{"id":11435,"date":"2025-07-15T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11435\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:45:03","slug":"bbc-recently-covered-the-rise-of-retro-gaming-see-if-you-can-spot-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11435\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Recently Covered The Rise Of Retro Gaming – See If You Can Spot The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBC<\/a> Image: BBC<\/p>\n

Yesterday, BBC Breakfast published a video report on the booming interest in retro games, featuring an interview with UKIE CEO Prof. Nick Poole OBE.<\/p>\n

But the segment hasn’t exactly gone over well online, with most people ignoring the content of the piece itself and instead being fixated on a clear and obvious error with the arrangement of the props brought in to illustrate the report (thanks VGC<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In case you somehow miraculously didn’t spot it from the lead image of this article, during the segment, the somehow made the mistake of inserting a Super Mario Bros.<\/a> NES cart into an SNES \u2014 a move that slightly ended up undermining the retro credibility of the report and sparked a ton of reactions online on Twitter\/X<\/a>, Reddit<\/a>, LinkedIn<\/a>, and BlueSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Crime spotted on BBC Breakfast this morning…” wrote Chris Brandrick, the editor of Nintendo Switch newsletter Switch Weekly<\/a>, sharing an image of the segment on BlueSky.<\/p>\n

crime spotted on BBC Breakfast this morning…<\/p>\n

\u2014 Chris Brandrick (@brandrick.bsky.social)<\/a> 2025-07-14T11:19:02.316Z<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, another person<\/a> commented in reply, “To gamers this is as egregious as trying to play a DVD on a record player.”<\/p>\n

Following the report, a spokesperson for UKIE ended up clarifying how this mistake came to be, telling VGC that though Poole provided the props, he wasn’t the one responsible for setting them up.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor transparency, the studio team set up the in-studio display independently and handled the placement of the consoles \u2013 unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t adjust it whilst on air,” the spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n

To give the benefit of the doubt, it’s possible that this wasn’t a case of the BBC studio team misunderstanding the difference between the NES and SNES, but simply someone improvising a way to prop up the cart to better show off the game’s label and underestimating people’s capacity for pointing out errors.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full report here<\/a> (the segment appears at 1hr 48m 49s).<\/p>\n

[source bbc.co.uk<\/a>, via bsky.app<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"Previous<\/a><\/p>\n

Prev<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Next<\/a><\/p>\n

Next <\/a><\/p>\n

\"Jack<\/p>\n

Hailing from Manchester, Jack has a particular fondness for point-and-click adventure games. In the past, he\u2019s written about lost games from studios like Sony Manchester, Genepool Software, and DMA Design, and has made a habit of debunking video game rumours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: BBC Yesterday, BBC Breakfast published a video report on the booming interest in retro games, featuring an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8827,3,11378,74,11377],"class_list":["post-11435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-bbc","tag-news","tag-retro","tag-technology","tag-time-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}