Do you think people who watched Universal Century Gundam shows as they aired had no idea what was going on? These shows can be heavy on continuity. Today, we have DVDs and streaming to catch-up. But back then, there was nothing. If you missed an ep, you were shit out of luck. I think people were just watching for the mech fights.

>zoomer can't imagine a world without streaming

Bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p45T7U5oi9Q [Embed]

More like zoomers can't imagine. As in zero imagination. If you missed an episode you just had to imagine what happened. Not to mention the various forms of print media that offered schedules and synopsis. I know the age of the magazine is nearly over but surely kids can infer they existed in the 70's and 80's too. Also, how heavily rerun shows were and how long movies stayed in the theater and also came back to the theater. 

For the record, the first Video Rental shop opened in the US in 1977, and even my relatively poor family had a programable VCR in 1984. There were both pre-internet Bulletin Boards for info and mail order catalogues for sending blank tapes to get shows dubbed on. Not to mention the rental market was starting to build some serious steam in the early 80's. 

In 1979 yeah, you would have had to been pretty well off to have a VHS/BETA deck at your house. But that's really it. Consumer electronics got cheaper fast.

>>21691234 (OP)

>have nearly the entire information of the modern world at the palm of your hands

>still can't use google

what went wrong with underage b&amp;s today?

>>21691234 (OP)



People used to talk about shows in real life together too.

>>21691234 (OP)

>These shows can be heavy on continuity.

Have you even watched these shows. Almost all of them are robot of the week with a loosely connected overarching plot. You could miss the Amuro-running-away episode one week and you would be none the wiser that Amuro had run away because it's barely ever mentioned again.

>>21691234 (OP)

He asked about original Gundam, though, that was before that, in 1974.

Nevertheless when I was a kid if I missed an episode in TV (we didn't have VCR at home) I'd just ask a friend what happened.

>>21691234 (OP)

Headcanon and small circle of friends discussing theories explaining the continuity, sharing recorded vhs, etc must have been the usual compared to nowadays wikias, youtube compilations, etc. Now is easier sure but is not like 30 years ago people didn't have means, fuck I bet blockbuster (or similar depending on country) had vhs with the episodes, also motherfucking reruns, didn't gundam 0079 done poorly on the release but after the model kits they threw a couple of reruns and performed amazing?

>>21691234 (OP)

They used to record the shows.

Yeah, that's the key moment right there, when your friends filled you in and embellished the story too, to be more awesome than it really was.
