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I've haven't dressed up for Halloween for quite some time, but now I'm a father. So now I have license to do all kinds of funs stuff again.

My one year old daughter and I are going to dress up as Kenpachi and Yachiru from Bleach.

Mega Man 2
Simon's Quest
Blaster Master
Contra
Bionic Commando
Crystalis
Life Force
Ninja Gaiden
Metroid

"See, all I think is that when most people ages 12-30 hear the word anime, they think of some Japanese cartoon with a very cult audience. When they think of video games, they don't think of it as nerdy because most of them have played some. And since they play them - their parents know about this, and they in turn don't see it as nerdy."

"The problem with going by economics is that anime/manga does not generally produce many profits. Most people bit torrent and watch episodes online, or on their TV, and do not fuel DVD sales or any actually measurable gauge."

General Public changes where you live.  In NYC (where I grew up) your considered "odd" if your a male teenager or young adult (20s) and you don't play video games.  However in places like middle america where technology itself is almost non-existent they might consider someone a geek/nerd/whatever if they play video games.

Anime on the other hand.  I watch it.  I watch Bleach and when I was younger I watched Cowboy Bebop and Dragonball Z.  I wouldn't call myself a fan (people that obsess over it).  From what I notice here people really don't care if you watch it and they don't call you a geek/nerd just because you watch it.  Like I said though it changes where you are.

Also I wouldn't compare video games to anime.  Video games aren't like they were.  Its a form of entertainment with a industry worth more then the movie industry.  Making it the biggest form of Entertainment in America.  Anime to put bluntly is just a form of a cartoon from japan thats usually has strong mature tones.

I remember that episode.

Man that was all the way back in 2005?

Robot Jox or Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War

Transformers
Voltron
Tranzor Z
GI Joe
Turbo Teen
The Jetsons
The Flinstones

Straw man fallacy. Read my post again. I said that's what the GENERAL PUBLIC PERCEPTION is.

The general public perception of video games has distanced itself from the nerds and kids more so than anime has. That's what I'm saying, and if you don't believe it, so be it.

Watch your mouth.

Video games definitely do not that same perception [to the same extent] anymore. On the other hand, the general public perception of anime is that it's a childish cartoon and nerd hobby. At least in America, that's how it is.

I play games more or less for the gameplay. Video games often do have trivial themes, but anime, as a non-interactive media, has far more emphasis on this aspect.