The Knockoffs You Actually Grew Up On

Somebody stood in an aisle, looked at the price of the real thing, looked at the price of the thing beside it, and quietly made a decision on your behalf. That decision is the memory you still have. A Nintendo with a cartoon elephant on the box that Nintendo eventually signed off on. A handheld that advertised 9,999 games and had about twelve. An Aladdin that Disney took to federal court and lost against. Seven knockoffs that an entire generation remembers better than the originals, and why that is not the sad version of nostalgia.