Super Smash Brothers Ultimate - the boys are back in town

"Oh how the Japanese school children used to skip school days to play with these boys for da-"
"SPONGEBOB, Would you forget that the Japanese opinion matters?! Can't you see they made the worst roster choices? They gave us Chrom, and he was nothing but an echo, now you seriously expect me to believe there's merit in-"
Spongebob proceeds to run over Squidward with the gameplay trailer of Hero
"…Hero's moveset? HOLD ON THERE JETHRO!"

(The skipping school days part? actually true.)

It wasn't just the school children. Even adults would skip work to play it. The Japanese government started forcing them to release Dragon Quest on weekends just to prevent the nation's productivity from slowing down so significantly.