s the perfect stereotype of a Texan cowboy.
Also an invitation to our Dracula bookclub in !vampires@lemmy.zip.
A Texas what? Oh, cowboy.
Like a vacero not like a youthful minotaur though
Pirates are still a thing, they just don’t look cool anymore.
TBF, I think movies made old pirates look a lot cooler than they really were.
Amen. Ain’t nothin’ cool about scurvy.
TBF, you probably also got scurvy if you were a regular sailor. If anything, pirates had an easier time because they don’t have to go on intercontinental voyages, and caribbean pirates also had a huge leg up over sailors who were active in arctic regions.
If you look at old drawings and depictions, they do look like we know them, but they may have been embellished even then. But Hollywood didn’t invent the image.
Shocker: movies are inaccurate.
Every time I hear the Samurai, Cowboy and Pirates thing, I get upset that Pirates, Vikings and Knights didn’t get a second sequel or spinoff using Cowboys and Samurai instead of Vikings and Knights.
Çowboys V. Zombie Samurai sounds awesome
This is such a good “Well, yes, but actually no” factoid. Coke back then was a medicinal drink with cocaine as the active ingredient. Nintendo originally made playing cards. Jeans probably would have repelled Dracula in the source text since they are associated with the working poor.
Coke was originally among many other “tonics” pushed back in the day, but it also wasn’t marketed under the name Coca-Cola while it was sold as a patent medicine tonic. It also was only was sold in that form for a few months before being made nonalcoholic and marketed as a beverage later that same year. Sales were initially poor and only picked up with aggressive advertising campaigns, which I suppose is a strategy that Coke never left behind and leads us to the world where we are today.
Still coulda drank a coke and “played nintendo”.
Yes, but a coked out, hanafuda playing Yakuza dracula would be terrifying.
A gun-slinger, a samurai and a pirate fighting Dracula? What is this, the new JoJo?
The samurai wouldn’t even have a range disadvantage, since they very eagerly adopted firearms
They also were primarily archers
And nothing much has changed since, just more, more jeans, more coke, more blood suckers
