Things weren’t going well, and somehow her minions knew to go pick this random flower, put it some water, and make the lady drink it. And it wasn’t there because a queen in a far off kingdom was having a difficult pregnancy. We don’t know how she found the magical flower or how she knew to sing to it, but it makes me wonder… did this old woman just go around singing to flora until something responded? Also, if she was so into botany, why didn’t she ever consider potting this flower and taking it home with her?Īnyway, she visited the flower frequently, maybe even on the daily basis, until one day it wasn’t there anymore. All she had to do was go to the flower, which she hid under a fake shrub, probably purchased at her local Home Depot, and sing to it. Long before Rapunzel was even a glimmer in her parents’ eyes, the witch, also known as Mother Gothel, was using a flower made from a pure drop of sunlight to stay young forever. The trouble begins and ends with a magical flower.
“How could this possibly be?” you may be asking. That reality being: she is stuck with the same haircut. However, it’s nothing compared to the fate Rapunzel must have faced mere weeks after being reunited with her possibly-mute parents. We know she was a princess stolen by an evil, Cher-doppelganger witch and how she was forced to live in a tower and let her long, magical hair grow to uncomfortable lengths, and sure, that’s a pretty tragic life. We have all seen Disney’s adaptation of the classic story Rapunzel in the 2010 film Tangled. But what if there was a princess who didn’t get to live happily ever after? What if there was one whose real tragedy began after the credits had already rolled? Well, guess what. After, came Cinderella with the chores, curfew, and abnormal shoe size that ultimately led her to her prince with a little help from a fairy godmother who came out of literally nowhere, and despite a few straight-to-DVD sequels, everything was good with her too.īeauty got her beast, Ariel got her prince and the ability to wear pants, and more recently, Elsa stayed single but got to live without fear or ever having to sweat, which is every modern girl’s dream. It’s a pattern seen across the board.įirst, there was Snow White, you know, the fairest of them all, who was the victim of some girl-on-girl, fruit-related hate crimes, seemingly died for a moment, but was rescued by a prince who may have had a touch of necrophilia, and then all was grand. They begin with a girl who has a problem then she meets a prince who somehow, usually obliviously, fixes it, and then she becomes a princess and everything is a-okay all the way into the sunset of the future. Here are 30 of those classics.If there is one thing we catch onto early in life, besides crying to get attention and candy being the most universal currency in existence, it’s that Disney Princess movies always end with a happily ever after. So what about the other games? As well as the classics everyone remembers, such as the recently remastered Spyro franchise, there were many more games which everyone played but most people have forgotten. These include The Elder Scrolls, Grand Theft Auto, and Warcraft franchises as well as the Mario Kart and Mario Party series. Many popular gaming franchises also began in the ’90s and are still running now. The end of the decade also saw the beginnings of online gaming support with online capabilities becoming standard on newer consoles. In terms of the games themselves the first person shooter, real-time strategy, survival-horror, and MMO genres were born in the ’90s. Much of the technology introduced in the 1990s still underpins the games of today.
Game graphics and sound both made huge leaps over this period and we also saw the introduction of the first analog stick and haptic feedback functionality in a controller. It truly was a remarkable time for gaming.
These consoles included the Sega Genesis and later the Dreamcast, Nintendo’s Gameboy and N64 and the Sony PlayStation. It also marked the period in which arcade games began to decline in popularity as home consoles became more common and more affordable. The introduction of discs instead of cartridges also meant games became much bigger and more detailed.
It was the time in which games made the leap from sprite-based graphics to full 3D graphics. The 1990s was a decade which yielded many innovations in gaming.