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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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Apparently the story goes that this 20-25 year old bottle was found in 2016(?), which went viral online, and Nintendo wound up sending the guy an unopened SNES anyway. (Plus a bunch of other stuff)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I worked in a grocery store during these promotions. Only the winning bottles had anything printed under the cap, so you could hold an unopened bottle up to the light to see. If you saw text, it was a winner, and I would stash those in the beer cooler for break time.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know you could peek under the cap that way, but I also recall caps that said "Sorry, try again" or something like that. Maybe those "not a winner" messages were added as a response?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Exactly right. It got harder, but not impossible to detect winners once they made that change.